John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 7:12
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city ,.... Of Naim: behold: there was a dead man carried out ; of the city; for they, used not to bury in cities, but in places without, and at some distance: the burying places of the Jews were not near, their cities F18 T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 80. 2. Gloss. ; and they had different ways of carrying them out to be buried, according to their different ages: a child under a month old was carried out in the bosom of a person; if a full month... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 7:11
And it came to pass the day after ,.... The Vulgate Latin reads "afterward", not expressing any day, as in Luke 8:1 , but the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, read to the same sense as we, the day after, the next day, on the morrow, after he had cured the centurion's servant in Capernaum, where he staid all night: that he went into a city called Naim ; which Jerom F16 Tom. 1. ad Marcellum, fol. 44. B. & Epitaph. Paulae. fol. 60. A. places near Mount Tabor, and... read more