28And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'


In Context

25 and having come, it findeth it swept and adorned;

26 then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'

27 And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, 'Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

28 And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

29 And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, 'This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

30 for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

Luke 11:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed [are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:28He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said, Yes, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said, |On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.|

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:28But he said, Yes rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.