[presently no screen name]

Did you know that envy is one of the seven deadly sins?

Did you know defiling God's Word is FORBIDDEN?
Of course, if your organization does it - it's OK by you.

Jesus is saying here that the reason Mary is blessed is because she heard the word of God and obeyed it. She gave herself over completely to it.

WRONG! JESUS IS NOT talking about the reason Mary was blessed - HE IS SAYING - blessed MORE are those that HEAR THE WORD AND OBEY IT! He was correcting the lady who was praising her.

You are not only twisting/defiling Jesus' own Words - You are implying ONLY Mary heard the word and obeyed. Jesus said HEAR and OBEY (present tense) and that's more clarification for you.

ALSO.....ALL SIN is deadly! Read The WORD!

[Jvette]

I do not hear a corrective tone in Jesus’ reply.

I never said that Mary is the only one that heard the word of God and obeyed. Obviously that is not the case since billions of people have heard the word and been saved since Jesus’ birth.

Is it a habit of every Protestant here to read into things what I have never said? How much more blessed are we that Mary heard the word and obeyed that now we TOO can hear the word and obey?

HMMMM. What if she hadn’t?