Luke 8:20
But some one told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
19There came to him his mother and his brothers, and they could not reach him because of the crowd.
21"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."
Cross References
Matthew 13:55"Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers Jamesand Joseph and Simon and Judas?
John 7:3his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.
1 Corinthians 9:5Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Peter 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 →