Called Nain:— Nain was situated a mile or two south of Tabor, and near Endor. The apostles most probably were of the number of the disciples who went with our Lord; because it is not to be imagined, that he would suffer the chosen witnesses of his miracles to be absent, when so great a miracle was to be performed as the resurrection of a person from the dead, and to be performed so publicly, in the presence of all those who were attending the funeral. The circumstance here recorded probably happened towards the evening.

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