Funerals are sad but this one doubly so. Luke tells us the dead man was the ‘only son’ of his mother and then that she was a widow (v. 12). No husband, but now the ‘only son,’ who was surely her support, had died. It was more than loneliness; it meant almost certain poverty. There were then no Social Security payments, no retirement accounts, no life insurance, no pensions. In one sense, we might say that her life had ended though her existence continued. A bleak day for a woman in Nain. And Jesus