Approaching the gate of the small Galilean village of Nain, Christ met a funeral procession coming out — the body of a young man, only son of a widow, with a great crowd accompanying her. Christ had compassion on the woman: 'Do not weep.' He went up and touched the bier (rendering Himself ritually unclean in the strictest reading of the Mosaic law). The bearers stopped.
He said: 'Young man, I say to you, arise.' The dead sat up and began to speak. Christ gave him to his mother. The crowd was seized with fear and praised God: 'A great prophet has arisen among us, and God has visited his people.' This is the first of Christ's three raisings of the dead recorded in the Gospels (the widow's son, Jairus's daughter, and Lazarus). The site of Nain — at the foot of Mount Tabor — preserves a small Franciscan chapel marking the traditional spot of the encounter.