Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
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Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
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And they tolde him sayinge: Thy mother and thy brethren stonde with out and wolde se the.
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And it was tolde him by certaine which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee.
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Passages linked to Luke 8:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 13:55-56 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”
- Mark 6:3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.
- John 7:3-6 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.” For even his brothers didn’t believe in him. Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
- Acts 1:14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Have 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?
- Galatians 1:19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 20 And it was told him by certain which…
20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
Ver. 20. See Mat 12:46; Mar 3:31.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Poole on "Luk 8:19"
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he answered and said unto them,.... Not to…
And he answered and said unto them,.... Not to his mother and brethren, but to those that told him of them, who either designed to reproach him with them, by reason of the meanness of them, or to interrupt him in his work:
my mother and my brethren are these; pointing to his disciples:
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which hear the word of God; which he had been preaching, and was meant by the seed in the preceding parable:
and do it; behave in their lives and conversations agreeably to it; and observe the precepts and ordinances in it; elsewhere called the will of God his Father; See Gill on Mat 12:49. See Gill on Mat 12:50.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain These brethren were not the sons of the blessed…
These brethren were not the sons of the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, as Helvidius wickedly taught; nor yet the sons of Joseph, by another wife; for, as St. Jerome writeth, not only Mary, but Joseph also, observed virginity. (Contra Helvidium, chap. ix. et ibidem, chap. viii.) --- In the scriptural idiom, cousins are called brethren. (Bristow)
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) It was told him by certain which said,…
(20) It was told him by certain which said, . . .—Better, more simply, it was told Him. Looking to the greater fulness of St. Mark’s report, we may, perhaps, infer that this was one of the facts which St. Luke learnt from St. Mark when they met at Rome. (See Introduction.)
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