Luke 8:20
Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.
Cross References
Matthew 13:55Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary [Rebellion], and his brothers, James [Surplanter], Joses, Simeon [Hearing], and Judas [Praised]?
John 7:3+ 7:3 (3-5) MP: Messiah is refused to be associated with even by his own siblings, children of the same mother. (Ps 69:8b) His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea [Praise], that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
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 →