Luke 7:11 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” 14 Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” 15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. 16 Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” 17 And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.
As we follow after Jesus in this Gospel, we find that he had a knack for interacting with those whom others would tend to ignore. The chapter begins with Him healing the servant of a Roman Centurion without even being in the room. Most religious leaders would have avoided such a Gentile. In the paragraph above, we find him taking time to interact with a widow He did not know, having compassion on her, and raising her son from death. Anyone else would have viewed her as "someone else's responsibility. Following this, Jesus is met by servants of John the Baptist, viewed by many as crazy, and He speaks up in John's defense and chastises them for ignoring him. Finally, in this chapter, when Jesus is in the home of a pharisee, he is anointed by a woman with a bad reputation. When she, and Jesus, are criticized for such behavior, Jesus rebukes His host for his poor hospitality and comes to the defense of the woman. Jesus went out of his way to look for those who are overlooked. Do we?
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