Here’s Luke 11:27-28:<\/p>\n
And it came to pass, as [Jesus] spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.<\/p>\n
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This woman has offered rather traditional praise of Jesus, by praising the very physical aspects of what his mother had done in mothering him.<\/p>\n
However, Jesus deems this statement worthy of correction. There are (at least) two ways of reading his statement:<\/p>\n
(1) Woman: “Blessed is Mary.”
\n Jesus: “No, blessed are the disciples.”<\/p>\n
(2) Woman: “Blessed is Mary.”
\nJesus: “Yes, but not because of physical acts. She is blessed for keeping the commandments.”<\/p>\n
I prefer (2) as I don’t see any context in the Gospels (especially this one) for Jesus minimizing his mother. I think (2) is better also because it correctly puts the focus on the important aspects of motherhood (raising children in light and truth) and not the physical ones. Perhaps an odd perspective from someone working on her 116th week of pregnancy, but the truth is that any physically able woman can physically bear and nurse a child; raising them in the Gospel is a lot more rare, harder, and much, much more important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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