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;
Ver. 25. Many widows were in Israel] q.d. God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, &c. He is a free agent, and may do with his own as he pleaseth. If the prophets, by the Spirit's direction, healed and helped foreigners sooner than Israelites, what so great wonder that Christ did not for his own country that which he did for others?