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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Sarepta (Zarephath)
Luke's Greek spelling of Zarephath, a Phoenician town between Tyre and Sidon. Elijah lodged there with a widow and kept her flour and oil from running out. Later he brought her son back to life.
Luke's Greek spelling of Zarephath, a Phoenician town between Tyre and Sidon. Elijah lodged there with a widow and kept her flour and oil from running out. Later he brought her son back to life.
Sarepta is the Greek form of Zarephath, the Phoenician coastal town between Tyre and Sidon where the prophet Elijah lodged with a widow during a famine, miraculously sustaining her flour and oil and later restoring her son to life (1 Kings 17:9-24). Jesus cites the episode in his synagogue sermon at Nazareth as an example of God's mercy extended to a Gentile outsider when many widows in Israel were passed over, a comparison that provoked his hometown to try to kill him (Luke 4:25-29).
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- Luke 4:26
