The Meaning of Luke 8:19 Explained

Luke 8:19

KJV: Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.

YLT: And there came unto him his mother and brethren, and they were not able to get to him because of the multitude,

Darby: And his mother and his brethren came to him, and could not get to him because of the crowd.

ASV: And there came to him his mother and brethren, and they could not come at him for the crowd.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then  came  to  him  [his] mother  and  his  brethren,  and  could  not  come  at him  for  the press. 

What does Luke 8:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Luke 8:16-25 - Hearing Doing Believing
Inconsistency, unkindly words and acts, disobedience to our known duty will prevent our light from shining. If Christ has illumined your wick, see that you trust Him to find for you your stand, from which you may emit the clearest rays. You are lighted to shine!
The closest relationship to Jesus is not that of nature but of grace. To listen in your heart to God's voice, to hear it in His Word and in Providence and then to do as it decrees, will bring you into the closest relationship with your Lord.
Be prepared for storms if you link your lives with Christ. But they cannot hurt you. Men and demons will rage against you; but there is a limit to their power. Jesus rules the waves. "The sea is His and He made it." If only you can include yourself and Christ in that pronoun we of Luke 8:24 you can never perish although there be as many demons against you as tiles on the house roofs. So Luther found it. See Isaiah 54:17. [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 8

1  Women minister unto Jesus of their own means
4  Jesus, after he had preached from place to place,
9  explains the parable of the sower,
16  and the candle;
19  declares who are his mother, and brothers;
22  rebukes the winds;
26  casts the legion of demons out of the man into the herd of pigs;
37  is rejected by the Gadarenes;
43  heals the woman of her bleeding;
49  and raises Jairus's daughter from death

Greek Commentary for Luke 8:19

His mother and brethren [η μητηρ και οι αδελποι αυτου]
Mark 3:31-35; Matthew 12:46-50 place the visit of the mother and brothers of Jesus before the parable of the sower. Usually Luke follows Mark‘s order, but he does not do so here. At first the brothers of Jesus (younger sons of Joseph and Mary, I take the words to mean, there being sisters also) were not unfriendly to the work of Jesus as seen in John 2:12 when they with the mother of Jesus are with him and the small group (half dozen) disciples in Capernaum after the wedding in Cana. But as Jesus went on with his work and was rejected at Nazareth (Luke 4:16-31), there developed an evident disbelief in his claims on the part of the brothers who ridiculed him six months before the end (John 7:5). At this stage they have apparently come with Mary to take Jesus home out of the excitement of the crowds, perhaps thinking that he is beside himself (Mark 3:21). They hardly believed the charge of the rabbis that Jesus was in league with Beelzebub. Certainly the mother of Jesus could give no credence to that slander. But she herself was deeply concerned and wanted to help him if possible. See discussion of the problem in my little book The Mother of Jesus and also on Mark 3:31 and Matthew 12:46. [source]
Come to him [συντυχειν]
Second aorist active infinitive of συντυγχανω — suntugchanō an old verb, though here alone in the N.T., meaning to meet with, to fall in with as if accidentally, here with associative instrumental case αυτωι — autōi f0). [source]

Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Luke 8:19

John 7:5 For even his brethren did not believe on him [ουδε γαρ οι αδελποι αυτου επιστευον εις αυτον]
Literally, “For not even were his brothers believing on him.” Imperfect tense of πιστευω — pisteuō with sad picture of the persistent refusal of the brothers of Jesus to believe in his Messianic assumptions, after the two rejections in Capernaum (Luke 4:16-31; Mark 6:1-6; Matthew 13:54-58), and also after the blasphemous accusation of being in league with Beelzebub when the mother and brothers came to take Jesus home (Mark 3:31-35; Matthew 12:46-50; Luke 8:19-21). The brothers here are sarcastic. [source]

What do the individual words in Luke 8:19 mean?

Came then to Him the mother and the brothers of Him not they were able to get to Him because of the crowd
Παρεγένετο δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν μήτηρ καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἠδύναντο συντυχεῖν αὐτῷ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον

Παρεγένετο  Came 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Middle, 3rd Person Singular
Root: παραγίνομαι  
Sense: to be present, to come near, approach.
μήτηρ  mother 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Singular
Root: μήτηρ  
Sense: a mother.
ἀδελφοὶ  brothers 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: ἀδελφός  
Sense: a brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother.
αὐτοῦ  of  Him 
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Root: αὐτός  
Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself.
ἠδύναντο  they  were  able 
Parse: Verb, Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive, 3rd Person Plural
Root: δύναμαι  
Sense: to be able, have power whether by virtue of one’s own ability and resources, or of a state of mind, or through favourable circumstances, or by permission of law or custom.
συντυχεῖν  to  get 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Infinitive Active
Root: συντυγχάνω  
Sense: to meet with, come.
αὐτῷ  to  Him 
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Root: αὐτός  
Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself.
διὰ  because  of 
Parse: Preposition
Root: διά  
Sense: through.
ὄχλον  crowd 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Singular
Root: ὄχλος  
Sense: a crowd.

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