Elijah raises a widow’s child, providing an important prophetic precedent for restored child-life. Luke has already evoked Elijah in the raising at Nain; Jairus’ daughter continues and intensifies the life-over-death pattern around Jesus.

Elisha restores the Shunammite woman’s child. Luke’s scene belongs to the same prophetic life-restoration pattern, while Jesus’ simple command and immediate result emphasize his distinctive authority.

Contact with a corpse carried ritual impurity under Torah. Jesus takes the dead child by the hand and life, rather than uncleanness or death, is the narrative outcome. Luke does not pause to make a legal argument, so the purity reversal should be presented as canonical resonance.