Jesus the new Elisha

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Luke 4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.

	Elisha	Jesus
Anointed by the Holy Spirit at the River Jordan at start of ministry	received double portion of the spirit of Elijah (2 Kg 2:9-12)	God the Father anointed Jesus at his baptism by John the Baptist, the new Elijah (Mt 3:16)
Performed many miracles of compassion	prophesied for a barren woman to conceive a son (2 Kg 4:14-17) raised from the dead the Shunammite's son (2 Kg 4:32-37) multiplication of twenty barley loaves to feed 100 men (2 Kg 4:42-44) healed the Gentile Naaman of leprosy (2 Kg 5:1-15)	healed many people (Mt 8:14-16) raised from the dead Jairus's daughter (Mk 5:35-42), a widow's son (Lk 7:11-17) and Lazarus (Jn 11:1-44) multiplication of five barley loaves and two fish to feed 5000 men (Jn 6:8-13) and seven loaves to feed 4000 (Mk 8:1-9) healed ten lepers (Lk 17:11-19)
Betrayed for silver	by his servant Gehazi (2 Kg 5:20-27)	by his apostle Judas (Mt 26:15)
Merciful to enemies	to the captured Syrian soldiers (2 Kg 6:21-23)	to his persecutors when on the cross (Lk 23:34)
His death brought life	a dead man was restored to life after touching the bones of Elisha (2 Kg 13:20-21)	his death brought forgiveness of sins (Mt 26:28) and his resurrection restored us to new life (1 Pet 1:3-4)