Luke 7:13. And when the Lord saw her. The title ‘Lord' is peculiarly fitting here. Luke uses it more frequently than Matthew and Mark.

Weep not. The first sign of compassion; and a token of coming help. Doubtless His words awakened faith the same words, though not now followed by such a miracle, are ever applicable, for our Lord, by His death and resurrection, has become ‘the Resurrection and the Life' in the highest sense, always affording to His people a ground for the command, ‘weep not,' of which this miracle was only a sign.

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Old Testament