Luke 11:28

But he replied, “God is much more pleased with those who hear his message and obey it!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

In Context

27When Jesus said that, a woman who was listening called out to him, “ God is pleased with the woman who gave birth to you (sg) and let you nurse at her breasts!”

29When the group of people around Jesus got larger, he said, “ Many of you people who have been observing my ministry are evil. You want me to perform a miracle to prove that I have come from God, but the only miracle that I will perform for you is one like happened to Jonah.

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Cross References

Psalms 112:1Praise Yahweh! ◄Happy are/He is pleased with► those who revere him, those who happily obey his commands.

Psalms 128:1◄Happy are/Yahweh is pleased with► those of you who revere him and do what he wants you to do [IDM].

Matthew 7:21“ Even though many people habitually call me ‘Lord’, pretending that they have my authority, some of them will not go to heaven where God rules, because they do not do what he desires. Only those people who do what my Father, who is in heaven, desires will go there.

Luke 6:47Some people come to me, and hear my messages and obey them. I will tell you what they are like.

John 13:17Since you now know these things, God will be pleased with you if you do them.”

1 John 3:21Dear friends, when we do not feel guilty because of our sins, we can pray to God confidently.

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:28-29

Praise and a Blessing. 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 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. We had not this passage in the other evangelists, nor can we tack it, as Dr. Hammond does, to that of Christ's mother and brethren desiring to speak with him (for this evangelist also has related that in ch. viii. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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