Come Spring they would have calves and after some time the calves would be taken from them and brought over on this side of the highway to the calf-barn. Then on a moonlit night the cows would cry all night for the loss. And there is surely no sadder sound then that of cows calling for their young. Even for dumb animals, the loss of young ones is a terrible loss indeed. And so it is the arbitrary aspect of the death of the young that Jesus faces up to in his miracles of raising from the dead.
Death is one thing.
The death of the young, another. And in doing so Christ lays His finger on the cause of death. And that is sin. And the young sin as well as the old. The tie, the link, is not years, but sin.