The main references to Jesus’ brothers and sisters in the New Testament are found in the episode of Jesus’ visit to “his own country” (Mk 6:1–3): “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” Cf. Mt 13:55–56, which has a slightly different formulation. See also Mk 3:32; Mt 12:46. The Johannine tradition mentions