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New Living Translation

Luke 7:13

When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. "Don't cry!" he said.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Burial;   Children;   Dead (People);   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Widow;   Scofield Reference Index - Resurrection;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blindness-Vision;   Christ;   Comfort;   Comfort-Misery;   Compassion;   Promises, Divine;   Sympathy-Pitilessness;   Vision;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;   Burial;   Compassion and Sympathy of Christ, the;   Miracles of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nain;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Funeral;   Love;   Luke, gospel of;   Mercy;   Miracles;   Resurrection;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Funeral;   Miracle;   Thankfulness, Thanksgiving;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Nain;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Diseases;   Healing, Divine;   Luke, Gospel of;   Mercy, Merciful;   Nain;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Incarnation;   John, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Children;   Comfort (2);   Cures;   Dead, the ;   Dominion (2);   Gentleness (2);   Lazarus;   Lord (2);   Names and Titles of Christ;   Pity;   Pity Compassion;   Popularity ;   Sorrow, Man of Sorrows;   Struggles of Soul;   Tears;   Widow ;   Womanliness;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gospels, the Synoptic;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said, “Don’t weep.”
King James Version (1611)
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and saide vnto her, Weepe not.
King James Version
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
English Standard Version
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."
New American Standard Bible
When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her and said to her, "Do not go on weeping."
New Century Version
When the Lord saw her, he felt very sorry for her and said, "Don't cry."
Amplified Bible
When the Lord saw her, He felt [great] compassion for her, and said to her, "Do not weep."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her, and said to her, "Do not weep."
Legacy Standard Bible
And when the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her and said to her, "Do not cry."
Berean Standard Bible
When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said, "Do not weep."
Contemporary English Version
When the Lord saw the woman, he felt sorry for her and said, "Don't cry!"
Complete Jewish Bible
When the Lord saw her, he felt compassion for her and said to her, "Don't cry."
Darby Translation
And the Lord, seeing her, was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, Weep not;
Easy-to-Read Version
When the Lord saw the woman, he felt very sorry for her and said, "Don't cry."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the Lord sawe her, he had compassion on her, and said vnto her, Weepe not.
George Lamsa Translation
When Jesus saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.
Good News Translation
When the Lord saw her, his heart was filled with pity for her, and he said to her, "Don't cry."
Lexham English Bible
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep!"
Literal Translation
And seeing her, the Lord felt pity over her and said to her, Stop weeping.
American Standard Version
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Bible in Basic English
And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.
Hebrew Names Version
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don't cry."
International Standard Version
When the Lord saw her, he felt compassion for her. He said to her, "You can stop crying."
Etheridge Translation
And Jeshu beheld her, and had compassion upon her, and said to her, Weep not.
Murdock Translation
And Jesus looked upon her, and had compassion on her; and he said to her, Weep not.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the Lorde sawe her, he had compassion on her, and sayde vnto her: Weepe not.
English Revised Version
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
World English Bible
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don't cry."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the Lord seeing her, was moved with tender compassion for her, and said, Weep not.
Weymouth's New Testament
The Lord saw her, was moved with pity for her, and said to her, "Do not weep."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the Lord Jhesu hadde seyn hir, he hadde reuthe on hir, and seide to hir, Nyle thou wepe.
Update Bible Version
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Do not weep.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.
New English Translation
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep."
New King James Version
When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."
New Life Bible
When the Lord saw her, He had loving-pity for her and said, "Do not cry."
New Revised Standard
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, beholding her, the Lord, was moved with compassion over her, and said to her - Be not weeping!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not.
Revised Standard Version
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when ye lorde sawe her he had compassion on her and sayde vnto her: wepe not.
Young's Literal Translation
And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, `Be not weeping;'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan the LORDE sawe her, he had copassion on her, and sayde vnto her: Wepe not.
Mace New Testament (1729)
when the Lord saw her, he was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, don't weep.
Simplified Cowboy Version
When Jesus saw her, he felt real sorry for so he said, "Don't cry ma'am."

Contextual Overview

11 Soon afterward Jesus went with his disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed him. 12 A funeral procession was coming out as he approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow's only son, and a large crowd from the village was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. "Don't cry!" he said. 14 Then he walked over to the coffin and touched it, and the bearers stopped. "Young man," he said, "I tell you, get up." 15 Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk! And Jesus gave him back to his mother. 16 Great fear swept the crowd, and they praised God, saying, "A mighty prophet has risen among us," and "God has visited his people today." 17 And the news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding countryside. 18 The disciples of John the Baptist told John about everything Jesus was doing. So John called for two of his disciples,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he: Judges 10:16, Psalms 86:5, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 103:13, Isaiah 63:9, Jeremiah 31:20, Lamentations 3:32, Lamentations 3:33, Mark 8:2, John 11:33-35, Hebrews 2:17, Hebrews 4:15

Weep not: Luke 8:52, Jeremiah 31:15, Jeremiah 31:16, John 20:13, John 20:15, 1 Corinthians 7:30, 1 Thessalonians 4:13

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 7:4 - heart Isaiah 47:9 - these two Amos 8:10 - as the Matthew 14:14 - and was Matthew 15:32 - Jesus Matthew 20:34 - Jesus Mark 1:41 - moved Mark 9:22 - have Luke 10:33 - he had John 11:21 - if Acts 20:10 - Trouble Revelation 5:5 - Weep

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:10
Noah was the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18
But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
Genesis 7:1
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
Genesis 7:2
Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created."
Genesis 7:7
He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.
Genesis 7:9
They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:18
As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.
Genesis 7:19
Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her,.... Knowing her case, that she was a widow, and had lost her only son:

and said unto her, weep not; signifying, that he would help her, which he did without being asked to do it, as usual in other cases.


 
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