<p>4:26 <i>And to none of them was Elijah sent, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman that was a widow</i>- In the context of :27, the implication would be that this woman too was a Gentile. Even at the start of His ministry, the Lord stressed Gentile acceptance. This was not simply because He realized Israel would reject Him and the door thereby opened to the Gentiles; but because He understood that the good news of the Hope of Israel was in fact good news for the Gentile world if they embraced that hope.</p>