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They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things;
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Commentators unanimously agree that the crowd's fury was not a misunderstanding. They perfectly understood Jesus's point: God's grace is not an entitlement based on heritage or hometown connections. By citing Old Testament examples where God blessed Gentiles over Israelites, Jesus directly confronted their national and local pride, causing their initial admiration to instantly turn to wrath.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Filled with wrath. They were enraged, probably, for the following reasons:
They were all filled with wrath (επλησθησαν παντες θυμου). First aorist passive indicative of the common verb πιμπλημ followed by …
19th Century
Anglican
Were filled with wrath.—The admiration they had felt at first was soon turned into bitterness. They heard themselves spok…
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Baptist
As they heard these things; and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was …
Nazareth lay among the ridges of the southern slopes of the Galilean hills. Jesus allowed the crowds to drive him out of the town (as he later did …
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And all they in the synagogue The ruler and minister, and the whole multitude of the common people that were met tog…
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…
