Question: Who performed a miracle from a widow’s oil?
Answer: Elisha. (II Kings 4:1-7)
Comments: A widow with two sons was in debt to creditors. By law, her creditors were legally permitted to enslave her sons as payment. When she pleaded with prophet Elisha for help, he asked her to list her assets. She had but one - a jar of oil.
Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” (II Kings 4:2, NASB)
Elisha instructed her to borrow vessels from anywhere she could. She did as he said and the widow’s oil was replenished until she had no more jars to fill. She then sold the oil to pay her debts and used the surplus to support her sons.
This was the first in a series of stories involving Elisha that span from II Kings 4-8.
Note: This woodcut of the Widow's Oil was first published in 1560.
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