24 And he said,Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
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“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
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I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.