Luke 8:19
Jesus’ True Family Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.
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- Matt 12:46-50 : 46 Jesus’ True Family While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him. 47 Someone told him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.” 48 To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” 49 And pointing toward his disciples he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Mark 3:31-35 : 31 Jesus’ True Family Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.” 33 He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34 And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Mark 3:21 : 21 When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said,“He is out of his mind.”
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- Luke 8:20-212 verses88%
20 So he was told,“Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”
21 But he replied to them,“My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
- Mark 3:31-355 verses85%
31 Jesus’ True Family Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.
32 A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”
33 He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
34 And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!
35 For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Matt 12:46-505 verses83%
46 Jesus’ True Family While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.
47 Someone told him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.”
48 To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
49 And pointing toward his disciples he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!
50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Mark 3:20-212 verses72%
20 Jesus and Beelzebul Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.
21 When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said,“He is out of his mind.”
- Matt 13:54-574 verses72%
54 Then he came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said,“Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?
55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother named Mary? And aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
56 And aren’t all his sisters here with us? So where did he get all this?”
57 And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them,“A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”
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12 Cleansing the Temple After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
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5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)
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3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.
4 Then Jesus said to them,“A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.”
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1 Rejection at Nazareth Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
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9 Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.
10 For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.
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3 So Jesus’ brothers advised him,“Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.
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25 Counting the Cost Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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18 So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”
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14 The Disciples’ Failure to Heal When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.
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20 A Request for James and John Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.
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48 but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.
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25 Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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48 When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him,“Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”
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51 Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.
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20 (Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)
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3 He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.
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45 But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.
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29 Healings at Simon’s House Now as soon as they left the synagogue, they entered Simon and Andrew’s house, with James and John.
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31 His disciples said to him,“You see the crowd pressing against you and you say,‘Who touched me?’”
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10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.
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14 All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
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56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
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42 and they said,“Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,‘I have come down from heaven’?”
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4 The Parable of the Sower While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:
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11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.
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7 Crowds by the Sea Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,
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1 Cleansing a Leper After he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.
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37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
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44 but(because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.