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Lukas 11:27

Ketika Yesus masih berbicara, berserulah seorang perempuan dari antara orang banyak dan berkata kepada-Nya: "Berbahagialah ibu yang telah mengandung Engkau dan susu yang telah menyusui Engkau."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Pharisees;   Thompson Chain Reference - Emotional Hearers;   Hearers, Emotional;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Hearing;   Obedience;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mary;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Mary;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lord's Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canticles;   ;   Marriage;   Mary, the Virgin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Mary;   Paps;   Prayer;   Son of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Annunciation, the ;   Blessedness;   Blessedness (2);   Blessing (2);   Character;   Chosen One;   Discourse;   Lawyer ;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Marks Stigmata;   Mary, the Virgin;   Minister, Ministration;   Originality;   Praise (2);   Sermon on the Mount;   Voice (2);   Winter ;   Woman (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Beelzebub;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cloud;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pap;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 20;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika Yesus masih berbicara, berserulah seorang perempuan dari antara orang banyak dan berkata kepada-Nya: "Berbahagialah ibu yang telah mengandung Engkau dan susu yang telah menyusui Engkau."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tatkala Yesus lagi mengatakan perkara itu, datang seorang perempuan dari antara orang banyak bersuara sambil berkata kepada-Nya, "Berbahagialah rahim yang mengandungkan Engkau, dan tetek yang telah Engkau hisap."

Contextual Overview

27 And it came to passe, that as he spake these thynges, a certayne woman of the company lyft vp her voyce, & saide vnto hym: Happy is the wombe that bare thee, and the pappes whiche gaue thee sucke. 28 But he sayde: Yea rather happy are they that heare the worde of God, and kepe it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Blessed: Luke 1:28, Luke 1:42, Luke 1:48

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:23 - son suck Job 29:11 - the ear Proverbs 7:4 - Thou Proverbs 23:25 - and she Matthew 11:6 - blessed Matthew 12:50 - do Mark 3:34 - Behold Luke 1:45 - blessed Luke 8:21 - My mother

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.
Genesis 11:11
And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad fiue hundreth yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Genesis 11:29
Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.
Genesis 11:31
And Tarah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe his sonne Abrams wyfe, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, that they myght go into the land of Chanaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis 12:4
And so Abram departed, euen as the Lorde had spoken vnto hym, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seuentie and fiue yeres old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 14:12
And they caryed awaye Lot also Abrams brothers sonne, & his goodes, (for he dwelled in Sodome) and departed.
2 Peter 2:7
And iust Lot, vexed with ye vncleane conuersatio of the wicked, deliuered he.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 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 This was a form of blessing among the Jews: so it is said s of R. Joshuah ben Chananiah, a disciple of R. Jochanan ben Zaccai, who lived about these times, אשרי יולדתו, "blessed is she that bore him": and they had also a form of cursing among them, much after the same manner, as ליט ביזא דכן איינק, "cursed be the paps that suckled him" t. 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 u but this woman had a different opinion of her.

s Pirke Abot, c. 2. sect. 8. t T. Hieros. Celaim, fol. 27. 2. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 5. fol. 5. 1. u T. Hieros. Chagiga, fol. 77. 4. & Sanhedrin, fol. 23. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 she was happy - that it was an honor to be his mother, but he says that the chief happiness, the highest honor, was to obey the word of God. Compared with this, all earthly distinctions and honors are as nothing. Man’s greatest dignity is in keeping the holy commandments of God, and in being prepared for heaven. See the notes at Luke 10:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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