Luke 7:13

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER. This sublime appellation of Jesus - "the Lord" - is more usual, as Bengel notes, with Luke and John than Matthew, while Mark holds the mean. HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT. What consolation to thousands of the bereaved has this single verse carried from age to age!...

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, Arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light and life. When Christ put life into him, it appeared by the youth's sitting up. Have we grace from Christ? Let us show it. He began to speak: whenever Christ gives us spiritual life, he opens the lips in prayer and praise. When dead souls are raised to spiritual life, by Divine power going with the gospel, we must glorify God, and look upon it as a gracious visit to his people. Let us seek for such an interest in our compassionate Saviour, that we may look forward with joy to the time when the Redeemer's voice shall call forth all that are in their graves. May we be called to the resurrection of life, not to that of damnation....

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 discourse evidently occupied a position of its own in the public ministry of the Lord. Its great length, its definite announcement of the kind of reign he was inaugurating over the hearts of men, its stern rebuke of the dominant religious teaching of the day, its grave prophetic onlooks,—all marked it out as the great manifesto of the new Master, and as such it seems to have been generally received. HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM. The residence of Jesus, as we have before pointed out, during the greater part of hi

AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER,.... Knowing her case, that she was a widow, and had lost her only son: AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT; signifying, that he would help her, which he did without being asked to do it, as usual in other cases....

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. (Luke 7:24) 5. The Unreasonableness of Unbelief. (Luke 7:30 .) 6. The Woman With the Alabaster Box. (Luke 7:36) 7. The Parable of the Two Debtors. (Luke 7:41 .)...

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-' daughter, and represents the intermediate step between that incident and the raising of Lazarus (John 11). There is no mention of faith on anyone's part. Loisy rather fancifully sees in it a symbol of Jesus-' work in saving Israel. The widow represents the daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) losing her only son (Israel) and miraculously regaining him through Jesus. May we trace the influence of 1 Kings 17:17 and 2 Kings 4:33? Shunem was within half an hour of Nain, a little town, eight miles S.W. from Nazareth, on a hill overlooking the va

A SOLDIER'S FAITH (Luke 7:1-10)...

THE LORD. This Divine title more frequent in Luke than in any of the other Gospels. See verses: Luke 7:19; Luke 7:31; Luke 7:1; Luke 11:1; Luke 12:42; Luke 17:5; Luke 17:6; Luke 19:8; Luke 19:22. aLuke

_when the Lord saw her_ "The Lord" is far more frequent as a title of Jesus in St Luke (Luke 7:31; Luke 10:1; Luke 11:1; Luke 12:42; Luke 17:5-6; Luke 19:8; Luke 22:61) than in the other Evangelists except St John. The fact is a sign of the spread of Christian faith. Even though St Luke's Gospel may not have been published more than a year or two after St Matthew's, yet St Luke belongs so to speak to a later generation of d

THE RAISING OF THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN...