24 He also said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.x 25 But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,y when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them except a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.z 27 And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had leprosy,* and yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”aa