In terms of the overall structure of Luke's gospel and his book The Acts of the Apostles which follows, Luke is introducing two key ideas here. Mary is not simply listening to Jesus as he talks. Rather she is listening to "the word" of the Lord. It has been remarked how in Luke's writing "the word" or the Logos gradually takes on a life of its own. In John's gospel this is a fundamental part of his theology. A second thing Luke does here is state that listening to "the word" is 'the good part' of the way of life that Jesus presents. Also, "watch this space" because this Mary is central to the whole story. She turns out to be the "ointment woman" in the Gospel of John and sister to the disciple whom 'Jesus loved.' It also appears (c/f Mark) she is an "adult child" and the writers reveal her significance step by step.
10. . Listen	11:27-28	woman in crowd	"Blessed the womb"

11:27-28 It happened that as he said these things a certain woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him

Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that suckled you. But he said. "No, rather blessed are those who hear 'the word' of God and keep it.

In this whole Section C of Luke's gospel he is not pairing off paragraphs as in Section B to make his specific points. Rather he moves from one paragraph to the next in his attempts to introduce and develop theological concepts. In the last few paragraphs he has introduced the sense of 'the logos' or 'the word'. He has also talked of the Heavenly Father giving a 'gift' of the Holy Spirit in the context of talking about a child asking for an egg. He has introduced the idea of the house as a household. Then he has imaged the body of a person as being 'a house'. In the above paragraph he talks of 'the womb' as a container and then the 'keeping' of 'the word'. Luke's society is largely based upon Order is more conscious of 'things' and would tend to be thinking along these lines.

11. . Seek wisdom

11:29-36

this generation

"Queen of the South"

11:29-36 As the crowds were pressing upon him he began to say "This evil generation seeks a sign. A sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonas. For even as Jonas became a sign to the Ninevites (swallowed then regurgitated by a whale) so also will the Son of man be a sign to this generation. The queen of the south will be raised in judgement with the men of this generation and will condemn them. She came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Yet behold a greater one than Solomon is here. The men of the Ninevites will rise up in judgement of this generation and

will condemn it. They at the repented at the proclamation of Jonas. And behold a greater than one than Jonas is here. No one having lit a lamp places it in a secret place nor under a bushel. But they put it on the lampstand so that people coming in may see the light. Your eye is the lamp for your body. When your eye is focussed so also the whole of your body is bright. But when it (the eye) is evil so also your body is dark. Therefore beware that whatever light is in you should be dim. If the whole of your body is bright, not with any part of it dark, then all of you will be lit up as with a lamp.