This verse begins, like Luke 4:24, with a solemn asseveration. It contains the proper answer to Luke 4:23. It has been suggested (J. Weiss) that Luke 4:22; Luke 4:24 have been interpolated from Mark 6:1-6 in the source Lk. here used. ἔτη τρία κ. μ. ἕξ, three years and six months. The reference is to 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:1, where three years are mentioned. The recurrence of the same number, three and a half years, in James 5:17 seems to point to a traditional estimate of the period of drought, three and a half, the half of seven, the number symbolic of misfortune (Daniel 12:7).

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Old Testament