Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 23:29

"For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck." — Luke 23:29 (ASV)

Blessed are the barren.—We must enter into all the passionate desire of Israelite women for offspring, as we see it, e.g., in Rachel (Genesis 30:1) and in Hannah (1 Samuel 1:10–11), in order to estimate the strangeness of such a beatitude. With some of those who heard it, its force may have been emphasized by its contrast between it and the blessing which had been once uttered by a woman who may, perhaps, have been one of them (Luke 11:27).