Luke 4:25

In very truth I tell you there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

Montgomery New Testament

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

24"I tell you in solemn truth," he added, "that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

26"yet Elijah was not sent to any one of them, but only to a widow in Zarephath in Sidon.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26(the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Romans 9:15His words to Moses are. I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy; I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion.

Ephesians 1:9when he made known to us, I say, that good pleasure which he purposed in himself

James 5:17Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

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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