Luke 8:18
So pay attention how you ‘hear.’ To those who have received, more will be given; from those who don't receive, even what they think they have will be taken away!”
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19Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived, but they couldn't get through the crowd to see him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:46he told them, “Think about all these words I've declared to you today, so you can order your children to follow carefully everything in this law.
Proverbs 14:12There's a way that seems to be right, but in the end it's the way of death.
Matthew 13:12“Those who already have will have more given to them, more than enough. But those who don't have, whatever they have will be taken away from them.
Mark 4:23If you have ears to hear, listen to what I'm saying!
Luke 9:44“Listen carefully to what I'm telling you: the Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”
Luke 16:2So the rich man called in his manager, and asked him, ‘What's this I hear about you? Bring in your accounts, because you won't be continuing as manager.’
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 →