After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
And his brethren. Why the brethren of Christ accompanied him, cannot be determined with certainty, unless, perhaps, they intended to go along with him to Jerusalem. The word brethren, it is well known, is employed, in the Hebrew language, to denote cousins and other relatives. 