SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:27
¶ Y aconteci que diciendo l estas cosas, una mujer de la multitud, levantando la voz, le dijo: Bienaventurado el vientre que te trajo, y los pechos que mamaste.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 11:27
Verse 27. A certain woman-lifted up her voice, and said] It was very natural for a woman, who was probably a mother, to exclaim thus. She thought that the happiness of the woman who was mother to such a son was great indeed; but our blessed Lord shows her that even the holy virgin could not be benefited by her merely being the mother of his human nature, and that they only were happy who carried Christ in their hearts. True happiness is found in hearing the glad tidings of salvation by Christ Jesus, and keeping them in a holy heart, and practising them in an unblamable life.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. And it came to pass as he spoke these things , etc.] That is, as Christ spoke, or had finished these sayings, as the Persic version expresses it, before related, in vindication of himself and his miracles, from the blasphemy of the Scribes and Pharisees to their entire confusion, and had delivered the above parable concerning the unclean spirit, which had a particular regard to them: a certain woman of the company : observing the miracle he had wrought, in casting out a devil, and being affected with his discourse, in which he so fully cleared himself, and so strongly confuted his enemies, and set them forth in so just a light: lift up her voice, and said unto him , aloud, in the hearing of all the people, and with great earnestness and fervour: blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked : whether this woman personally knew Mary, the mother of Christ, is not certain; it may be that she was now present, or at least not far off; and this woman hearing that she, with the brethren of Christ, were without, and desired to speak with him, might be the occasion of her uttering these words; ( Matthew 12:46) though they are said not so much in praise, and to the honour of Mary, as in commendation of Christ, from whom, and for the sake of bearing and suckling so great a person, she was denominated blessed as before, both by the angel and Elisabeth, ( Luke 1:28,42) This was a form of blessing among the Jews: so it is said of R. Joshuah ben Chananiah, a disciple of R. Jochanan ben Zaccai, who lived about these times, wtdlwy yra , blessed is she that bore him: and they had also a form of cursing among them, much after the same manner, as qnyya kd azyb jyl , cursed be the paps that suckled him f380 . The Jews, in their blasphemous rage against Christ, and all that belong to him, say of Mary, the daughter of Eli, by whom they seem to design the mother of our Lord, that she hangs in the shades by the fibres of her paps but this woman had a different opinion of her.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 27, 28 - While the scribes and Pharisees despised and blasphemed the discourse of our Lord Jesus, this good woman admired them, and the wisdom an power with which he spake. Christ led the woman to a highe consideration. Though it is a great privilege to hear the word of God yet those only are truly blessed, that is, blessed of the Lord, tha hear it, keep it in memory, and keep to it as their way and rule.
Greek Textus Receptus
εγενετο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3S δε 1161 CONJ εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSM λεγειν 3004 5721 V-PAN αυτον 846 P-ASM ταυτα 5023 D-APN επαρασα 1869 5660 V-AAP-NSF τις 5100 X-NSF γυνη 1135 N-NSF φωνην 5456 N-ASF εκ 1537 PREP του 3588 T-GSM οχλου 3793 N-GSM ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S αυτω 846 P-DSM μακαρια 3107 A-NSF η 3588 T-NSF κοιλια 2836 N-NSF η 3588 T-NSF βαστασασα 941 5660 V-AAP-NSF σε 4571 P-2AS και 2532 CONJ μαστοι 3149 N-NPM ους 3739 R-APM εθηλασας 2337 5656 V-AAI-2S
Vincent's NT Word Studies
27. Blessed, etc. "She speaks well, but womanly" (Bengel).29-36. Compare Matt. xii. 38-45.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
11:27 {As he said these things} (en twi legein auton). Luke's common idiom, en with articular infinitive. Verses #27,28 are peculiar to Luke. His Gospel in a special sense is the Gospel of Woman. this woman "speaks well, but womanly" (Bengel). Her beatitude (makaria) reminds us of Elisabeth's words (#Lu 1:42, eulogmen). She is fulfilling Mary's own prophecy in #1:48 (makariousin me, shall call me happy).
