The story of Jesus raising the widow's son at Nain is full of drama (Luke 7:11-17). Two crowds approach each other. One coming to Nain is surrounding Jesus and there is life and hope in the air. The other crowd coming out of Nain surrounds the dead son and there is grief, sorrow and death in the air. It was the custom in Galilee for the surviving women to precede the funeral procession, so Jesus would see the widow in her suffering first of all. He would take in the scene; size up the situation; and say to the woman first of all, "Don't cry." Then he penetrates further into the heart of the crowd of death and touches the bier of the dead man and raises him up and gives him to his mother. Life swallows up death.
To me it is an emblem of the Coming of the Lord. On that day when he comes back, Jesus will be at the heart of a multitude of the Redeemed, living and alive, with voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God, and he will say to sorrowing humanity one last time, "Don't cry." And death shall have no dominion.
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Very good. Lucas wrote about 40 stories in his Gospel and that are not in the other gospels.
Grettings.
Yes, there is much material that is unique to Luke. I wonder who his sources were?
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