...lay his head." * When a woman in the crowd, ravished with his doctrine, cried out in an ecstasy, " Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked ! " he said, " Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." f When Peter was...

...respecting himself, when, having seen his mighty works, and heard his wise discourses, she exclaimed, " Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked." (Luke xi. 27.) On this rational principle, we cannot separate the greatness which distinguished the...

...the one thing that David desired, Psal. xxvii. 4. We read of one in the gospel that said to Christ, " Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked ;" to which Christ answered, " Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it,"...

...Saviour of men? How affecting is his declaration to the woman i Matth. xii. 46—60. who said to him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked, when he replied to her, Yea, rather, Messed are they that hear the word of God and keep it2 ! Again,...

...hearers with an effusion of heavenly wisdom, a woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said, ' Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.' Now of all the conceivable substitutes for personal piety on which human indolence might seek to repose,...

...lay his head." * When a woman in the crowd, ravished with his doctrine, cried out in an ecstasy, " Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked ! " he said, " Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." f When Peter was...

...our Lord, in answer to the premature instance of it there exhibited, by the woman who exclaimed — " Blessed is the womb that " bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked" — checks her with prophetical caution thus — " Yea, " rather blessed are they that hear the word...

...pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, 32 'An 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. 29 1J "And when...

...woman exclaimed, after hearing him so conclusively refute the artful interrogations of his enemies. " things, whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee: For I have giren unto But how superior are the ties, which unite the family of Jesus Christ according to the Spirit, to those...

...spake these words, that a certain woman raised her voice from among the multitude, and said to him ; Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked ! 27 but he said, Nay, rather, blessed are they that hearken to the word of God, and keep it. 28 And,...