Only one of the Gospel accounts of the ministry of Jesus records a visit by Jesus to the town of Nain. Strangely it is Luke who wrote two volumes (Luke and Acts of the Apostles) to a man known as Theophilus (Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1).
John, who was a personal eyewitness to the ministry of Jesus, included only seven miraculous signs of Jesus in his gospel. He exaggerated for the sake of emphasis, “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written” (John 21:25 ESV). In addition to the resurrection of Jesus, John included the account of the resurrection of Lazarus in John 11.
I find it intriguing that Luke mentions this account of the resurrection of a young man as his mother was on the way to bury him. Luke was a physician who became what we might call the primary physician of the apostle Paul (Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11; see also the “We” sections of Acts where Luke is traveling with Paul.
Scholars have written about the medical language of Luke used in his two volumes.
On our visit to Israel earlier this year I stopped to make a new photo of the town of Nain on the north side of the the Hill of Moreh.
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Tom, I enjoy and appreciate your comments. Some of these things came to mind as I wrote, but I try to keep these post biblically correct but also simple enough for the average church goer who has few books, etc.
It’s interesting to me how Dr. Luke proves equally adept in the realm of Biblical Studies, as the Nain story strongly resonates with two others, both from the Hebrew Scriptures.
One is set very nearby, just on the other (southern) flank of Moreh: In the cycle of Elisha stories, we see how that prophet accepts the hospitality of the Shunnamite woman and her husband, and later restores to life their son who had died (2 Kings 4). It’s tempting to think that the narrative parallels, not to mention the geographical proximity, were to Luke both obvious and quite intentional. And, as with Nain, the name of the modern Arab village, Sulam, echoes that of the ancient one.
The other, earlier OT story, where the resonance is just as striking, is that of the widow of Zarephath in 1 Kings 17. Here it’s Elijah, who (through a transfer-of-life ritual identical to Elisha’s) raised the only son of a widow and “gave him to his mother” (identical language as in Nain)!
Through both of these stories, well-known to Luke’s readers, the miracle at Nain neatly connects Jesus with Israel’s prophets of old.