Luke 4:26-28
EasyEnglish Bible
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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- 4:26 We can read about this widow in 1 Kings 17:7-24.
- 4:27 We can read about Naaman in 2 Kings 5.
- 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.
Luke 4:26-28
New International Version
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.(A) 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy[a] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”(B)
28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.
Footnotes
- Luke 4:27 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
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