“Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.”
As he approached the town gate, a dead man was being carried out — the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her — the two processions meet at the gate: Jesus and his crowd coming in, the funeral procession coming out. The dead man is the only son of his widowed mother — the double loss (widow, only son) communicates the completeness of the woman's desolation. In the ancient world, a widow without a son had no economic support and no social protection.
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