Luke 7:14
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And he came and touched the bier,.... Or "bed", as the Syriac version renders it; and such was "the bier", or bed, on which one of three years old, and upward, was carried as above mentioned: so that…
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
touched the bier Rather, -the coffin." Here again, as in the case of the leper (Luk 5:12), our Lord sacrificed the mere Levitical ceremonialism, with its rules about uncleanness, to a higher law.…
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