[kosta50]

Taking into account that Jesus' brethren were not believers at this point; ... while Mary and John were, ... and of the sharp divide in the Jewish community that belief on Jesus caused, ... it is not at all unfathomable that the two groups (believers and unbelievers) ... would choose to go their own way

So, you are saying that her own "children" didn't love Mary as their "mother" because they didn't share her belief, and abandoned her? Wow!

[Quester]

So, you are saying that her own "children" didn't love Mary as their "mother" because they didn't share her belief, and abandoned her? Wow!

There is no lasting fellowship between believers and unbelievers ...

2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

[Blogger]

Kosta. Go to an Orthodox Jewish family today and have one convert to Christianity. Jesus may have been seen as an evil criminal by his lost siblings. Plus, you have to remember - ALL OF THE APOSTLES ran and only John is seen at the foot of the cross. It wouldn't have been so much an abandonment of Mary as it would have been of Jesus.