Luke 4:29
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They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.
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rose up--broke up the service irreverently and rushed forth. thrust him--with violence, as a prisoner in their hands. brow, &c.--Nazareth, though not built on the ridge of a hill, is in part surrounded by one to the west, having several such precipices. (See Ch2 25:12; Kg2 9:33.) It was a mode of capital punishment not unusual among the Romans and others. This was the first insult which the Son of God received, and it came from "them of His own household!" (Mat 10:36).
Open source ↗We left Christ newly baptized, and owned by a voice from heaven and the descent of the Holy Ghost upon him. Now, in this chapter, we have, I. A further preparation of him for his public ministry by his being tempted in the wilderness, of which we had the same account before in Matthew as we have here (Luk 4:1-13). II. His entrance upon his public work in Galilee (Luk 4:14, Luk 4:15), particularly, 1. At Nazareth, the city where he had been bred up (Luk 4:16-30), which we had no account of before in Matthew. 2. At Capernaum, where, having preached to admiration (Luk 4:31-32), he cast the devil out of a man that was possessed (Luk 4:33-37), cured Peter's mother-in-law of a fever (Luk 4:38, Luk 4:39), and many others that were sick and possessed (Luk 4:40, Luk 4:41), and then went and did the same in other cities of Galilee (Luk 4:42-44).
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At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
and the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.