Luke 11:27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." 28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
Luke 8:19 And His mother and brothers came to Him, and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd. 20And it was reported to Him, "Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You." 21But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."
Hmmmm, Jesus rather seems to put His mother and siblings in their place more times than not.
Luke 11:27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.” 28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Luke 8:19 And His mother and brothers came to Him, and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd. 20And it was reported to Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You.” 21But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
INDEED.
THOUGH I’d take out the qualifier “seems”
It’s just that when RC’s get to those verses . . .
the Vatican mind meld takes over and all they see in their minds eye or on the page is the flutter of white hankys . . . which they may well fantasize are Mary’s kisses for their faithfulness to UNBIBLICAL hogwash.
Or . . . maybe those verses aren’t even in the Vatican stretchy ‘Bibles.’
Luke 11:27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." 28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
Since Jesus had no blood sibling, I will pay attention to Mary's role and the context of Scripture.
Luke 11: has Jesus winding up into full preaching; the calling out was an irrelevancy in the context of his speech and he dismissed it in the context of his teachings. Read Luke 11: from beginning to end and see.
Luke 8: same thing.
Answer me this: if Jesus had no special relationship with his mother, then why would this exchange occur:
John 2: 1 1 On the third day there was a wedding 2 in Cana 3 in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." 4 4 (And) Jesus said to her, "Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come." 5 His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you." 6 5 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. 7 Jesus told them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he told them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter." 6 So they took it. 9 And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, "Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now." 11 Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs 7 in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.
If this passage is to be taken face value, then Mary goes to Jesus and says: Hey - do something!!!! We're here at this wedding and you're contributing nothing and they're outta wine. Get moving. Jesus says: No way. I'm not ready yet. Mary says to the wait staff: Get moving and do what He tells you to (and behind the scenes - get moving you). So Jesus gives them the best wine.
So on the face of it, Jesus disses his mother in public, but when it comes down to crunch time, He does what she asks. Yeah, that's putting her into place. And very Jewish, by the way...