Luke 8:21
And he answered and said: My mother and my brothers, are they who hear the word of God, and do it.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
20And they say to him: Thy mother and thy brothers stand without, and wish to see thee.
Cross References
Matthew 7:21Not whoever may say to me, My Lord, my Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 25:40And the king will answer, and say to them: Verily I Say to you, That inasmuch as ye did so to one of these my little brothers, ye did so to me.
Matthew 28:10Then Jesus said to them: Be not afraid; but go, tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there they will see me.
Luke 11:27And while he was saying these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifted up her voice, and said to him: Blessed is the womb that carried thee, and the breasts that nursed thee.
John 13:17If ye know these things, happy will ye be if ye do them.
John 20:17Jesus said to her: Touch me not; for not yet have I ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and your Father, and 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 →