This short passage in Luke is the first of three miracles of Jesus raising the dead…though we usually just think of the resurrection Lazarus. According to custom, the mother was walking, by herself, in front of the bier…all alone now with no one to care for her needs. As Jesus saw her it says that His heart went out to her in love and compassion because of her profound loss & hopelessness. He then did something totally against Jewish Law…He touched the funeral pallet…which tradition states would render Him ceremonially unclean. But Jesus went ahead and touched the bier, reversing death and its defilement, and told the man to get up. He then gave the son back to his mother, thus fulfilling Deuteronomy 10:18 which instructed all to have care and compassion for the least in society.
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