The Bible Study podcast, Episode 113. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Luke in chapter 7.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Let's jump right into Luke. We left off in Luke 7,

verse 10, so we'll continue on in verse 11. Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain,

and his disciples in a large crowd went along with him. As he approached the town gate,

a dead person was being carried out, the only son of his mother,

and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her, and he said, don't cry. Then he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying

it stood still. He said, young man, I say to you get up. The dead man sat up and began to talk,

and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

They were all filled with awe and praised God. A great prophet has appeared among us, they said.

God has come to help his people. This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.

So this miracle that Jesus performs of raising a man from the dead, one of a couple times that he does this before his own resurrection, Lazarus being the most notable other one, is happening in Nain, which is probably only a couple miles from Nazareth.

And so he is in a region up in Galilee where a lot of people have already started to pay attention to him.

And so as he's going along, it says he's going along with this large crowd.

And he just happens upon this funeral.

And obviously there is sadness in a funeral.

And there's sadness that this mother has lost her son after previously losing her husband.

She has also then, with the two men being lost in that day and age, lost her support.

That's why so many verses in the Bible talk about the widows and the orphans, taking care of

those who are not able to take care of themselves. And so there's this double

loss here. And Jesus comes across this widow, and he has pity on her. And so because he can,

he raises her son from the dead. And you can imagine that this gets a lot of attention. And this is a

miracle that also God performed through Elijah in the Old Testament.

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