Luke 7:11Soon afterwards (en toi hexēs). According to this reading supply chronōi, time. Other MSS. read tēi hexēs (supply hēmerāi, day). Hexēs occurs in Luke and Acts in the N.T. though old adverb of time.That (Hoti). Not in the Greek, the two verbs egeneto and eporeuthē having no connective (asyndeton).Went with him (suneporeuonto autōi). Imperfect middle picturing the procession of disciples and the crowd with Jesus. Nain is not mentioned elsewhere in the N.T. There is today a hamlet about two miles west of Endor on the north slope of Little Hermon. There is a burying-place still in use. Robinson and Stanley think that the very road on which the crowd with Jesus met the funeral procession can be identified.Luke 7:12Behold (kai idou). The kai introduces the apodosis of the temporal sentence and has to be left out in translations. It is a common idiom in Luke, kai idou.There was carried out (exekomizeto). Imperfect passive indicative. Common verb in late Greek for carrying out a body for burial, though here only in the N.T. (ekkomizō). Rock tombs outside of the village exist there today.One that was dead (tethnēkōs). Perfect active participle of thnēskō, to die.The only son of his mother (monogenēs huios tēi mētri autoū). Only begotten son to his mother (dative case). The compound adjective monogenēs (monos and genos) is common in the old Greek and occurs in the N.T. about Jesus (Joh 3:16, Joh 3:18). The “death of a widow’s only son was the greatest misfortune conceivable” (Easton).And she was a widow (kai autē ēn chēra). This word chēra gives the finishing touch to the pathos of the situation. The word is from chēros, bereft. The mourning of a widow for an only son is the extremity of grief (Plummer).Much people (ochlos hikanos). Considerable crowd as often with this adjective hikanos. Some were hired mourners, but the size of the crowd showed the real sympathy of the town for her.Luke 7:13The Lord saw her (idōn autēn ho kurios). The Lord of Life confronts death (Plummer) and Luke may use Kurios here purposely.Had compassion (esplagchthē). First aorist (ingressive) passive indicative of splagchnizomai. Often love and pity are mentioned as the motives for Christ’s miracles (Mat 14:14; Mat 15:32, etc.). It is confined to the Synoptics in the N.T. and about Christ save in the parables by Christ.Weep not (mē klaie). Present imperative in a prohibition. Cease weeping.Luke 7:14Touched the bier (hēpsato tou sorou). An urn for the bones or ashes of the dead in Homer, then the coffin (Gen 5:26), then the funeral couch or bier as here. Only here in the N.T. Jesus touched the bier to make the bearers stop, which they did (stood still, estēsan), second aorist active indicative of histēmi.Luke 7:15Sat up (anekathisen). First aorist active indicative. The verb in the N.T. only here and Act 9:40. Medical writers often used it of the sick sitting up in bed (Hobart, Med. Lang. of St. Luke, p. 11). It is objected that the symmetry of these cases (daughter of Jairus raised from the death-bed, this widow’s son raised from the bier, Lazarus raised from the tomb) is suspicious, but no one Gospel gives all three (Plummer).Gave him to his mother (edōken auton tēi mētri autou). Tender way of putting it. “For he had already ceased to belong to his mother” (Bengel). So in Luk 9:42.Luke 7:16Fear seized all (elaben de phobos pantas). Aorist active indicative. At once.They glorified God (edoxazon ton theon). Imperfect active, inchoative, began and increased.Luke 7:17This report (ho logos houtos). That God had raised up a great prophet who had shown his call by raising the dead.Luke 7:18And the disciples of John told him (kai apēggeilan Iōanēi hoi mathētai autou). Literally, and his disciples announced to John. Such news (Luk 7:17) was bound to come to the ears of the Baptist languishing in the dungeon of Machaerus (Luk 3:20). Luke 7:18-35 runs parallel with Matthew 11:2-19, a specimen of Q, the non-Marcan portion of Matthew and Luke.
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