Luke 4:25
In truth, I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine had occurred throughout the entire land.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24Then he said: “Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.
26And to none of these was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord lives, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew or rain during these years, except by the words of my mouth.”
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, says the Lord.
Mark 7:26For the woman was a Gentile, by birth a Syro-Phoenician. And she petitioned him, so that he would cast the demon from her daughter.
Romans 9:15For to Moses he says: “I will pity whomever I pity. And I will offer mercy to whomever I will pity.”
Ephesians 1:9So does he make known to us the mystery of his will, which he has set forth in Christ, in a manner well-pleasing to him,
James 5:17Elijah was a mortal man like us, and in prayer he prayed that it would not rain upon the earth. And it did not rain 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 →