Luke 4:25-27

The Voice

²⁵ Think back to the prophet Elijah. There were many needy Jewish widows in his homeland, Israel, when a terrible famine persisted there for three and a half years. ²⁶ Yet the only widow God sent Elijah to help was an outsider from Zarephath in Sidon.^[a]

²⁷ It was the same with the prophet Elisha. There were many Jewish lepers in his homeland, but the only one he healed—Naaman—was an outsider from Syria.^[b]