Luke 11:28

He said to her: Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

27And while he was saying these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifted up her voice, and said to him: Blessed is the womb that carried thee, and the breasts that nursed thee.

29And when multitudes were assembled, he began to say: This evil generation seeketh a sign; and no sign will be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:21Not whoever may say to me, My Lord, my Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 6:47Every one that cometh to me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will show to whom he is like:

John 13:17If ye know these things, happy will ye be if ye do them.

1 John 3:21My beloved, if our heart condemneth us not, we have open countenances before God.

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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