²⁴ And He said, “Verily I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.

²⁵ But I tell you in truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land.

²⁶ But unto none of them was Elijah sent, save unto Zarephath, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.