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Luke 7:11

Luke 7:11
And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And it came to pass the day after,.... The Vulgate Latin reads "afterward", not expressing any day, as in Luk 8:1, but the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, read to the same sense as we,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

A city called Nain - This city was in Galilee, in the boundaries of the tribe of Issachar. It was about two miles south of Mount Tabor, and not far from Capernaum; It is now a small village inhabited…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Nain - A small city of Galilee, in the tribe of Issachar.

According to Eusebius, it was two miles from Mount Tabor, southward; and near to Endor.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 7:11-18

We have here the story of Christ's raising to life a widow's son at Nain, that was dead and in the carrying out to be buried, which Matthew and Mark had made no mention of; only, in the general,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

11-17. The raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain.

11. the day after If the reading τῇ be right we must understand ἡμέρᾳ, -day." Some MSS. (ABL, &c.) read τῷ, which would give a wider limit of time.…