was a widow

Luke 4:26

4:26 was a widow. Christ’s reference here is to Elijah’s miraculous ministry to the widow of Zarephath and her son (I Kings 17:8-24), a woman who lived in Sidon rather than Israel, and who not only was hospitable to him, but acknowledged that he was a prophet of the true God.

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