Luke 4:25 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Luke 4:25

23 He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in ^aCapernaum, do also here in ^bYour country.’ ”

24 Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no ^aprophet is accepted in his own country.

25 But I tell you truly, ^amany widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;

26 but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

27 ^aAnd many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were ^afilled with wrath,

29 ^aand rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Luke 4:25-27

But I tell you, etc.—falling back for support on the well-known examples of Elijah and Elisha (Eliseus), whose miraculous power, passing by those who were near, expended itself on those at a distance, yea on heathens, "the two great prophets who stand at the commencement of prophetic antiquity, and whose miracles strikingly prefigured those of our Lord. As He intended like them to feed the poor and cleanse the lepers, He points to these miracles of mercy, and not to the fire from heaven and the bears that tore the mockers" [STIER].

three years and six months—So James 5:17, including perhaps the six months after the last fall of rain, when there would be little or none at any rate; whereas in I Kings 18:1, which says the rain returned "in the third year," that period is probably not reckoned.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 4:25:

1 Kings 17:17-24
Jeremiah 11:21
Daniel 12:7
Zechariah 4:11-12
Matthew 13:53
Matthew 13:54
Matthew 13:58
James 5:17

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