27-Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into (AS)his own household.
I think the real issue is who has MORE honor?
Jesus for Mary as his mother.
Or Mary for Jesus as Messiah
and HER SAVIOR of her sins.
Who does God the Father attribute more honor?
I can see where Catholics could see this verse as a universal statement of the Motherhood of Mary. But I believe it was specific in time to John. Otherwise, this universal principal would have been mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament - but it is nowhere to be found in the teachings of Paul, Peter, or John.
“Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Agreed?
But why does that preclude honouring the mother of the Lord as He would?