While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed." He replied, "Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it." (Lk 11:27-28).
There are people who also recognize the goodness and greatness of God. Here a woman recognizes the greatness and goodness and gives credit to the mother of Jesus. This is the normal way of understanding. Parents are responsible and it they who make the child what it is. The mother plays a greater role in this.
Jesus gives credit to the word of God and in fact to God. Jesus did not look into the situation as between the parents and the child (in the narrow sense) rather between creator and creature (in the broader sense). Jesus way of looking at things, makes him an inclusive person.
Jesus’ attitude makes him related to all creatures. Instead if anyone things of himself as related his parents or brothers and sisters or his relative or clan the it makes him narrow minded. Like Jesus, his followers should consider themselves as creatures of God and thus related to all in the universe.
