Luke 4:25
In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
24And he said: Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.
26And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1And Elias the Thesbite of the inhabitants of Galaad said to Achab: As the Lord liveth the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Mark 7:26For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Romans 9:15For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.
Ephesians 1:9That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,
James 5:17Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not 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 →