Luke 8:21
 Luke 8:21 
New International Version (©2011)
He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jesus replied, "My mother and my brothers are all those who hear God's word and obey it."

English Standard Version (©2001)
But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear 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."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But He replied to them, "My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God."

International Standard Version (©2012)
But he answered those people, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear a message from God and heed it."

NET Bible (©2006)
But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But he answered and said to them, “These are my mother and my brothers; those who are hearing the word of God and are practicing it.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do what God's word says."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.

American King James Version
And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brothers are these which hear the word of God, and do 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who answering, said to them: My mother and my brethren are they who hear the word of God, and do it.

Darby Bible Translation
But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and 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.

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.

Weymouth New Testament
"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."

World English Bible
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word 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.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:4-21 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 the same thing that is a parable to others, with which they are only amused, is a plain truth to us, by which we are taught and governed. We ought to take heed of the things that will hinder our profiting by the word we hear; to take heed lest we hear carelessly and slightly, lest we entertain prejudices against the word we hear; and to take heed to our spirits after we have heard the word, lest we lose what we have gained. The gifts we have, will be continued to us or not, as we use them for the glory of God, and the good of our brethren. Nor is it enough not to hold the truth in unrighteousness; we should desire to hold forth the word of life, and to shine, giving light to all around. Great encouragement is given to those who prove themselves faithful hearers of the word, by being doers of the work. Christ owns them as his relations.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the Word of God, and do it. The Master used the opportunity to send home into the hearts of the many listeners the stern, grave lesson that there was something more solemn even than family ties, and that these, holy and binding though they were, must not be allowed to stand in the way of plain, unmistakable duty.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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; See Gill on Matthew 12:49. See Gill on Matthew 12:50.


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Jesus' Mother and Brothers
19Then came to him his mother and his brothers, and could not come at him for the press. 20And it was told him by certain which said, Your mother and your brothers stand without, desiring to see you. 21And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brothers are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

Luke 8:20 Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you."
Luke 11:28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."