Luke 4:26

Luke 4:26

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,

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Unto Zarephath (eiv Sarepta). The modern village Surafend on the coast road between Tyre and Sidon.

Unto a woman that was a widow (prov gunaika xhran). Literally, unto a woman a widow (like our vernacular widow woman). This is an illustration of the proverb from the life of Elijah (I Kings 17:8-9). This woman was in the land of Sidon or Phoenicia, a heathen, where Jesus himself will go later.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 4:26:**

Matthew 4:13
Mark 1:21
Mark 5:17
Mark 6:1
John 7:5

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