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, as in an earlier instance (Luke 8:19-21), treats the felicity of natural motherhood as entirely subordinate to that of disciplehood.

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Old Testament