Jesus Raises the Widow’s Son at Nain | Luke 7:11–17

The widow woman, she's only got one son.

And this son now dies.

And We have to understand it wasn't an accident that the Lord was there meeting that procession exactly the moment they were coming out of the city gate.

The Lord was coming in to the city gate.

And He had come from the lakeside of Capernaum, we saw last week.

and where the day before he had healed the centurion's son, and now he must have had a very early start.

The day was, it was a long journey.

It was approximately 40 kilometers.

So they estimate because it was hilly and rough, rough terrain, that it must have taken between nine and 11 hours to walk that.

So the Lord must have, and he didn't go alone.

There came his disciples and much people, much people, even tax collectors, even people that were just coming to see what he was going to do.

Now, he arrives at the city and these great multitudes that were with him, they probably outnumbered the people of the, the Bible calls it the city of Nain, the translators, but the original is a town.

It was a small town.

And so this town now, more people arrive than they've seen in a long time.

And they meet the procession.

Here's the grieving mother.

Oh, she has lost her husband.

And now the loss of her son.

And the Lord sees her.

Two processions.

One being led by mourners.

People mourning.

Crying, lamenting, the other being led by the Prince of Life, Jesus Christ.

And they're following him in expectation.

The two processions meet.