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Luke 4:28,29

LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 4:28 Throw him down the cliff describes one method of stoning. Like other NT stoning incidents, which usually involved throwing rocks, this is a mob activity. Under Roman rule, only government officials could carry out a death penalty.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 28. _WERE FILLED WITH WRATH_] They seem to have drawn the following conclusion from what our Lord spoke: "The _Gentiles_ are more precious in the sight of God than the _Jews_; and to them his m...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FILLED WITH WRATH - They were enraged, probably, for the following reasons: * They saw that the cases applied to themselves, because they would not receive the miraculous evidences of his mission....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    III. THE MINISTRY IN GALILEE -- CHAPTER 4:14-9:50 CHAPTER 4:14-44 _ 1. In the Synagogue of Nazareth (Luke 4:14)_ 2. Unbelief and Rejection of Christ. (Luke 4:22) 3. A Demon Cast Out in Capernaum ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JESUS IN NAZARETH (Mark 1:14 f.*, Matthew 4:12 *, Mark 6:1 *, Matthew 13:53 *). Lk. brings Jesus to Galilee, but, anxious to make the mission begin in His

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    So Jesus came to Nazareth where he had been brought up; and, as was his habit, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read the lesson. The roll of the prophet Isaiah was giv...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE BATTLE WITH TEMPTATION (Luke 4:1-13)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Rejection by the Nazarenes 24. _is accepted in his own country_ St Matthew adds (Matthew 13:57) "and in his own house," implying that "neither did His brethren believe on Him." This curious psychologi...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _were filled with wrath_ The aorist implies a sudden outburst. Perhaps they were already offended by knowing that Jesus had spent two days at Sychar among the hated Samaritans; and now He whom they wi...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἘΠΛΉΣΘΗΣΑΝ … ΘΥΜΟΥ͂. The aorist implies a sudden outburst. Perhaps they were already offended by knowing that Jesus had spent two days at Sychar among the hated Samaritans; and now He whom they wished...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    REJECTION BY THE NAZARENES...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 28. AND ALL THEY IN THE SYNAGOGUE, WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS, WERE FILLED WITH WRATH, 29. AND ROSE UP, AND THRUST HIM OUT OF THE CITY, AND LED HIM TO THE BROW OF THE HILL WHEREON THEIR CITY WAS...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΠΛΉΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΠΊΜΠΛΗΜΙ (G4130) наполнять, ΘΥΜΟΫ́ _gen. от_ ΘΥΜΌΣ (G2372) гнев; партитивный _gen._, используется с ΈΠΛΉΘΗΣΑΝ. Оборот этот указывает на самоконтроль и самообладание л...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1487 CHRIST ESCAPES FROM HIS BLOOD-THIRSTY PERSECUTORS Luke 4:28. _And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Visitation of the Son of Man in Time (Luke 4:14-30) 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and a report concerning him went out through all the s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, AND ALL THEY IN THE SYNAGOGUE, WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS, WERE FILLED WITH WRATH - maddened at the severity w...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    8 "It is written" is the sword of the spirit, that destroys the insinuations of the Slanderer. And if he counters with a passage (for error is best supported by an appeal to Holy Writ), the only defen...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TEMPTATION. NAZARETH. CAPERNAUM 1-13. The Temptation (Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:12). See on Mt....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VISIT TO NAZARETH. See Matthew 13:53; Mark 6:1. It must remain doubtful whether this visit to Nazareth, which Lk places at the beginning of the Galilean ministry, is identical with that placed conside...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    They are angry with Jesus for venturing to compare Himself with the old prophets, and for rebuking them for their want of faith in Him....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 JESUS AND THE DEVIL 4:1-13 V1-2 Jesus returned from the river Jordan. He was full of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit led him into the desert for 4...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WERE FILLED WITH WRATH. — The admiration they had felt at first was soon turned into bitterness. They heard themselves spoken of as though there might be a faith in Zidon and in Syria which was not fo...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 8 THE GOSPEL OF THE JUBILEE. IMMEDIATELY after the Temptation Jesus returned "in the power of the Spirit," and with all the added strength of His recent victories, to Galilee. Into what parts...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Jesus in Nazareth_ (Matthew 13:53-58; Mark 6:1-6 a). Though Lk. uses an editorial discretion in the _placing_ of this beautiful story, there need be no suspicion as to the historicity of its main fea...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The sequel_....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Unsympathetic from the first, the Nazareans, stung by these O. T. references, become indignant. _Pagans_, not to speak of Capernaum people, better than we: away with Him! out of the synagogue, nay, ou...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT” Luke 4:14-30 A wide gap occurs here, embracing the important transactions of John 1:29-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. What a flutter in Mary's heart when she s...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    As man Jesus was tempted. All the words with which He rebutted the attacks of Satan were quotations from the divine law for the government of human life. The exhaustive nature of the temptation is rev...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (5) And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, (5) The more sharply the world is rebuked the more it openly rages: but the life of the godly is not always su...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    JESUS REJECTED AT NAZARETH, MIGRATES TO CAPERNAUM Luke 4:16-31; Matthew 4:13-16. “He came into Nazareth, where he was brought up, and according to the custom to Him on the Sabbath-day, He came into th...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    _Conclusion._ The threat contained in these examples exasperates them: “Thou rejectest us: we reject thee,” was their virtual reply. The term ἐκβάλλειν, _to cast out_, denotes that they set upon Him...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    2 _d. Luke 4:16-30_. Jesus did not begin by preaching at Nazareth. In His view, no doubt, the inhabitants of this city stood in much the same relation to the people of the rest of Galilee as the inhab...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    THIRD PART: THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IN GALILEE, LUKE 4:14 TO LUKE 9:50. The three Synoptics all connect the narrative of the Galilaean ministry with the account of the temptation. But the narrations of...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    FIRST CYCLE: VISITS TO NAZARETH AND TO CAPERNAUM, LUKE 4:14-44. The following narratives are grouped around two names _ Nazareth_ (Luke 4:14-30) and _Capernaum_ (Luke 4:31-44)....

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    1. _Visit to Nazareth: Luke 4:14-30_. This portion opens with a general glance at the commencement of the active labours of Jesus in Galilee: Luke 14:14-15. Then, resting on this foundation, but separ...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (23) And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. (24) And he said, Verily I say un...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    28._Were filled with wrath _They perceived that the object of those two examples, which Christ had produced, was to show, that the grace of God would be removed from them to others: (327) and therefor...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The unknown Son of God on earth, Jesus, is led (chapter 4) into the wilderness by the Holy Ghost, with whom He had been sealed, to undergo the temptation of the enemy, beneath which Adam fell. But Jes...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ALL THEY IN THE SYNAGOGUE,.... The ruler and minister, and the whole multitude of the common people that were met together there for worship; and who before were amazed at his eloquence, and the g...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, Ver. 28. _And all they in the synagogue_] Though but plain rustics, yet they soon understood this saying of preach...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And all they in the synagogue were filled with wrath_ The Nazarenes, perceiving the purport of his discourse, namely, that the blessings which they despised would be offered to, and accepted by, the...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    HEARD THESE THINGS; the things he had spoken in proof of the truth of what he had said, and in justification of his having wrought more miracles at Capernaum than at Nazareth. The most eminent Old Tes...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The attempt to kill the Lord:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND ALL THEY IN THE SYNAGOGUE, WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS, WERE FILLED WITH WRATH,...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (vs.1-13) The Father having pronounced His delight in His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. In Mark 1:12 it...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-30 Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray and praise. All the gifts and graces of the Spirit were upon him...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Ver. 28-30. Unhappy Nazareth, where Christ had now lived more than thirty years! They had seen him growing up, increasing _in wisdom and stature, and in favour_ both _with God and man_, LUKE 2:52; the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 4:28 So G2532 those G3956 in G1722 synagogue G4864 heard G191 (G5723) things G5023 filled G4130 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things, and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was bui...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Luke 4:28. FILLED WITH WRATH. The wrath was sinful, but natural. They were angry at the rebuke, but their conduct only proved its justice. We restore the more graphic order of the original....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    CHRONOLOGY. A number of events occurred in Judea before the ministry in Galilee spoken of in Luke 4:14-15, according to Andrews the whole of the first year. (See notes on Matthew 4:12; comp. John 1:35...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH WRATH (επλησθησαν παντες θυμου). First aorist passive indicative of the common verb πιμπλημ followed by the genitive case. The people of Nazareth at once caught on and saw...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We will read, from the Revised Version, two passages which record attempts made to kill our Lord before his time had come. You will see, from the sermon, why we read them. Luke 4:16. And he came to N...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We will read three short passages of Scripture, all relating to Christ's service. The first concerns the ministry of the Lord Jesus himself. Luke 4:16. And he came to Nazareth, where lie had been, br...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 4:14. _And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee:_ Ah, dear brethren, if our Lord Jesus needed «the power of the Spirit», how much more do you and I need it! We have no power of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth. Casting of demons out of man at Capernaum. Healing of Peter's wife's mother and others. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, Josep...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 4:2. _Being tempted forty days he afterward hungered._ During this space he lived like Moses on the mount, conversing with the Father in all the glories of his kingdom. His humanity was renovated...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    WERE FILLED WITH ANGER WHEN THEY HEARD THIS. If the Gentiles could be saved, that meant they were as good as they were, and this filled them with rage! (_Compare_ Acts 22:22.) DRAGGED JESUS OUT OF TOW...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath_ NAZARETH; OR, JESUS REJECTED BY HIS FRIENDS I. WHO WERE THESE REJECTORS OF CHRIST? They have their types and rep...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 4 VER. 1. _And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan_, having been there baptized by John a little time before, and having _visibly_ received the Holy Spirit, whose fulness...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 4:14. RETURNED.—_I.e._ from Judæa. GALILEE.—The main centre of our Lord’s ministry (cf. Acts 10:37; Luke 23:5). IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT.—Fresh strength gained from His victory...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LUKE 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The consecration of our Lord in his baptism was immediately followed by what is known as his temptation. It is, perhaps, the most mysterious and least understood...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan (Luke 4:1), Now He was at Jordan where He was baptized by John, and He returned from Jordan. and was led by the Spirit into the wildernes...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 24:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And all in the synagogue were filled with fury — Perceiving the purport of his discourse, namely, that the blessing which they despised, would be offered to, and accepted by, the Gentiles. So changeab...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. The horrid impiety of the people of Nazareth, in thrusting their Saviour out of their city, and their barbarous and bloody cruelty in bringing him to the brow of the hill, with full i...

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