18 [a]Take [b]heed therefore how ye hear: for (A)whosoever hath, to him shall be given: and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that [c]which it seemeth that he hath.

19 (B)[d]Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come near to him for the press.

20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 8:18 Heavenly gifts are lost with niggardliness, and increase with liberality.
  2. Luke 8:18 That is, with what minds you come to hear the word, and how you behave yourselves when you have heard it.
  3. Luke 8:18 Either to himself, or to others, or to both: for there are none so proud, as these fellows, if it were possible to see that, that they cloke: neither are there that deceive the simple more than they do.
  4. Luke 8:19 There is no knot of flesh and blood, among men so nigh and strait, as the band which is between Christ, and them who embrace him with a true faith.

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