ISB ~ Luke 7 v14

touched the bier:A shocking gesture. Although the Mosaic Law warns that contact with the dead renders Israelites unclean for an entire week (Num 19:11-19), Jesus reverses this expected outcome with his powerful word, arise. By bringing the dead to life again, he eliminates the very cause of legal defilement and therefore its undesired effects. Jesus elsewhere raises Jairus’ daughter (Lk 8:40-56) and Lazarus (Jn 11:17-27) as signs of the Messiah’s arrival (Lk 7:22; CCC 994).