Luke 4:25
But in truth I say to you, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine occurred on all the land.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24And he said, Truly I say to you, that not one prophet is acceptable in his fatherland.
26And Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, to a widow woman of Sidon.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.
Mark 7:26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast out the demon from her daughter.
Romans 9:15For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.
Ephesians 1:9Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his desire, which he purposed within himself
James 5:17Elijah was a man of the same nature as we. And by prayer, he asked for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31
Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →