As JESUS was speaking, a woman spoke from the crowd and said to him, " Blessed is the one who bore you and nursed you!" JESUS replied, "Surely blessed are those who hear the word of GOD and keep it as well."
self explanation to the gospel: Blessed is the one who bore you! This woman envies the mother of Jesus and is full of admiration for his way of speaking. She is mistaken if she thinks that Jesus' relatives can be proud on his account, and she is wasting her time if she admires his words instead of making them her own. So Jesus turns her towards the Father, whose word he gives , and to herself, whom God invites to the family of his sons and daughters. As for Mary, the mother of Jesus, the one who believed(1:45), she kept all the words and deeds of the Lord in her heart(Lk 2:51)
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