George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Luke 8:21
There is no tie of affinity and friendship so proper, and so becoming man, as that made by faith in Christ, and strengthened by charity. (Tirinus)
There is no tie of affinity and friendship so proper, and so becoming man, as that made by faith in Christ, and strengthened by charity. (Tirinus)
See the notes at Matthew 12:46....
CHAPTER 8 __ 1. The Ministering Company (Luke 8:1 .) 2. The Parable of the Sower. (Luke 8:4 .) 3. The Parable of the Lighted Candle. (Luke 8:16) 4. The Declaration of a New Relationship. ...
INTERVENTION OF JESUS-' FAMILY (Mark 3:31 *, Matthew 12:46 *). Lk. abbreviates and softens. The influence of the parable of the Sower is seen in Luke 8:21....
ON THE ROAD (Luke 8:1-3)...
Jesus' mother and brothers came to him, and they could not get at him because of the crowd. He was given a message. "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they want to see you." "My m...
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....
_are these_ The word implies the "looking round at those sitting in a circle about Him" of Mark 3:34, and the "stretching forth His hand towards His disciples" of Matthew 12:49. "Ye are my friends, if...
ΜΉΤΗΡ ΜΟΥ. Not ἡ μήτηρ. ‘Mother and brethren to me are those who,’ &c. ΟὟΤΟΊ ΕἸΣΙΝ. The demonstrative implies the “looking round at those sitting in a circle about Him” of Mark 3:34, and the “stretchi...
CHRIST’S MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN...
VER 19. THEN CAME TO HIM HIS MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN, AND COULD NOT COME AT HIM FOR THE PRESS. 20. AND IT WAS TOLD HIM BY CERTAIN WHICH SAID, YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR BRETHREN STAND WITHOUT, DESIRING TO S...
ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать (_см._ МН, 453)....
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Spiritual Kinship Scripture_ Luke 8:19-21 And there came to him his mother and brethren, and they could not come at him for the crowd. 20 And it was told him, Thy mother and th...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 In Educating The Ego (Luke 8:1-21) 8 Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve wer...
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 ....
9-10 Compare Mat_13:10-17; Mar_4:10-13; Isa_6:9. 11-12 Compare Mat_13:18-19; Mar_4:14-15. 13 Compare Mat_13:20-21; Mar_4:16-17. 14-15 Compare Mat_13:22-23; Mar_4:18-20. 16-18 Compare Luk_11:33-36;...
PARABLE OF THE SOWER. THE DEMONIAC OF GADARA 1-3. Tours through Galilee. The ministering women (peculiar to Lk)....
HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN (Matthew 12:46; Mark 3:31). See on Mt....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 THE WOMEN WHO HELPED JESUS 8:1-3 V1 Soon afterwards, Jesus travelled round the towns and villages. He brought the good news about the *kingdom of G...
MY MOTHER AND MY BRETHREN. — The answer agrees very closely with that in the other Gospels. But note the use of “the word of God,” instead of “the will of God” in St. Mark, and “the will of my Father”...
(19-21) THEN CAME TO HIM HIS MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN. — See Notes on Matthew 12:46, and Mark 3:31. There cannot be any doubt that we have in those passages a report of the same incident; but it may be...
Lk. omits the graphic touches looking around, and stretching out His hands towards His disciples, concerned only to report the memorable word. οἱ τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ, those hearing and doing _the word...
_Mother and brethren_ (Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35). Given in a different connection from that in Mt. and Mk. The connection here seems purely topical: the visit of the friends of Jesus gives Him o...
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 you tru...
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 this...
CONSANGUINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35; & Luke 8:19; Luke 8:21;...
8. _Visit of the Mother and Brethren of Jesus: Luke 8:19-21_. We should have been ignorant of the real object of this visit, unless, in this as in several other cases, Mark's narrative had come in to...
(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 it...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
In chapter 8 the Lord explains the import and the effect of His ministry; and especially, I doubt not, its effect among the Jews. However great the unbelief, Jesus carries on His work to the end, and...
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 inte...
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 ....
_Then came to him his mother_, &c. See the notes on Matthew 12:46; 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 important branc...
Christ's brethren. Matthew 12:46-50....
None are so near to Jesus Christ as those who hear the word of God and do it. The union between him and them will live when all other ties are sundered, and will grow more intimate and delightful for...
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, MY MOTHER AND MY BRETHREN ARE THESE WHICH HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND DO IT. In the narrative above Luke had combined the discourses of two different occasions. This e...
The true relatives of the Lord:...
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 the...
4-21 There are many very needful and excellent rules and cautions for hearing the word, in the parable of the sower, and the application of it. Happy are we, and for ever indebted to free grace, if t...
See Poole on "Luke 8:20...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV Now He had in precisely similar terms rejected His mother or His brethren, whilst preferring those who heard and obeyed God.[1090]...
Luke 8:21 But G1161 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 them G846 My G3450 mother...
‘But he answered and said to them, “My mother and my brethren are these who hear the word of God, and do it.” ' So He replied that the ones who had a right to His attention now were not His earthly fa...
3). JESUS IS REVEALED AS THE MESSIAH WHO HAS COME WITH POWER (8:19-9:36). In this third part of Section 3 Jesus is Revealed as the glorious Messiah Who has come with power but will be involved in suf...
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 that...
Luke 8:19-21. THE MOTHER AND BRETHREN OF JESUS SEEK HIM. See on Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35. Luke presents no new incidents. The reason for putting this occurrence out of the exact order, may have...
CHRONOLOGY. It is evident from the parallel accounts that the incident of Luke 8:19-21 preceded the parable, etc., Luke 8:4-18. Some would even insert between them a number of discourses related by Lu...
THESE WHICH HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND DO IT (ο τον λογον του θεου ακουοντες κα ποιουντες). The absence of the article with "mother" and "brothers" probably means, as Plummer argues, "Mother to me and...
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 displ...
CONTENTS: Jesus preaching and healing in Galilee. Parable of the sower, the lighted candle. Stilling of the waves. Demons cast out of man of Gadara. Healing of a woman. Raising of Jairus' daughter. C...
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 befor...
JESUS' MOTHER AND BROTHERS CAME TO HIM. See notes on Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:21....
_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 view,...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 8:19 The BROTHERS of Jesus are most likely the sons born to Joseph and Mary after Jesus’ birth. MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS ARE THOSE. For Jesus, spiritual relationships were more impo...
JESUS DESCRIBES HIS TRUE FAMILY MATTHEW 12:46-50; MARK 3:31-35; LUKE 8:19-21; MATTHEW 12:46 While he yet talked to the people, be
CHAPTER 8 VER. 1. _And the twelve_ (apostles) _were with Him, i.e._ they accompanied Jesus as He went through the cities and villages preaching....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 8:19.—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 before t...
EXPOSITION LUKE 8:1 _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 in the Master's wa...
And it came to pass afterward, as he went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and twelve were with him, and certain women, which had been h...
1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:16;...