Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 7:15

And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.

KJV

καὶ ἀνεκάθισεν ὁ νεκρὸς καὶ ἤρξατο λαλεῖν, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὸν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ.

Greek NT

Et resedit qui erat mortuus, et cœpit loqui. Et dedit illum matri suæ.

Vulgate

And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

ASV

And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
μήτηρ
meter
noun · 84×
νεκρός
nekros
adjective · 128×
ἀνακαθίζω
anakathizo
verb · 2×
ἄρχομαι
archomai
verb · 85×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§545Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."258 He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast "joy in heaven over one sinner who repents".259 The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life…
§994But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life."542 It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood.543 Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life,544 announcing thereby …

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 17:23 — And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
  • 2Kgs 13:21 — And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Eli
  • John 11:44 — And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.