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Luke 8:20
Luke 8:20 is verse 20 of Luke chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He was told, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see You.”
King James Version
And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
World English Bible
Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
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Luke 8:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
19 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see Him, but they were unable to reach Him because of the crowd.
20 He was told, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see You.”
21 But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
22 One day Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side of the lake.” So He got into a boat with them and set out.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 13:55“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother’s name Mary, and aren’t His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
Matthew 13:56Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? Where then did this man get all these things?”
Mark 6:3Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.
John 7:3So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
John 7:4For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
John 7:5For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
John 7:6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
Acts 1:14With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
1 Corinthians 9:5Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
Galatians 1:19But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.