See comments at verse 40. Here the text has simply one of the least of these and does not mention “brothers.” Translators usually say “one of these least important people.” Barclay has “one of these, even for the least of them.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .