5) to occasionally remind Christians that Jesus’s extended family members are sometimes a detriment to the church, sometimes a help, even if there is a far more negative image of them in Mark’s Gospel due to the ongoing battle for control between Jesus’s mainly non-familial appointed successors and those who are known in the Gospels’, Hegessipus’s, and Eusebius’s (around 300 AD) histories; namely, family members who tried to ride on the coattails of Jesus’s fame in order to wield power, influence, and gain from the first-century church.[37]
