Luke 7:13

when the Lord saw her "The Lord" is far more frequent as a title of Jesus in St Luke (Luke 7:31; Luke 10:1; Luke 11:1; Luke 12:42; Luke 17:5-6; Luke 19:8; Luke 22:61) than in the other Evangelists except St John. The fact is a sign of the spread of Christian faith. Even though St Luke's Gospel may not have been published more than a year or two after St Matthew's, yet St Luke belongs so to speak to a later generation of disciples.

he had compassion on her Jesus, who was always touched by the sight of human agony (Mark 7:34; Mark 8:12), seems to have felt a peculiar compassion for the anguish of bereavement (John 11:33-37). The fact that this youth was "the only son of his mother and she a widow" would convey to Jewish notions a deeper sorrow than it even does to ours, for they regarded childlessness as a special calamity, and the loss of offspring as a direct punishment for sin (Jeremiah 6:26; Zechariah 12:10; Amos 8:10).

weep not Rather, Be not weeping, i.e. -dry thy tears."