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Christian Standard Bible ®

Luke 8:21

But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fellowship;   Jesus, the Christ;   Obedience;   Thompson Chain Reference - Brethren;   Church;   Family;   Obedience;   Obedience-Disobedience;   Relationships, Spiritual;   Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Family;   Hearing;   Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Scriptures, the;   Titles and Names of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mary;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Communion (2);   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Flesh;   Marriage;   Mary, the Virgin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Evangelism;   James;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brethren;   Communion (2);   Family (Jesus);   Hearing;   James ;   Luke;   Organization (2);   Son, Sonship;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 24;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
And hee answered and said vnto them, My mother and my brethren are these which heare the word of God, and doe it.
King James Version
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
English Standard Version
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."
New American Standard Bible
But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."
New Century Version
Jesus answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and obey it!"
Amplified Bible
But He answered, "My mother and My brothers are these who listen to the word of God and do it!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."
Legacy Standard Bible
But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."
Berean Standard Bible
But He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out."
Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "My mother and my brothers are those people who hear and obey God's message."
Complete Jewish Bible
But he gave them this answer: "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's message and act on it!"
Darby Translation
But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do [it].
Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and obey it."
Geneva Bible (1587)
But he answered, and sayd vnto them, My mother and my brethren are these which heare the worde of God, and doe it.
George Lamsa Translation
He answered and said to them, These are my mother and my brothers, those who hear the word of God and do it.
Good News Translation
Jesus said to them all, "My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
Lexham English Bible
But he answered and said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers—the ones who hear the word of God and do it.
Literal Translation
And answering, He said to them, My mother and My brothers are these: the ones hearing the Word of God, and doing it.
American Standard Version
But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it.
Bible in Basic English
But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.
Hebrew Names Version
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."
International Standard Version
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."
Etheridge Translation
But he answered and said to them, These are my mother and my brethren, they who hear the word of Aloha, and do it.
Murdock Translation
And he answered and said: My mother and my brothers, are they who hear the word of God, and do it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He aunswered, and sayde vnto them: My mother & my brethren are these, which heare the worde of God, & do it.
English Revised Version
But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
World English Bible
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are these who hear the word of God and keep it.
Weymouth's New Testament
"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he answeride, and seide to hem, My modir and my britheren ben these, that heren the word of God, and doon it.
Update Bible Version
But he answered and said to them, My mother and my brothers are these that hear the word of God, and do it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are these who hear the word of God, and do it.
New English Translation
But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."
New King James Version
But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."
New Living Translation
Jesus replied, "My mother and my brothers are all those who hear God's word and obey it."
New Life Bible
Jesus said to them, "My mother and brothers are these who hear the Word of God and do it."
New Revised Standard
But he said to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, he, answering, said unto them - My mother and my brethren, are, these - they who, the word of God, are hearing and doing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who answering, said to them: My mother and my brethren are they who hear the word of God and do it.
Revised Standard Version
But he said to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
He answered and sayd vnto them: my mother and my brethren are these which heare the worde of God and do it.
Young's Literal Translation
and he answering said unto them, `My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he answered, & sayde vnto the: My mother and my brethren are these, which heare the worde of God, and do it.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but he answered them, my mother and brethren are these, who attend to the word of God, and practise it.
THE MESSAGE
He replied, "My mother and brothers are the ones who hear and do God's Word. Obedience is thicker than blood."
Simplified Cowboy Version
He answered back, "My real family are those who ride for the Boss and do what he says."

Contextual Overview

4As a large crowd was gathering, and people were coming to Jesus from every town, he said in a parable: 5“A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky devoured it. 6Other seed fell on the rock; when it grew up, it withered away, since it lacked moisture. 7Other seed fell among thorns; the thorns grew up with it and choked it. 8Still other seed fell on good ground; when it grew up, it produced fruit: a hundred times what was sown.” 9Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?” 10So he said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you 11“This is the meaning of the parable: 12The seed along the path are those who have heard and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. 13And the seed on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy. Having no root, these believe for a while and fall away in a time of testing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

My mother: Luke 11:27, Luke 11:28, Matthew 25:40, Matthew 25:45, Matthew 28:10, John 15:14, John 15:15, John 20:17, 2 Corinthians 5:16, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Hebrews 2:11-13

which: Luke 8:15, Matthew 7:21-26, Matthew 17:5, John 6:28, John 6:29, John 13:17, James 1:22, 1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:22, 1 John 3:23, 3 John 1:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:5 - all that Ezekiel 33:31 - and they Matthew 12:50 - do Romans 2:13 - For not Romans 10:17 - and hearing Philippians 4:9 - do 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - the word of God

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:
Genesis 4:12
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
Genesis 5:29
And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”
Genesis 6:5
When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,
Genesis 6:17
“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
Genesis 8:1
God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.
Genesis 8:2
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.
Genesis 8:3
The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly.
Genesis 8:6
After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,
Genesis 8:7
and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

Gill's Notes on the 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 interrupt him in his work:

my mother and my brethren are these; pointing to his disciples:

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; :-.

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 12:46-50.


 
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