Luke 8:21
But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
20So some people told him, “Yoʋr mother and yoʋr brothers are standing outside, wanting to see yoʋ.”
Cross References
Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 25:40The King will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Matthew 28:10Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
Luke 11:27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman from among the crowd lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore yoʋ, and the breasts at which yoʋ nursed.”
John 13:17Now that you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
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 →