15And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. …
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)We have here the story of Christ’s raising to life a widow’s son at Nain, that was dead and in the carrying out to be buried, which Matthew and Mark had made no mention of; only, in the general, Matthew had recorded it, in Christ’s answer to the disciples of John, that the dead were raised up, Matt. 11:5. Observe, I. Where, and when, this miracle was wrought. It was the next day after he had cured…
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