24 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, (A)no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when (B)the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 26 and Elijah was sent to none of them (C)but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And (D)there were many lepers[a] in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, (E)but only Naaman the Syrian.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:27 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

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