Luke 4:25

And I assure you, there were many widows in Israel, in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a great famine through all the land;

1770 John Worsley 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

24But, said He, indeed I must tell you, that no prophet is well received in his own country.

26but Elias was sent to none of those widows, but to a widow-woman at Sarepta in the territory of Sidon.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26(now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation,) and she besought Him to cast out the demon from her daughter.

Romans 9:15God forbid! For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

Ephesians 1:9having made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure, which He had before purposed in Himself:

James 5:17Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land 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 →

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