Luke 11:28 — Community Reflections

LUKE 11:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

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

Whoever acknowledges me before people, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God, but whoever denies me before people will be denied before the angels of God — the public confession of Jesus is the act that constitutes discipleship in the face of persecution. The Son of Man's acknowledgment before the angels of God anticipates the final judgment, where the private relationship with Jesus becomes the criterion for public verdict.

Church Fathers on Luke 11:28

While the Scribes and Pharisees were tempting our Lord, and uttering blasphemies against Him, a certain woman with great boldness confessed His incarnation, as it follows, And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said to him, Blessed is the womb that bore you, &c. by which she refutes both the calumnies of the rulers present, and the unbelief of future heretics. For as then by blaspheming the works of the Holy…
Bede · 8th century

In this answer He sought not to disown His mother, but to show that His birth would have profited her nothing, had she not been really fruitful in works and faith. But if it Met profited Mary nothing that Christ derived His birth from her, without the inward virtue of her heart, much less will it avail us to have a virtuous father, brother, or son, while we ourselves are strangers to virtue.
Chrysostom · 4th century

Read all 3 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain

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