Luke 7,11-17 Nov 2 – 25 "Life Restored: The Widow’s Son and the Jesus Miracle"

Send us Fan MailThere are three stories in the Gospels where Jesus raises someone from the dead.  We have the story of Lazarus being raised (John 11:38-44), Jarius’ 12-year-old daughter being raised as recorded in (Mark 5:21-43, Luke 8:40 and Matthew 9:18-26) and now in today’s Gospel we hear about Jesus raising the son of a widow in a town called Nain.  What is interesting in this Gospel is how few facts we have about the story.  In the two previous resurrection stories we have names, and we are made aware of some background information, and we are provided teachings but not here.  It’s clear that this resurrection was not planned.  If Jesus had arrived an hour earlier or the funeral was an hour later there would have been no miracle.  What does this mean?Complete our 1 Minute Survey