Luke 8:20

And someone said to him, Your mother and your brothers are outside desiring to see you.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

In Context

19And his mother and his brothers came to him, and they were not able to get near him because of the great number of people.

21But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:55Is not this the woodworker's son? is not his mother named Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

John 7:3So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

1 Corinthians 9:5Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Matthew Henry on Luke 8:5-22

The Parable of the Sower. 4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and… Read the whole commentary →

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