25 And when it[a] arrives it finds the house[b] swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and[c] live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first!”

27 Now it happened that as he said these things, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and[d] said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:25 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arrives”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 11:25 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Luke 11:26 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“go in”) has been translated as a finite verb
  4. Luke 11:27 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“raised”) has been translated as a finite verb