In this chapter we have, I. Christ confirming the doctrine he had preached in the former chapter, with two glorious miracles—the curing of one at a distance, and that was the centurion’s servant , and the raising of one to life that was dead, the widow’s son at Nain, Luke 7:11–18. II.

Some difference there is between this story of the cure of the centurion’s servant as it is related here and as we had it in Matt. 8:5, &c. There it was said that the centurion came to Christ; here it is said that he sent to him first some of the elders of the Jews , and afterwards some other…

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,…

All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Matt. 11:2–19. I. We have here the message John Baptist sent to Christ, and the return he made to it. Observe, 1.

When and where this passage of story happened does not appear; this evangelist does not observe order of time in his narrative so much as the other evangelists do; but it comes in here, upon occasion of Christ’s being reproached as a friend to publicans and sinners, to show that it was only for…