they left.

Mark 10:29
"Truly I tell you, " said Jesus, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

Deuteronomy 33:9
He said of his father and mother, 'I do not consider them.' He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for they kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

1 Kings 19:20
So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, "Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you." "Go on back, " Elijah replied, "for what have I done to you?"

Matthew 4:21, 22
Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Jesus called them, . . .

Matthew 8:21, 22
Another of His disciples requested, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." . . .

Matthew 10:37
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be My disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16
So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.