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Luke 7:11
And it came to pass the day after that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him and much people.
And it came to pass the day after that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him and much people.
LUKE 7:11 evn tw|/ e`xh/j {B} With evn th|/ e`xh/j the reader is to supply h`me,ra| (“on the next day”); with evn tw|/ e`xh/j one supplies cro,nw| (“[soon] afterward”). Elsewhere, however, when Luke...
Verse Luke 7:11. _NAIN_] A small city of Galilee, in the tribe of Issachar. According to Eusebius, it was two miles from Mount Tabor, southward; and near to Endor....
A CITY CALLED NAIN - This city was in Galilee, in the boundaries of the tribe of Issachar. It was about two miles south of Mount Tabor, and not far from Capernaum; It is now a small village inhabited...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Centurion's Servant Healed. (Luke 7:1 .)_ 2. The Widow's Son Raised from the Dead. (Luke 7:11) 3. John's Questions and the Answer. (Luke 7:18) 4. The Testimony Concerning John. ...
THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN (Lk. only). This incident is conditioned by the reply to the Baptist's inquiry in Luke 7:22, the dead are raised up. It is more difficult than the story of Jairus-' daught...
Next, after that, Jesus was on his way to a town called Nain; and his disciples and a great crowd accompanied him on the journey. When he came near the gate of the town--look you--a man who had died w...
A SOLDIER'S FAITH (Luke 7:1-10)...
VERSES 11-17 peculiar to Luke. Selected because it is connected with the Lord's Person as God-raiser of the dead; and as Man-full of compassion. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6),...
11-17. The raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain. 11. _the day after_ If the reading τῇ be right we must understand ἡμέρᾳ, -day." Some MSS. (ABL, &c.) read τῷ, which would give a wider limit of time...
THE RAISING OF THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN...
ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ἙΞΗ͂Σ, ‘the next day,’ אCD, La[148] Ti[149] But in this phrase St Luke seems to omit ἐν (Acts 21:1; Acts 25:17, &c.; comp. Luke 9:37). AB read ἐν τῷ ἑξῆς, ‘afterwards’. [148] La. Lachmann. [1...
Ver 11. And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. 12. Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, th...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, случаться (_см._ Luke 2:1). ΈΞΗΣ (G1836) _adv._ времени следующий, в последовательности, на следующий день, потом (BAGD). ΈΠΟΡΕΎΘΗ _ao...
CALLED NAIN:— Nain was situated a mile or two south of Tabor, and near Endor. The apostles most probably were of the number of the _disciples who went with our Lord;_ because it is not to be imagined,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 The Sorrowing (Luke 7:11-17) 11 Soon afterward he went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12As he drew near to the gate of the city...
And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his d...
2 What He has said has neither interpretation nor application to nations outside the Israelitish fold. None of those present could so have understood His words, for their prejudice against the gentile...
7:11 afterwards (b-6) Or 'on the following [day].' see ch. 9.37....
THE RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON (peculiar to Lk). On the credibility and significance of Christ's miracles of resurrection, consult Matthew 9:18; John 11:1....
RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON. THE WOMAN WHO WAS A SINNER 1-10. Healing of the centurion's servant. See on Matthew 8:5....
NAIN] 25 m. SW. of Capernaum on the hill 'little Hermon' as it slopes down to the plain of Esdraelon: now a squalid collection of mud-hovels. MUCH PEOPLE] RV 'a great multitude.' Lazarus also was rais...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 THE *FAITH OF AN ARMY OFFICER 7:1-10 V1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum. V2 In that town, an of...
HE WENT INTO A CITY CALLED NAIN. — The narrative that follows is peculiar to St. Luke. The name of the city has survived, with hardly any alteration, in the modern _Nein._ It lies on the north-western...
_The son of the widow of Nain_. In Lk. only. ἐν τῷ ἑξῆς (καιρῷ), in the following time, thereafter; vague. ἐν τῇ ἑ. would mean: on the following _day_ (ἡμέρᾳ, understood), _i.e._, the day after the he...
“GOD HATH VISITED HIS PEOPLE” Luke 7:11-23 Nain lay near the plain of Esdraelon, on the slopes of Little Hermon. Two confluent streams met there-those with Christ and those with death, Luke 7:11-12....
Here our Lord passed over the national boundary to bring blessing to the household of a Roman centurion. Of that man the elders said, "He is worthy." The man said, "I am not worthy." Jesus Said, "I ha...
(2) And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called (a) Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. (2) Christ openly affirms his power over death. (a) Nain is...
_Naim is a city of Galilee, about two miles from Mount Thabor. It was by divine dispensation, that so very great a multitude was present on this occasion, in order to witness this stupendous miracle....
RAISING THE WIDOW'S SON Luke 7:11-17. “And it came to pass consecutively, He was going into a city called Nain, and many disciples of His, and a great multitude, were accompanying Him. And when He dre...
3. _The Son of the Widow of Nain: Luke 7:11-17_. The following narrative is one of those which clearly reveal our Lord's tenderness of heart, and the power which human grief exerted over Him. The hist...
Luke 7:11-12. _The Meeting._ The reading ἐν τῷ ἑξῆς (χρόνῳ), _in the following time_, does not connect this narrative so closely with the preceding as the reading ἐν τῇἑξῆς (ἡμέρᾳ), _the following day...
(11) And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain: and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. (12) Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, Behold, ther...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_THE PRINCE OF LIFE_ ‘He went into a city called Rain.’ Luke 7:11 The Gospels tell us of Jesus raising three people to life—an only daughter, an only brother, and an only son; these three are clear...
Luke 7:11._And it happened, that he went into a city. _In all the miracles of Christ, we must attend to the rule which Matthew lays down. We ought to know, therefore, that this young man, whom Christ...
Hence, after this, we find the Spirit acting in the heart of a Gentile (chapter 7). That heart manifested more faith than any among the children of Israel. Humble in heart, and loving the people of Go...
AND IT CAME TO PASS THE DAY AFTER,.... The Vulgate Latin reads "afterward", not expressing any day, as in Luke 8:1, but the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, read to the same sense as we,...
And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. Ver. 11. _A city called Nain_] A fair town not far from Tiberias, an...
_He went into a city called Nain_ A town situated about a mile or two south of Tabor, and near Endor. _And many of his disciples went with him_ Among these, doubtless, were the twelve appointed to be...
NAIN; in Galilee, south-west from Capernaum....
A CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED (vs.1-10) The Lord then came to Capernaum and there was appealed to by a Gentile, a Roman centurion, by means of the mediatorship of Jewish elders. In contrast to this a...
11-18 When the Lord saw the poor widow following her son to the grave, he had compassion on her. See Christ's power over death itself. The gospel call to all people, to young people particularly, is,...
Ver. 11-15. Luke alone gives us an account of this miracle of our Saviour s. Matthew mentions only the raising from the dead of Jairus's daughter. Luke adds this. John adds that of Lazarus, 1 THESSALO...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV having come to weaken and destroy it rather than to approve of it. He raised also the widow's son from death.[663]...
Luke 7:11 Now G2532 happened G1096 (G5633) G1722 after G1836 went G4198 (G5711) into G1519 city...
‘And it came about soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great crowd.' Jesus' popularity with the ordinary people continued, and a great crowd fol...
Luke 7:11-17. THE RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON AT NAIN. Peculiar to Luke. Of course the silence of the other Evangelists is no argument against the truthfulness of Luke's account. As compared with the o...
Luke 7:11. SOON AFTERWARDS. The change of a single letter alters the sense ‘the day after' to ‘soon afterwards,' which is probably the correct reading. NAIN, Na'-in. The name occurs nowhere else in S...
CHRONOLOGY. The healing of the centurion's servant at Capernaum followed the discourse recorded in the last chapter, no event of which we have any account intervening. (See on Matthew 8:1 ff.) The rai...
SOON AFTERWARDS (εν το εξης). According to this reading supply χρονω, time. Other MSS. read τη εξης (supply ημερα, day). Hεξης occurs in Luke and Acts in the N.T. though old adverb of time.THAT ...
CONTENTS: Centurion's servant healed. Widow's son raised. Questions from John the Baptist in prison and Jesus' testimony. Jesus annointed in the Pharisee's house. Parable of the creditor and two debto...
Luke 7:2. _A certain centurion's servant._ As soon as this officer heard of Christ, he believed in him, having been assured of the miracles by competent witnesses. Being a gentile, he sent the rulers...
_And it came to pass the day after that He went into a city called Nain_ THE FUNERAL OF A YOUTH The miracle requires a few REMARKS and a few REFLECTIONS. I. The first thing we behold is a FUNERAL PR...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 7:1 Luke helps his readers answer the question “Who is this...?” (v. Luke 7:49) by recounting two healing miracles (vv. Luke
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 7:11 This miracle, involving a widow’s son, recalls a similar miracle by Elijah (1 Kings 17:17)....
_And it came to pass the day after that He went into a city called Nain_. A city of Galilee two miles distant from Mount Tabor, situated on the river Kison, and called Nain, from the Hebrew word which...
CHAPTER 7 VER.1. _Now when he had ended_ (or fulfilled) _all his sayings_....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 7:1. IN THE AUDIENCE.—Lit. “in the ears of the people” (R.V.). Luke 7:2. SERVANT.—_I.e._ slave. WHO WAS DEAR UNTO HIM.—Or, “who was in much esteem with him.” This is peculiar to...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 7:12. CARRIED OUT.—Places of burial were outside the towns, to avoid ceremonial defilement. Luke 7:13. THE LORD.—This title for Jesus is much more frequently found in the third...
EXPOSITION LUKE 7:1 The _servant _(_or slave_)_ of the centurion of Capernaum is healed._ LUKE 7:1 NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS. This clearly refers to the sermon on the mount. That great...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 7. At this point in Luke's gospel he is going to give us series of events, miracles that transpired in the life of Jesus. When he ended these say...
Acts 10:38...
The day after [ε ν τ η ε ξ η ς]. Others read ejn tw eJxhv, soon after. So Rev. Luke's usage favors the latter. Nain. Mentioned nowhere else in the Bible. "On the northern slope of the rugged and barre...
THE RAISING OF THE WIDOWS SON Luke 7:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Events crowded rapidly into the life of our blessed Lord. His days of service in behalf of the sick, the blind, the lame, the halt, the ma...
There were three persons raised from death to life by the powerful word of Christ's mouth; namely, Jairus's daughter, mentioned by St. Matthew; Lazarus recorded by St. John; and here the widow's son,...