teaches, “For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother” (Matt 12:50). Furthermore, he warns his followers that everyone who “acknowledges” him (Jesus) before others will be “acknowledged” by Jesus before his Father in heaven, but whoever denies him will also be denied (10:32–33). He has authority directly from his Father (11:27), and “no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal