Widow's Son Raised

Luke tells us that the day after healing the centurion’s servant, Jesus went to a city called Nain. Nain is located in the southern part of the Galilee.

Strangely, Luke ends this story with the fact that this event brought notoriety to Jesus in “Judea and the surrounding country.” Does that mean than there was another Nain that was actually in Judea, rather than the traditional site, some 20 miles south of Capernaum? Probably not. More likely, Luke used the term “Judea” for the whole country, since his perspective was far less regional than the others. Perhaps, it was to say that the religious power base in Jerusalem took note of the event, as well as those in Nain.