Luke 11:27 (WEB)
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”
Fathers and councils · 14
Athanasius of Alexandria
“And for this reason Scripture also mentions her bringing forth, and tells of her wrapping Him in swaddling clothes; and therefore, too, the paps which He sucked were called blessed.” — editor's note: Ib. xi. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“These words are recorded also by Luke in this connection, although in a somewhat different order.” — editor's note: Luke xi. 16–37.
Read the whole commentChapter LXII.—Of the Harmony Subsisting Between Matthew and Mark in the Accounts Which They Offer of the Time When He Was Asked Whether It Was Lawful to Put Away One’s Wife, and Especially in Regard to the Specific…
Read the whole comment“For to a certain one who said, “Blessed is the womb, which bare Thee,” He Himself made answer, “Yea, rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God, and keep it.”” — editor's note: Luke xi. 27, 28
Read the whole comment“Moreover, when the Lord was regarded with admiration by the multitude, while doing signs and wonders, and showing forth what lay concealed under the flesh, certain admiring souls said: “Happy is the womb that bare Thee: and He said, Yea, rather, happy are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.”” — editor's note: Luke xi. 27.
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John Chrysostom
“Think of this then, and when you hear a certain woman saying, “Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked,” and Him answering, “rather blessed are they that do the will of my Father” ( Luke xi. 27 ), suppose that those other words also were said with the same intention.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Therefore in another place also, when some woman had said, “Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked;” He said not, “The womb bare me not, neither did I suck the paps,” but this, “Yea rather, blessed are they that do the will of my Father.”” — editor's note: Luke xi. 27, 28. [According to many Harmonists this occurred about the same time, probably as His mother was seen approaching.—R.]
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Tertullian
“It was in just the same sense, indeed, that He also replied to that exclamation (of a certain woman), not denying His mother’s “womb and paps,” but designating those as more “blessed who hear the word of God.”” — editor's note: Luke xi. 27, 28. See also our Anti-Marcion, p. 292, Edin.
Read the whole comment“For a certain woman had exclaimed, “Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked!”” — editor's note: Luke xi. 27.
Read the whole comment““A (certain) mother of the company exclaims, ‘Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked;’ but the Lord said, ‘Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.’”” — editor's note: Luke xi. 27, 28.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.19On Virginity
“In the same strain the womb of the Holy Virgin, which ministered to an Immaculate Birth, is pronounced blessed in the Gospel; for that birth did not annul the Virginity, nor did the Virginity impede so great a birth.” — editor's note: S. Luke xi. 27
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
While the Scribes and Pharisees were tempting our Lord, and uttering blasphemies against Him, a certain woman with great boldness confessed His incarnation, as it follows, And it came to pass, as he spake these…
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In this answer He sought not to disown His mother, but to shew that His birth would have profited her nothing, had she not been really fruitful in works and faith. But if it profited Mary nothing that Christ derived…
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But she was the mother of God, and therefore indeed blessed, in that she was made the temporal minister of the Word becoming incarnate; yet therefore much more blessed that she remained the eternal keeper of the same…
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 7.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 3.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 3.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.10 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 7.