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26 But God did not send Elijah to help a widow in Israel. Instead, God sent Elijah to the country called Sidon. There he helped a widow in a place called Zarephath.[a]

27 Here is another example: When God's prophet Elisha was alive, there were many people in Israel with a bad disease of the skin. But God did not make any of them well. Instead, he made a man well who was from the country called Syria. That man was called Naaman.’[b]

28 The people in the meeting place heard what Jesus said.[c] They became very angry.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:26 We can read about this widow in 1 Kings 17:7-24.
  2. 4:27 We can read about Naaman in 2 Kings 5.
  3. 4:28 Jesus told the people in the meeting place about himself. But they did not like the things that he was saying. They refused to believe that God had sent him.