Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
rose up—broke up the service irreverently and rushed forth.
thrust him—with violence, as a prisoner in their hands.
brow, etc.—Nazareth, though not built on the ridge of a hill, is in part surrounded by one to the west, having several such precipices. (See II Chronicles 25:12; II Kings 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!" (Matthew 10:36).
when they heard these things—these allusions to the heathen, just as afterwards with Paul (Acts 22:21-22).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 4:29:
Jeremiah 11:21
Matthew 13:53
Matthew 13:54
Matthew 13:58
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