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A Picture of Utter Despair
Commentators stress that Luke intentionally highlights the woman's situation as the height of tragedy. She was a widow who had now lost her "only son." As scholar A.T. Robertson notes, this was the "greatest misfortune conceivable." Beyond the emotional devastation, this loss likely meant she was now destitute, with no male relative to provide for her in that society. Jesus steps into a scene of complete hopelessness.
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Albert Barnes
On Luke 7:12
18th Century
Theologian
The gate of the city. Cities were surrounded by walls to defend them from their enemies. They were entered through gates placed at conveni…
AT Robertson
On Luke 7:12
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 7:12
19th Century
Bishop
The only son of his mother, and she was a widow.—The two facts are obviously stated as enhancing the bitterness of the mo…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 7:12
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…
John Calvin
On Luke 7:12
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Luke 7:12
17th Century
Pastor
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city of Naim:
behold: there was a dead man carried out
Matthew Henry
On Luke 7:11–18
17th Century
Minister
When the Lord saw the poor widow following her son to the grave, he had compassion on her. See Christ's power over death itself.
The gospel …