secundum Matthæum 11:27

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Et veniunt rursus Jerosolymam. Et cum ambularet in templo, accedunt ad eum summi sacerdotes, et scribæ, et seniores :

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Factum est autem, cum h�c diceret: extollens vocem qu�dam mulier de turba dixit illi: Beatus venter qui te portavit, et ubera qu� suxisti.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Factum est autem, cum haec diceret, extollens vocem quaedam mulier de turba dixit illi: "Beatus venter, qui te portavit, et ubera, quae suxisti!".

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

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.