When Jesus had said this, a woman spoke up from the crowd and said to him, “How happy is the woman who bore you and nursed you!”
Let your father and mother be proud of you; give your mother that happiness.
The angel came to her and said, “Peace be with you! The Lord is with you and has greatly blessed you!”
and said in a loud voice, “You are the most blessed of all women, and blessed is the child you will bear!
for he has remembered me, his lowly servant! From now on all people will call me happy,
Then it goes out and brings seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning.”
For the days are coming when people will say, ‘How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!’