Daily Bible Reading 20th June 2026 // Luke 11-17
11 Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” 14 Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” 15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. 16 Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” 17 And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.
Christ has come in the gospel to give life to men. To be true, it was not simply by being in the flesh that He was able to do so. It is His life, death, resurrection and ascension that constitute His saving work. And it was in the decisive battle on the cross with the king of terrors that He finally vanquished death and won the victory. But, even before that decisive battle, He was using that power and exercising His Lordship in an anticipatory manner, anticipating His victory, working miracles on trust, so to speak, on the basis of the victory He was yet to win on the cross. As we sometimes go to a store to get certain goods on account and do not pay the bill till later, so also Christ went, so to speak, into the dark store of death and said, pointing to the young man of Nain, 'I'll take this on account, mark it down to Me, and I will pay later'. All His miracles in the New Testament were performed on this basis. And the price was paid fully, and honoured, in the death He died.