Behold (κα ιδου). The κα introduces the apodosis of the temporal sentence and has to be left out in translations. It is a common i…

The gate of the city. Cities were surrounded by walls to defend them from their enemies. They were entered through gates placed at conveni…

The only son of his mother, and she was a widow.—The two facts are obviously stated as enhancing the bitterness of the mo…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Lord joins one miracle to another. In the former instance, He came when called for, but in this, …

The cortege has already gone through the town and is on the way to the place of burial, customarily outside the town. The deceased was the “only so…

The only son of his mother. The reason which led Christ to restore the young man to life was that He saw the widow deprived of he…

Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city of Naim:

behold: there was a dead man carried out