LUKE 11:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.”
A woman in the crowd blesses Jesus' mother — blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts you nursed — and Jesus reframes the blessing: blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it. This is not a denigration of Mary but a generalization of her blessedness: Mary is blessed because she heard and obeyed, and that hearing-and-obeying is available to everyone. The womb that bore the kingdom matters less than the heart that receives it.
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