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AV – compassion and life for the dead

And it came to be, the next thing, he came into a town called Nain, and his disciples were accompanying him - and a great crowd. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 7: 11--17)
 
In this section of Luke’s research report on Jesus, he has just healed “a slave, enduring wretchedness ... about to die” – following repeated command-like requests (through intermediaries) of “a certain centurion” in “Capernaum.” Now for “the next thing.”

In fact, he was then near to the gate of the town. And, look and see! A dead man was being brought out, an only son of his mother, and she herself was a widow, and an acceptable crowd from the town was with her. 

Not a slave “about to die” but “a dead man.” The only son of a widow.

And, seeing her, the Lord was compassionate towards her and said to her, “Do not weep!” 

This man Jesus did not just show compassion towards the bereaved and desolate widow…He was different from most of us. He "was compassionate towards her."

And he came near and touched the coffin, and the carriers stood. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, be risen!” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. 

The earlier incident of the centurion’s dying slave involved repeated requests from different people and from the centurion himself. This incident discloses Jesus as being compassionate within his whole being. He gives life to the dead without even being asked to help. Do you know many people like that? Compassionate and able to raise the dead. 
 
“Jesus gave him to his mother.” “Gave”? Yes. Is it not the case that he, alive and not a dead body, belonged to the one who had given him life? And the Lord of life then “gave him to his mother.” No charge; no obligation.
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In fact, fear took hold of all, and they were glorifying God, stating that, “A great prophet has risen among us.” and that, “God has visited his people.” 

“Fear”? “Fear” of the one who raised this dead man? As I write the Government of Jersey is asking Jersey’s legislature to instruct it (Jersey’s government) to provide practical assistance to certain people so that they may, in their distress, kill themselves. Should one fear the Government who will then have the power of death? Or should one “fear” the one who came to earth and said “Young man, I say to you, be risen!” And it was done – there at the city gates of Nain.

Did you notice what all of the people in the crowd were stating? They used the word Jesus had used to raise the dead man to life: “risen”. They used that word to describe the presence of Jesus there in Nain. But then they went further. They stated, “God has visited his people.” “God.”

And this word concerning him came out in the whole of Judea and all the region. 
 
What was “this word concerning him” which became known everywhere? 
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The suffering, dying slave of the Roman centurion had been distance-healed. Afterwards, the dead only-son of a widow was raised to life while in his coffin. Capernaum and Nain were of no significance in the scheme of things. Nor was the dead man, the widow, the slave, or the centurion. 

Why was this man so “compassionate” towards them? Why wasn’t he in Jerusalem – or Rome – changing the world?

Jesus will be asked that important question in the next Info AW...
 
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