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| WIDOW OF NAIN'S SON� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������������������� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, WARS OF THE JEWS, BK. 4, 9:4 �- [Simon, son of Giora] ...built a wall at a certain village called Nain....enlarged many of the caves.� Nain still exists today, going by the spelling of Nein.� It is small and has only a few homes.� When some of the modern homes were built, on several occasions their foundation has run into ancient Roman remains. | |||||||||
| [2]������������������� THE BIBLE, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:30; 6:2 [NIV] - We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us....As God's fellow workers, we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. | |||||||||
| [3]������������������� Because Luke 7:12 identifies this woman as a widow, her husband having died a few years earlier, the author is selecting a disease that is passed down from father to child ~ cystic fibrosis.� The Bible, however, does not identify the disease by which either father or son died. | |||||||||
| [4]������������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:11 - Not long after that, Jesus went to the village Nain.� His disciples were with him, along with quite a large crowd. | |||||||||
| [5]������������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:12 - As they approached the village gate, they met a funeral procession ~ a woman's only son was being carried out for burial.� And the mother was a widow. | |||||||||
| [6]������������������� All cases of Jesus speaking that are not in the Bible are italicized and used only sparingly to add continuity to the narrative of events. | |||||||||
| [7]������������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:13 - When Jesus saw her, his heart broke.� He said to her, "Don't cry." | |||||||||
| [8]������������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:14a - Then he went over and touched the coffin. | |||||||||
| [9]������������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:14 - He said, "Young man, I tell you:� Get up." | |||||||||
| [10]����������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:15a - The dead son sat up and began talking. | |||||||||
| [11]����������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:15b - Jesus presented him to his mother. | |||||||||
| [12]����������������� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:1-3, 14 [NIV] - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that was made....The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. | |||||||||
| [13]����������������� THE BIBLE, JOHN 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life." | |||||||||
| [14]����������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:16 - They all realized they were in a place of holy mystery, that God was at work among them.� They were quietly worshipful.... | |||||||||
| [15]����������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 7:17 - ....then noisily grateful, calling out among themselves, "God is back, looking to the needs of his people!"� The news of Jesus spread all through the country. | |||||||||
| [16]����������������� The word translated "say" comes from the Greek word "lego" which refers to an opinion rather than an order.� (See Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, Zondervan Publishing House) | |||||||||
| [17]����������������� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 11:28 - "Are you tired?� Worn out?� Burned out on religion?� Come to me.� Get away with me and you'll recover your life.� I'll show you how to take a real rest." | |||||||||