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and they rose up, and threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
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A Lawless, Raging Mob
Commentators stress that this was not a legal proceeding but a lawless mob action. The crowd, in a 'popular tumult,' attempted to lynch Jesus. John Gill highlights the hypocrisy of this act, as it violated their own explicit Sabbath laws against inflicting punishment, revealing the depth of their irrational rage.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The brow of the hill on which, and so on. The region in which Nazareth was is hilly, though Nazareth was situated between two hills, or in…
They rose up and cast him forth (ανασταντες εξεβαλον). Second aorist ingressive active participle and second aorist effective acti…
19th Century
Anglican
The brow of the hill. See Notes on Luke 1:26. The hill now shown as the Mount of Precipitation is about two miles from the city, a…
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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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And rose up in great wrath, and, in a noisy and tumultuous manner, before the service was well over, and without being regularly di…
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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…
