Like Elijah and Elisha, Jesus was sent not only to the Jews. Lk 4:24-30

 Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth:

   “Amen, I say to you,

   no prophet is accepted in his own native place.

Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel

   in the days of Elijah

   when the sky was closed for three and a half years

   and a severe famine spread over the entire land.

It was to none of these that Elijah was sent,

   but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.

Again, there were many lepers in Israel

   during the time of Elisha the prophet;

   yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”

When the people in the synagogue heard this,

   they were all filled with fury.

They rose up, drove him out of the town,

   and led him to the brow of the hill

   on which their town had been built,

   to hurl him down headlong.

But he passed through the midst of them and went away.