Luke 4:25 Cross References - Murdock

²⁵ And I tell you the truth, that there were many widows in the house of Israel, in the days of Elijah the prophet, when the heavens were closed up three years and six months, and there was a great famine in all the land:

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me, to do what I please with what belongeth to me; or is thy eye evil, because I am good?

²⁶ (the woman was a Gentile from Phenicia of Syria), and besought him, that he would expel the demon from her daughter. ²⁷ Jesus said to her: Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not becoming, to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs. ²⁸ And she replied, and said to him: Yes, my Lord: and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs. ²⁹ Jesus said to her: Go thou; because of this speech, the demon hath departed from thy daughter.

²¹ In that hour Jesus exulted in the Holy Spirit, and said: I thank thee, my Father, thou Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes: yes, my Father, for such was thy good pleasure.

¹⁵ Behold, to Moses also he said: I will have pity, on whom I will have pity; and I will be merciful, to whom I will be merciful.

²⁰ Thou, thus! Who art thou? O man; that thou repliest against God! Shall the potter's vessel say to the former of it, Why hast thou formed me so?

⁹ And he hath made us know the mystery of his pleasure, which he had before determined in himself to accomplish,

¹¹ And in him we are elected, according as he predestined us and willed, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his pleasure;

¹⁷ Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months.