What did Jesus say about loneliness?

The pattern in the gospels is that Jesus keeps going toward the people no one else will sit with. A man with leprosy who has not been touched in years. A woman at a well at noon, which is the hour you draw water when you are avoiding everyone. A tax collector in a tree. He does not fix their loneliness with advice. He closes the distance.

In Mark 3 someone tells him his mother and brothers are outside. He looks around at the people sitting with him and says these are my mother and brothers. Whoever does what God wants is family. He is redefining belonging away from bloodline and toward shared direction.

In John 14 he promises he will not leave his followers as orphans. That is a specific word. Not alone, not unsupported. Orphaned. He is naming the exact fear.

And then in Gethsemane he is honest about his own need. He tells his closest friends that his soul is crushed, and he asks them to stay with him. They fall asleep. He asks again. This is a man who understands being alone in the worst hour, from the inside.