SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:11
¶ Y aconteci el día despus, que l iba a la ciudad que se llama Naín, e iban con l muchos de sus discípulos, y gran multitud.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 7:11
Verse 11. 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. And it came to pass the day after , etc.] The Vulgate Latin reads afterward, not expressing any day, as in ( Luke 8:1), but the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, read to the same sense as we, the day after, the next day, on the morrow, after he had cured the centurion's servant in Capernaum, where he staid all night: that he went into a city called Naim ; which Jerom places near Mount Tabor, and the river Kison. The Jews speak of a Naim in, the tribe of Issachar, so called from its pleasantness, and which seems to be the same place with this. The Persic version reads it, Nabetis, or Neapolis, the same With Sychem in Samaria, but without reason: and many of his disciples went with him ; not only the twelve, but many others: and much people ; from Capernaum, and other parts, that followed him to see his miracles, or for one end or another, though, they did not believe in him; at least these were only hearers, and had, not entered themselves among the disciples, Ver. 12. Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city , etc.] Of Naim: behold: there was a dead man carried out ; of the city; for they, used not to bury in cities, but in places without, and at some distance: the burying places of the Jews were not near, their cities f281 ; and they had different ways of carrying them out to be buried, according to their different ages: a child under a month old was carried out in the bosom of a person; if a full month old, in a little coffin, which they carried in their arms; one of a twelve month old was carried in a little coffin on the shoulder; and one of three years old on a bier or bed, and so upwards; and in this manner was this corpse carried out: who was the only son of his mother ; hence the sorrow and mourning were the greater; (see Zechariah 12:10) and she was a widow ; and if she had been supported by her son, her loss was very considerable; and having neither husband, nor son, to do for her, her case was very affecting: and much people of the city was with her ; according to the age of persons was the company that attended them to the grave: if it was an infant, not a month old, it was buried by one woman, and two men, but not by one man, and two women; if a month old, by men and women; and whoever was carried out on a bier or bed, many mourned for him; and whoever was known to many, many accompanied him f283 ; and which was the case this dead man: he seems to have been well known and respected by the company that attended him to his grave; of these some were bearers, and these had their deputies, and these again theirs; for as they carried their dead a great way, they were obliged often to change their bearers; and of the company, some went before the bier, and others went after it f284 : besides, what served to increase company at a funeral was, that it was looked upon as an act of kindness and mercy to follow a corpse to the grave f285 ; to which may be added, and what must always tend to increase the number at such a time, that, according to the Jewish canons f286 it was forbidden to do any work at the time a dead man was buried, even one of the common people.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-18 - When the Lord saw the poor widow following her son to the grave, he ha compassion on her. See Christ's power over death itself. The gospe call to all people, to young people particularly, is, Arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light and life. When Christ put lif into him, it appeared by the youth's sitting up. Have we grace from Christ? Let us show it. He began to speak: whenever Christ gives u spiritual life, he opens the lips in prayer and praise. When dead soul are raised to spiritual life, by Divine power going with the gospel, we must glorify God, and look upon it as a gracious visit to his people Let us seek for such an interest in our compassionate Saviour, that we may look forward with joy to the time when the Redeemer's voice shal call forth all that are in their graves. May we be called to the resurrection of life, not to that of damnation.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ εγενετο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3S εν 1722 PREP τη 3588 T-DSF εξης 1836 ADV επορευετο 4198 5711 V-INI-3S εις 1519 PREP πολιν 4172 N-ASF καλουμενην 2564 5746 V-PPP-ASF ναιν 3484 N-PRI και 2532 CONJ συνεπορευοντο 4848 5711 V-INI-3P αυτω 846 P-DSM οι 3588 T-NPM μαθηται 3101 N-NPM αυτου 846 P-GSM ικανοι 2425 A-NPM και 2532 CONJ οχλος 3793 N-NSM πολυς 4183 A-NSM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
11. The day after (en th exhv). Others read ejn tw eJxhv, soon after. So Rev. Luke's usage favors the latter.Nain. Mentioned nowhere else in the Bible. "On the northern slope of the rugged and barren ridge of Little Hermon, immediately west of Endor, which lies in a further recess of the same range, is the ruined village of Nain. No convent, no tradition marks the spot. But, under these circumstances, the name alone is sufficient to guarantee its authenticity. One entrance alone it could have had - that which opens on the rough hillside in its downward slope to the plain. It must have been in this steep descent, as, according to Eastern custom, they 'carried out the dead man,' that, 'nigh to the gate' of the village, the bier was stopped, and the long procession of mourners stayed, and 'the young man delivered back to his mother'" (Stanley, "Sinai and Palestine"). "It is in striking accord with the one biblical incident in the history of Nain that renders it dear to the Christian heart, that about the only remains of antiquity are tombs. These are cut in the rock, and are situated on the hillside to the east of the village" (Thomson, "Land and Book").
Robertson's NT Word Studies
7:11 {Soon afterwards} (en toi hexes). According to this reading supply cronwi, time. Other MSS. read ti hexes (supply hemerai, day). hexes occurs in Luke and Acts in the N.T. though old adverb of time. {That} (hoti). Not in the Greek, the two verbs egeneto and eporeuqe having no connective (asyndeton). {Went with him} (suneporeuonto autwi). Imperfect middle picturing the procession of disciples and the crowd with Jesus. Nain is not mentioned elsewhere in the N.T. There is today a hamlet about two miles west of Endor on the north slope of Little Hermon. There is a burying-place still in use. Robinson and Stanley think that the very road on which the crowd with Jesus met the funeral procession can be identified.
