Elijah and the Widow

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him: ⁹ “Get up, go to Zarephath^(A) that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman who is a widow to provide for you there.” ¹⁰ So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup and let me drink.”^{(B) 11} As she went to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”

¹² But she said, “As the Lord your God lives,^(C) I don’t have anything baked—only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil^(D) in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”^(E)

¹³ Then Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son, ¹⁴ for this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the surface of the land.’”^(F)

¹⁵ So she proceeded to do according to the word of Elijah. Then the woman, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.^{(G) 16} The flour jar did not become empty, and the oil jug did not run dry, according to the word of the Lord he had spoken through^[a] Elijah.

The Widow’s Son Raised

¹⁷ After this, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. His illness got worse until he stopped breathing.^{(H) 18} She said to Elijah, “Man of God,^(I) what do you have against me?^(J) Have you come to call attention to my iniquity^(K) so that my son is put to death?”

¹⁹ But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, brought him up to the upstairs room^(L) where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. ²⁰ Then he cried out to the Lord^(M) and said, “Lord my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son?” ²¹ Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times.^(N) He cried out to the Lord and said, “Lord my God, please let this boy’s life come into him again!”

²² So the Lord listened to Elijah, and the boy’s life came into him again, and he lived.^{(O) 23} Then Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upstairs room into the house, and gave him to his mother.^(P) Elijah said, “Look, your son is alive.”

²⁴ Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know you are a man of God^(Q) and the Lord’s word from your mouth is true.”^(R)

Ministry in Galilee

¹⁴ Then Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit,^(A) and news about him spread throughout the entire vicinity.^{(B) 15} He was teaching in their synagogues,^(C) being praised^[a] by everyone.

Rejection at Nazareth

¹⁶ He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.^(D) As usual, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day^(E) and stood up to read.^{(F) 17} The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:

²⁰ He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down.^(H) And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. ²¹ He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”^(I)

²² They were all speaking well of him^[e] and were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth; yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” ^(J)

²³ Then he said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb^[f] to me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. What we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum,^(K) do here in your hometown also.’”

²⁴ He also said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{(L) 25} But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,^(M) when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land. ²⁶ Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them except a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.^{(N) 27} And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had leprosy,^[g] and yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”^(O)

²⁸ When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. ²⁹ They got up, drove him out of town,^(P) and brought him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl him over the cliff. ³⁰ But he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.^(Q)

A Widow’s Son Raised to Life

¹¹ Afterward he was on his way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with him. ¹² Just as he neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow.^(A) A large crowd from the town was also with her. ¹³ When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her^(B) and said, “Don’t weep.” ¹⁴ Then he came up and touched the open coffin, and the pallbearers stopped. And he said, “Young man, I tell you, get up!”^(C)

¹⁵ The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.^{(D) 16} Then fear^[a] came over everyone,^(E) and they glorified God,^(F) saying, “A great prophet has risen among us,”^(G) and “God has visited^[b] his people.”^{(H) 17} This report about him went throughout Judea and all the vicinity.

²⁸ “What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

²⁹ Jesus replied, “This is the work^(A) of God—that you believe in the one he has sent.”^(B)

³⁰ “What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked. “What are you going to perform? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna^(C) in the wilderness,^(D) just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”^[a](E)

³² Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses^(F) didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ “I am^(G) the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me^(H) will ever be hungry,^(I) and no one who believes in me^(J) will ever be thirsty^(K) again. ³⁶ But as I told you, you’ve seen me,^[b] and yet you do not believe. ³⁷ Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.^{(L) 38} For I have come down from heaven,^(M) not to do my own will, but the will of him^(N) who sent me. ³⁹ This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise^(O) them up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father: ^(P) that everyone who sees the Son^(Q) and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise^(R) him up on the last day.”