Luke’s Gospel

John’s confidence in Jesus had been shaken.  The man who had once been Jesus’s herald now questioned Jesus’s judgement.  How did  Jesus respond to his wavering servant and friend?

John was a man of heroic faith and courage.  Yet his faith wavered when he heard of Jesus’s miracles of grace.  How could a man, once so sure of the truth, lose his certainty?

Elijah prayed for a widow’s son to be raised from the dead.  Jesus too raised a widow’s son.  But the significance of the two events was very different.  Elijah’s miracles were signs of judgement against Israel.  The miracles of Jesus were signs of salvation.

Elijah the prophet prayed that God would raise a widow’s son from the dead and it happened!  Now Jesus raises another widow’s son.  So Jesus is a prophet like Elijah?  Yes, but so much more!

Jesus came to Nain.  There he met a widow, grieving over the death of her son.  Jesus raised the young man from the dead with a word of command.  A mourning village glimpsed the compassion of Jesus and his victory over sin, death and the curse.