The expression "brother of the Lord" evidently constituted, in the primitive Church, a kind of order similar to that of the apostles.

See especially 1 _Cor._ ix.

5.] [Footnote 7: _Acts_ i.

14.] His sisters were married at Nazareth,[1] and he spent the first years of his youth there.

Nazareth was a small town in a hollow, opening broadly at the summit of the group of mountains which close the plain of Esdraelon on the north.