Touched the bier (
hpsato tou sorou). An urn for the bones or ashes of the dead in Homer, then the coffin (
Genesis 5:26 ), then the funeral couch or bier as here. Only here in the N.T. Jesus touched the bier to make the bearers stop, which they did (
stood still,
esthsan), second aorist active indicative of
isthmi.