Luke 8:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he answered and said unto them,My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it. ”

• Luke 8:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See the notes at Matthew 12:46-50 .

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• Luke 8:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Intervention of Jesus-' Family ( Mark 3:31-35 *, Matthew 12:46-50 *). Lk. abbreviates and softens. The influence of the parable of the Sower is seen in Luke 8:21 .

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• Luke 8:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  answered and said . See note on Deuteronomy 1:41 unto. Greek. pros. App-104. Not the same word as in Luke 8:22 . do . are doing.

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• Luke 8:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

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• Luke 8:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 12:46-50 .

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• Luke 8:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Parable of the Sower. The Demoniac of Gadara 1-3. Tours through Galilee. The ministering women (peculiar to Lk).

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• Luke 8:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (19-21) Then came to him his mother and his brethren. — See Notes on Matthew 12:46-50 , and Mark 3:31-35 . There cannot be any doubt that we have in those passages a report of the same incident;...

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• Luke 8:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Hearing; Doing; Believing Luke 8:16-25 Inconsistency, unkindly words and acts, disobedience to our known duty will prevent our light from shining. If Christ has illumined your wick, see that yo...

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• Luke 8:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Luke here refers to our Lord's journeyings, and reveals the interesting and beautiful fact of how women of wealth provided for him on the material level, ministering to Him of their substance. At th...

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• Luke 8:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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 i...

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• Luke 8:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 i...

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• Luke 8:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it. Ver. 21. See Matthew 12:46 ; Mark 3:31 .

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• Luke 8:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then came to him his mother , &c. See the notes on Matthew 12:46-50 ; and on Mark 3:31 . My mother and my brethren are they which hear the word of God and do it In these words we have an imp...

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• Luke 8:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  WOMEN PROVIDING FOR THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-3) The grace of the heart of the Lord Jesus must be made known through all the country, though not yet in its fullness, nor as resulting from the value of...

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• Luke 8:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  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 para...

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• Luke 8:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Luke 8:20 "

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• Luke 8:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus' Mother and Brothers Come To Hinder Him (8:19-21). Luke gives no explanation as to why Jesus' mother and brothers come seeking Him, but the fact that they are left on ‘the outside' says all...

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• Luke 8:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 8:19-21 .—St. Luke gives this incident as occurring after the parable of the sower, though without any precise note of time: St. Matthew and St. Mark relate it as occurring be...

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• Luke 8:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Luke 8:1 . And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him, Our Lord's di...

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• Luke 8:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 8:2 . Mary, called Magdalene. Origen reckons three women who anointed the Saviour. The first, in the house of Simon the pharisee. Luke 7:37 . The second, the woman who anointed him six days...

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• Luke 8:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then came to Him His mother and His brethren Spiritual relationship to Christ It is the higher kinship of the soul. Christ did not set aside time relationships, but He opened up a far higher v...

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• Luke 8:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 8:1-42 St. Luke ' s brief notice of the women who formed part of the company of Jesus. Luke 8:1 And it came to pass afterward . St. Luke here notices an alteration...

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• Luke 8:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The true relatives of the Lord:

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• Luke 8:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:29 ; 1 John 3:22 ; 1 John 3:23 ; 2 Corinthians 5:16 ; 2 Corinthians 6:18 ; 3 John 1:11 ; Hebrews 2:11-13 ; James 1:22 ; John 13:17 ; John 15:14 ; John 15:15 ; John 20:17 ; John...

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