Luke 4:25
I guarantee that there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah when there was a drought for three and a half years, causing a great famine throughout the country.
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24But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
26Yet Elijah wasn't sent to any of them. He was sent to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1Elijah the Tishbite (from Tishbe in Gilead), told Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, the one I serve, in the years to come there will not be any dew or rain unless I say so!”
Isaiah 55:8For your thoughts are not my thoughts; and your ways are not my ways, declares the Lord.
Mark 7:26The woman was Greek, born in Syrophoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive out the demon from her daughter.
Romans 9:15As he said to Moses, “I will be merciful to whoever I should show mercy, and I will have compassion on whoever I should show compassion.”
Ephesians 1:9He revealed to us his previously-hidden will through which he was happy to pursue his plan
James 5:17Elijah was a man who had the same human nature as we do. He prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three and a half years.
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 →