".. how tenderly our Lord took thought for Mary, His mother." JC Ryle

"Now there stood by the Cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.



When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He loved, He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son!
Then said He to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home." John 19:25-27





"We are told that even in the awful agonies of body and mind which our Lord endured, He did not forget her of whom He was born. He mercifully remembered her desolate condition and the crushing effect of the sorrowful sight before her. ... He therefore commended her to the protection of His best-loved and best-loving disciple, ...
Let us take comfort in the thought that we have in Jesus a Saviour of matchless tenderness, matchless sympathy, matchless consideration for the condition of His believing people.
Let us never forget His words, "Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is My brother, and My sister, and mother." (Mark 3:35) -Bishop John Charles Ryle