Lukas 8:20

20 And it was announced to him, Your Em and your achim have been standing outside waiting to see you.

Lukas 8:20 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 8:20

And it was told him by certain, which said
The phrase, "which said", is omitted in the Vulgate Latin version, and in Beza's most ancient copy. The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions only read, "and they said unto him"; and the Persic version renders it, "a certain person said"; some one person, as in ( Matthew 12:47 )

thy mother, and thy brethren, stand without, desiring to see thee;
and to speak with thee, as in ( Matthew 12:47 ) . (See Gill on Matthew 12:47).

Lukas 8:20 In-Context

18 Therefore, be shomer how you listen, for whoever has, to him shall more be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him.

19 And the Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his achim came to him, and they were not able to get to him because of the multitude.

20 And it was announced to him, Your Em and your achim have been standing outside waiting to see you.

21 But in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, My Em and my achim are these: the ones who are shomei dvar Hashem (hearers of the word of Hashem) and also shomrei dvar Hashem (keepers guarding, doing the word of Hashem).

22 Now it came about on one of those yamim when he and his talmidim embarked into a sirah that he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they launched out.