Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 11:27

"And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck." — Luke 11:27 (ASV)

A certain woman of the company. The incident is peculiar to St. Luke and, like many other of the facts recorded by him, seems to have been derived from the company of devout women (Luke 8:1; see Introduction) with whom he came into contact. It is interesting as being the first direct fulfilment of the words of the Magnificat, All generations shall call me blessed (Luke 1:48), and as showing how the Son of Mary in this instance, as in Matthew 12:46-50, extended the beatitude.

There is at once a singular agreement in the manner in which each incident, embodying substantially the same lesson, follows the parable of the Unclean Spirit, and a singular difference in the forms which the incident takes in the two narratives. A possible solution to the problem thus presented may be found in supposing the exclamation which St. Luke records to have been uttered by one of the women who was present when, as St. Matthew relates (Matthew 12:47), one said to Him, Behold Thy mother and Thy brethren stand without . . .