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For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, `Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.`
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A Blessing Turned Curse
Commentators emphasize how radical Jesus's statement was. In Jewish culture, children were considered a supreme blessing from God. Jesus prophesies a time of such intense suffering that this fundamental blessing would be seen as a curse. Women would consider themselves 'blessed' to be barren to avoid the agony of watching their children suffer, highlighting the unparalleled severity of the coming judgment.
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Blessed (μακαρια). A beatitude to the barren, the opposite of the hopes of Jewish mothers. Childless women are commiserated (1:25,…
19th Century
Anglican
Blessed are the barren.—We must enter into all the passionate desire of Israelite women for offspring, as we see it, …
Baptist
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughte…
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As Jesus heads to Calvary, Luke records an incident that expresses Jesus’ concern for the fate of Jerusalem (cf. 19:41–44; 21:20–24). Jewish women …
16th Century
Protestant
For, lo, the days will come. He threatens that a calamity which is not usual, but fearful and unheard of, is near, in which God's vengeanc…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For behold the days are coming The time is hastening on; yet a little while, a few years more, and such times of dis…
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Presbyterian
Here we have the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter, to the sacrifice. Though many reproached and reviled him, yet some…
