Luke 7:15

And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP [THE COFFIN, soros (G4673 ), WAS AN OPEN ONE], AND BEGAN TO SPEAK - evidencing that he was both alive and well. AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER. What mingled majesty and grace shines here! Behold, the Resurrection and the Life in human flesh, with a word of command, bringing back life to the dead body, and Incarnate Compassion putting forth its absolute power to dry a widow's tears....

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 HE THAT WAS DEAD,.... That had been dead, (for he was now alive,) as it was a clear case to all his relations and friends, or they would never have brought him out to bury him: SAT UP; upon the bed, or bier: and began to speak; both which, his sitting up and speaking, were plain proofs of his being brought to life: AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER; for whose sake he raised him from the dead, commiserating her case: wherefore, as Christ showed his power in raising the dead man, he discovered great humanity, kindness, and tenderness, in delivering him alive to his mother; which might be done after he came off of the bier, by taking him by the hand, and leading him to his mother, and giving him up into her arms: think what affecting scene this must be!...

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)...

HE THAT WAS DEAD. the corpse. See App-139. sat up.. medical word (Colossians 4:14). Greek _anakathizo._ Occurs only here and Acts 9:40. Common in medical writings; and found also in the Papyri, in. letter from. Christian servant to his absent master about the illness of his mistress (Milligan's _Selections,_ p. 130)....

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

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, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW: AND MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH HER. 13. AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID TO HER, WEEP NOT. 14. AND HE CAME AND TOUCHED THE BOY: AND THEY THAT BORE HIM STOOD STILL. AND HE SAID, YOUNG MAN, I SAY TO YOU, ARISE. 15. AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER. 16. AND THERE CAME A FEAR ON ALL: AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD, SAYING, THAT A GREAT PROPHET IS RISEN UP AMONG US; AND, THAT GOD HAS VISITED HIS PEOPLE. 17. AND THIS RUMOR OF HIM WENT FORTH THROUGHOUT ALL JUDEA, AND THROUGHOUT ALL THE REGION ROUND ABOUT. CYRIL; The Lord joins one miracle upo...