Luke 8:19

“For, after reporting certain of the Lord’s parables, he has introduced his notice of what took place with His mother and His brethren in the following manner: “Then came to Him His mother and His brethren, and could not come at Him for the press.”” — editor's note: Luke viii. 19.

“In chap. viii. 19 he expunged ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ.” — the author cites it

Our Lord had left His kinsfolk according to the flesh, and was occupied in His Father’s teaching. But when they began to feel His absence, they came unto Him, as it is said, Then came unto him his mother and his…

But those who are said to be our Lord’s brethren according to the flesh, you must not imagine to be the children of the blessed Mary, the mother of God, as Helvidius thinks, nor the children of Joseph by another…

His brethren thought that when He heard of their presence He would send away the people, from respect to His mother’s name, and from His affection towards her, as it follows, And it was told him, Thy mother and thy…

Think what it was, when the whole people stood by, and were hanging upon His mouth, (for His teaching had already begun,) to withdraw Him away from them. Our Lord accordingly answers as it were rebuking them, as it…

The moral teacher who gives himself an example to others, when about to enjoin upon others, that he who has not left father and mother, is not worthy of the Son of God, first submits Himself to this precept, not that…

They then who hear the word of God and do it, are called the mother of our Lord, because they daily in their actions or words bring Him forth as it were in their inmost hearts; they also are His brethren where they…

Now He does not say this by way of reproof to His mother, but to greatly assist her, for if He was anxious for others to beget in them a just opinion of Himself, much more was He for His mother. And He had not raised…

But some take this to mean that certain men, hating Christ’s teaching, and mocking at Him for His doctrine, said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without wishing to see thee; as if thereby to shew His meanness of…

In a mystical sense he ought not to stand without, who was seeking Christ. Hence also that saying, Come unto him, and be enlightened (Ps. 34:6. Vulg.). For if they stand without, not even parents themselves are…

For they cannot enter within when He is teaching whose words they refuse to understand spiritually. But the multitude went before and entered into the house, because when the Jews rejected Christ the Gentiles flocked…

Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 8:19–21 (2) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 8:19–21 (2) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.41.

Mark 2:4 and Luke 8:19 share the same wording (9 words).