In the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus raises a young man from the dead in the village of Nain. Luke 7:11–17 describes Jesus arriving at Nain as a funeral procession carries out the only son of a widow. Moved by compassion, Jesus tells the woman not to weep, touches the bier and commands the young man to rise. The dead man then sits up and speaks.
Nain was a village in Galilee, traditionally identified with a site near modern Nein, roughly two miles south of Mount Tabor. The story is found only in Luke among the canonical Gospels. It is one of three accounts in which Jesus raises someone from the dead, alongside Jairus’s daughter and Lazarus.
The episode also echoes earlier biblical stories. The prophets Elijah and Elisha each restored a widow’s son to life, and Luke’s account includes the striking detail that Jesus gives the son back to his mother. The parallel presents Jesus as acting in the tradition of Israel’s prophets, while also emphasizing his own authority.
A common mix-up is Bethany, where Jesus raises Lazarus, or Capernaum, associated with Jairus’s daughter. Those are different resurrection stories in the Gospels; the widow’s son is specifically connected with Nain.