And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (adelphōn | ἀδελφῶν | gen pl masc) (a crowd of people, about a hundred and twenty, had gathered together), and said,
These all were devoting themselves with a single purpose to prayer, with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers (adelphois | ἀδελφοῖς | dat pl masc).
So the word spread among the believers (adelphous | ἀδελφούς | acc pl masc) that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but rather, “If I should want him to remain alive until I come back, what concern is that to you?”
Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers (adelphous | ἀδελφούς | acc pl masc) and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother (adelphos | ἀδελφός | nom sg masc) would not have died.”
It was this Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother (adelphos | ἀδελφός | nom sg masc) Lazarus was ill.
However, when his brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | nom pl masc) had gone up to the festival, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly, but as it were, in private.
