²⁴ Amen, I say to you,” he went on, “no prophet is accepted in his own country.

^25 [a]“I tell you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the skies remained closed for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. ²⁶ Yet it was to none of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in the land of Sidon.