Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 11:27
Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked! — How natural was the thought for a woman! And how gently does our Lord reprove her!
Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked! — How natural was the thought for a woman! And how gently does our Lord reprove her!
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 mothe...
A CERTAIN WOMAN - One of the crowd. BLESSED IS THE WOMB ... - She thought that the “mother” of such a person must be especially happy in having such a son. YEA, RATHER BLESSED ... - Jesus admits that...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
LUKE 11:27 F. JESUS AND HIS MOTHER. A variant of Luke 8:19 *. The introduction of feminine sentiment is characteristic of Lk. Human relationship is not the highest claim; _cf._ Matthew 15:5 f.*...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it goes through waterless places seeking for rest. And when it does not find it, it says, "I will go back to my house from which I came out." So it comes and...
AS HE SPAKE. in (Greek. _en._ App-104.) His speaking. COMPANY. crowd. BLESSED. Happy. HAST SUCKED. didst suck....
27-32. The Womanly Exclamation. The Peril of Privileges abused. 27. _Blessed is the womb that bare thee_ See Luke 1:28; Luke 1:48. "How many women have blessed the Holy Virgin, and desired to be such...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
THE WOMANLY EXCLAMATION. THE PERIL OF PRIVILEGES ABUSED...
ἘΠΆΡΑΣΆ ΤΙΣ ΓΥΝῊ ΦΩΝῊΝ ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ ὌΧΛΟΥ. _A woman uplifting her voice out of the crowd_. “Bene sentit,” says Bengel, “sed muliebriter loquitur.” ΜΑΚΑΡΊΑ Ἡ ΚΟΙΛΊΑ Ἡ ΒΑΣΤΆΣΑΣΆ ΣΕ. See Luke 1:28; Luke 1:48....
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
VER 27. AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE SPOKE THESE THINGS, A CERTAIN WOMAN OF THE COMPANY LIFTED UP HER VOICE, AND SAID TO HIM, BLESSED IS THE WOMB THAT BORE YOU, AND THE PAPS WHICH YOU HAVE SUCKED. 28. B...
_THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY BLESSED -- LUKE 11:27-36:_ People talked to Jesus about who was really blessed. Jesus got right to the point and said, "Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Luke 11:1, с _предл._ ΈΝ (G1722) и _inf._ выражает время, ΛΈΓΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Inf._ с _предл._ указывает на одновременное действи...
DISCOURSE: 1523 THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE TRUE CHRISTIAN Luke 11:27. _And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Perverseness (Luke 11:14-28) 14 Now he was casting out a demon that was dumb; when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people marveled. 15But some of them...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Praise for the Mother who Bore Him Scripture_ Luke 11:27-28 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unt...
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. See the notes at Matthew 12:22. Verse 14-20 For the expo...
27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
AS HE SPAKE] What our Lord had just said about the danger of a relapse after a superficial repentance (Luke 11:26) struck the woman as so true to life (probably through some unfortunate experience in...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
A CERTAIN WOMAN OF THE COMPANY. — The incident is peculiar to St. Luke, and, like many other of the facts recorded by him, seems to have been derived from the company of devout women (Luke 8:1; see _I...
κοιλία, μαστοὶ : “Mulier bene sentit sed muliebriter loquitur” (Bengel)....
_The woman in the crowd_. In Lk. only, though reminding one of Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:32-35. It reports an honest matron's blessing on the, to her probably unknown, mother of Jesus, who in this case...
“THE SIGN OF JONAH” Luke 11:27-32 What a tribute this woman paid our Lord! He was full of grace as well as truth; and those who, with unbiased and unprejudiced minds, saw Him moving among men, were...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
(7) And it came to pass, as he 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. (7...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
CONSANGUINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35; & Luke 8:19; Luke 8:21;...
7. _The Blasphemy of the Pharisees: Luke 11:14-36_. We have already observed (see on Luke 6:11) how remarkably coincident in time are the accusations called forth in Galilee by the healings on the Sab...
(27) And it came to pass, as he 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. (28)...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_HEARING AND KEEPING GOD’S WORD_ ‘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 rath...
Luke 11:27._Blessed is the womb. _By this eulogium the woman intended to magnify the excellence of Christ; for she had no reference to Mary, (154) whom, perhaps, she had never seen. And yet it tends i...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
AND IT CAME TO PASS AS HE SPOKE THESE THINGS,.... That is, as Christ spoke, or "had finished these sayings", as the Persic version expresses it, before related, in vindication of himself and his mirac...
And it came to pass, as he 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. Ver. 2...
_As he spake these things, a certain woman_, &c. While Jesus thus reasoned, in confutation of the Pharisees, a woman of the company, ravished with his wisdom, and perhaps believing him to be their lon...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE 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....
A woman's judgment of Christ:...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
27,28 While the scribes and Pharisees despised and blasphemed the discourses of our Lord Jesus, this good woman admired them, and the wisdom and power with which he spake. Christ led the woman to a hi...
Ver. 27,28. We are very prone to bless persons from external privileges, and the favours of Divine Providence, which do not at all change or affect the hearts of those to whom they are given; but God...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book III For a certain woman had exclaimed, "Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked!"[146] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV "A (certain)...
Luke 11:27 And G1161 happened G1096 (G5633) as G1722 He G846 spoke G3004 (G5721) things G5023 certain...
‘And it came about that, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the crowd lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bare you, and the breasts which you sucked.” ' ‘Whil...
Luke 11:27. A CERTAIN WOMAN. Herself a mother, we infer from her language. Tradition calls her ‘Marcella, a maid-servant of Martha.' BLESSED IS THE WOMB. A natural expression of womanly enthusiasm at...
CHRONOLOGY. The miracle and discourses here recorded are probably identical with those narrated in Matthew 12:22-45; Mark 3:23-30. Some have supposed that Luke gives the exact position, and not the ot...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
AS HE SAID THESE THINGS (εν τω λεγειν αυτον). Luke's common idiom, εν with articular infinitive. Verses Luke 11:27; Luke 11:28 are peculiar to Luke. His Gospel in a special sense is the Gospel of Wo...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
HOW HAPPY IS THE WOMAN. This woman who speaks, comes closer to the worship of the human mother of Christ, than anyone else in the New Testament. Jesus rebukes her, and points out that it is not his hu...
_Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it_ BLESSEDNESS FROM THE DIVINE POINT OF VIEW I. THE WOMAN’S EXCLAMATION. 1. Implying, in an indirect yet very strong manner, the blessedness o...
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_And it came to pass as He spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him_, &c., i.e. Thou art so holy and so blessed, 0 Christ, that because of thee thy mot...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:14. CASTING OUT A DEVIL.—There seems to be little doubt that this miracle is the same as that in Matthew 12:22, as wrought apparently in Galilee. In St. Matthew’s Gospel there...
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
Luke 1:28; Luke 1:42; Luke 1:48...
Blessed, etc. "She speaks well, but womanly" (Bengel). 29 - 36. Compare Matthew 12:38-45....
Observe here, 1. How ready we are to admire persons for their external privileges, and the favors of divine Providence, and pronounce such blessed: BLESSED IS THE WOMB THAT BARE THEE. Observe, 2. That...