Post by Zadkiel on Jan 12, 2016 23:00:37 GMT
The "widow's son" that Jesus "resurrected in the village of Nain" was his own brother James, who, like Jesus, could be called "a widow's son" after Joseph was dead. James had to formally be restored into the community, since he had first joined the Baptist and his teaching, but then broken with it, to return to the faith of the Nazareans. He was therefore seen as "dead" by the community from which he was banned and expelled; and he now had to be "resurrected" before he could come back as a novice.
