Luke 7:11

And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude.

THE RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON AT NAIN

"There are many ancient remains of Nain, proving that the place was once of considerable size."[13] It is located "on the northwestern edge of `Little Hermon,' where the ground falls into the plain of Esdraelon."[14] Just east of the city are the remains of rock sepulchres; and the extensive ruins disprove the notion that the place was merely "a humble village of mud-built houses near Nazareth."[15] Luke was altogether correct in calling the place a "city." Today the village is a rather insignificant place called Nein.

Soon afterwards ... may mean "the very next day," as this place reads in some ancient authorities (English Revised Version (1885), margin). Amazingly, only Luke recorded this wonder, the sacred authors having been most certainly restrained by the Spirit of God in what they included or left out.

[13]; ISBE, p. 2111.

[14] F. N. Peloubet, A Dictionary of the Bible (Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1912), p. 433.

[15] Roland de Vaux, The World of Jesus (Washington, D.C.: The National Geographic Society, 1967), p. 304.