Luke 8:20
Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
World English 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.
21But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
Cross References
Matthew 13:55Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
John 7:3His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
1 Corinthians 9:5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as 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 →