Luke 8:20

And it was told Him by some saying, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

Family 35 New Testament

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

19Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and they could not get near Him because of the crowd.

21But in answer He said to them, “My mother and my brothers are these, the ones who hear the word of God and do it!”

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Cross References

Matthew 13:55Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joses and Simon and Jude?

John 7:3So His brothers said to Him: “Leave here and go up into Judea so your disciples also may see the works that you are doing,

1 Corinthians 9:5Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers 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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