 | THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (6:1-3)
Jesus . . . came to his hometown . . . On the Sabbath he began to to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, "Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? (See further Matthew 12:46-50 & Luke 8:19-21)
|  | THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (3:20-21)
And his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting about him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."
| | ST. PAUL GALATIANS 1:18-19
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother. | | ST. PAUL
1 CORINTHIANS
9:4-6
This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to our food and drink? Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? |
ST. PAUL
1 CORINTHIANS 15:5-7
He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. | JOSEPHUS
ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS:
The Judges of the Sanhedrin . . . brought before them a man named James, the brother of Jesus, who was callled the Christ . . .
| EUSEBIUS (BISHOP OF CAESAREA),
THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH:
Then there was James, who was called the Lord's brother; for he too was named Joseph's son. . . . This James, whom the people of old called the Just because of his outstanding virtue, was the first, as the records tell us, to be elected to the Episcopal throne of the Jerusalem church.
| CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA:
After the ascension of the Savior, Peter, James, and John, did not claim pre-eminence . . . but chose James the Just as bishop of Jersualem.
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