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Luke 8:21

But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."

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

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

4 When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. 5 "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell by the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. 6 Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. 7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. 8 Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" 9 Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?" 10 He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.' 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. 13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, and fall away in time of temptation.

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
To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:12
From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
Genesis 5:29
and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:17
I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
Genesis 8:1
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 8:2
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Genesis 8:3
The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
Genesis 8:6
It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
Genesis 8:7
and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off 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; :-.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 12:46-50.


 
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