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XXIII. JESUS RAISES FROM THE DEAD THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIM.

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Chapter XXIII.

JESUS RAISES FROM THE DEAD THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIM.

[Luke 7, 11—17 ]

NOW it came to pass after this that Jesus went into a city called Naim (Fig. 73)^[1], and there went with Him His disciples and a great multitude. As He drew near the gates of the

Fig. 73. Site of ancient Naim. (Phot. Bonfils.)

city, behold, a dead man was carried out^[2], the only son of a widow. The poor mother^[3], plunged in sorrow, walked after the bier, and a number of friends and relatives accompanied her.

↑ Naim was a town of some importance about twenty miles south of Capharnaum on the main road.
↑ Carried out. It was the custom among the Jews to bury the dead on the clay of their death. The body was carried to the grave on a bier, without a cover, the mourners following the bier.
↑ The poor mother. She walked behind the bier, bowed down with grief and weeping. Her husband had died many years before, and she had not married

[1] Naim was a town of some importance about twenty miles south of Capharnaum on the main road.

[2] Carried out. It was the custom among the Jews to bury the dead on the clay of their death. The body was carried to the grave on a bier, without a cover, the mourners following the bier.

[p489-3] The poor mother. She walked behind the bier, bowed down with grief and weeping. Her husband had died many years before, and she had not married

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