Journey, an update from Rachelle Sperling 5-4-06

Then he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!" The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. Luke 7:14-15

With my background, growing up in a "Christian" nation and hearing Bible stories from the time of my earliest childhood, sometimes I forget how radical the message of Jesus was in his day and still is today. I was reading the verse referenced above and I wondered if the people carrying the coffin stood still out of pure shock. Touching a coffin, having contact with death, made a person unclean in the eyes of the law. How it must of shocked them when Jesus walked up and touched the coffin! But Jesus did the miraculous. Instead of taking the uncleanness of death onto himself, in His holiness he gave life back to the boy turning the unclean to clean, and bringing life from death.