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26 So the bad spirit goes out and it brings back seven other spirits. They are even worse than itself. They all go into the person and they live there. Now the person's life is even worse than it was before.’[a]

27 While Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd shouted out. ‘How happy is the woman that gave birth to you! How happy is the woman that fed you from her breasts!’

28 Jesus replied, ‘It is the people who hear God's message who are happy. They are happy if they obey it.’

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Footnotes

  1. 11:26 When the Jewish leaders commanded a bad spirit to leave a person, it often came out. But later it went back to live inside the person again. Because the Holy Spirit did not fill him, there was room for bad spirits to come in.

26 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and (A)the last state of that man is worse than the first.”

Keeping the Word

27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, (B)“Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”

28 But He said, (C)“More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

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