Verse 14 Mary the mother of Jesus. From this time Mary the mother of Jesus disappears from the sacred history.--And with his brethren. On the catalogue of the apostles there are three names, James, and Simon, and Judas, corresponding with three of the names used in and in Mark 6:37 to designate what are there called the brethren of Jesus. These individuals may have been the same, though the statement made in John 7:5, that his brethren did not believe on him, and the manner in which they are spoken of here, as distinct from the apostles, indicate that different individuals were intended in these two cases. The names were very common names among the Jews. A more full account of the state of this question is given in the introductory remarks to the Epistle of James.