Luke 4:25

And in truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah. When the heaven was shut up three years and six months, how the famine was great over all the land;

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

In Context

24And He said, Truly I say unto you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

26and Elijah was sent to none of them, except to a widow woman in Sarepta of Sidon.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26For the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by race; and asked Him that He may cast the demon out of her daughter.

Romans 9:15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I do have mercy, and I will commiserate whom I do commiserate.

Ephesians 1:9having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his own good pleasure, which he purposed in himself

James 5:17Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during 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 →

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