SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:29
y levantndose, le echaron fuera de la ciudad, y le llevaron hasta la cumbre del monte sobre el cual la ciudad de ellos estaba edificada, para despearle.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 4:29
Verse 29. The brow of the hill] Mr. Maundrel tells us that this is still called "the Mountain of the Precipitation, and is half a league southward of Nazareth. In going to it, you cross first over the vale in which Nazareth stands; and then going down two or three furlongs, in a narrow cleft between the rocks, you there clamber up a short but difficult way on the right hand; at the top of which you find a great stone standing on the brink of a precipice, which is said to be the very place where our Lord was destined to be thrown down by his enraged neighbours." Maundrel's Journey, p. 116. Edit. 5th. 1732.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 29. And rose up , etc.] In great wrath, and, in a noisy and tumultuous manner, before the service was well over, and without being regularly dismissed: and thrust him out of the city ; first out of the synagogue, and then out of their city, as unworthy to be in it, though an inhabitant of it; and as if he had done something deserving of death; and therefore to be punished as a malefactor without the city: and led him unto the brow of the hill ; the edge of it, where it run out, and hung over the precipice: whereon their city was built ; so that it was a city upon an hill, and very visible, to which Christ may allude in ( Matthew 5:14). That they might cast him down headlong; and break him to pieces: in this manner ten thousand Edomites were destroyed by the Jews, in the times of Amaziah, ( 2 Chronicles 25:12) though this was not an usual way with the Jews of putting persons to death, as with some other nations f236 ; their four capital punishments were stoning, strangling, burning, and killing with the sword f237 : nor did the inhabitants of Nazareth proceed in any judicial manner with Christ, but hurried him away, in order to destroy him, without any formal process, in the manner the zealots did; though to put any man to death, or to inflict any punishment on a person on the sabbath day, as this was, was contrary to their own canon, which runs thus f238 ; they do not inflict punishment on the sabbath day, even though it is the punishment of an affirmative precept; they do not beat one that is guilty, nor put to death, as it is said, ( Exodus 35:3) ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day: this is a caution to the sanhedrim, that they do not burn on the sabbath day he that is condemned to burning; and this is the law with respect to any one that is liable to the other punishments. But these men, without any regard to the place where they were, and the worship they were concerned in, and the day of the sabbath which then was, rise up in great wrath and fury, and without any show of justice, and in the most brutish and barbarous manner attempt to take away the life of Christ.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-30 - Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray an praise. All the gifts and graces of the Spirit were upon him and of him, without measure. By Christ, sinners may be loosed from the bond of guilt, and by his Spirit and grace from the bondage of corruption He came by the word of his gospel, to bring light to those that sat in the dark, and by the power of his grace, to give sight to those tha were blind. And he preached the acceptable year of the Lord. Le sinners attend to the Saviour's invitation when liberty is thu proclaimed. Christ's name was Wonderful; in nothing was he more so tha in the word of his grace, and the power that went along with it. We ma well wonder that he should speak such words of grace to such graceles wretches as mankind. Some prejudice often furnishes an objectio against the humbling doctrine of the cross; and while it is the word of God that stirs up men's enmity, they will blame the conduct or manne of the speaker. The doctrine of God's sovereignty, his right to do his will, provokes proud men. They will not seek his favour in his own way and are angry when others have the favours they neglect. Still is Jesu rejected by multitudes who hear the same message from his words. Whil they crucify him afresh by their sins, may we honour him as the Son of God, the Saviour of men, and seek to show we do so by our obedience.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ ανασταντες 450 5631 V-2AAP-NPM εξεβαλον 1544 5627 V-2AAI-3P αυτον 846 P-ASM εξω 1854 ADV της 3588 T-GSF πολεως 4172 N-GSF και 2532 CONJ ηγαγον 71 5627 V-2AAI-3P αυτον 846 P-ASM εως 2193 CONJ της 3588 T-GSF οφρυος 3790 N-GSF του 3588 T-GSN ορους 3735 N-GSN εφ 1909 PREP ου 3739 R-GSN η 3588 T-NSF πολις 4172 N-NSF αυτων 846 P-GPM ωκοδομητο 3618 5718 V-LPI-3S εις 1519 PREP το 3588 T-ASN κατακρημνισαι 2630 5658 V-AAN αυτον 846 P-ASM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
29. The brow (ofruov). Only here in New Testament. Wyc., cope, which is originally cap or hood. The word is used in medical language both of the eyebrows and of other projections of the body. It would naturally occur to a physician, especially since the same epithets were applied to the appearance of the eyebrows in certain diseases as were appplied to hills. Thus Hippocrates, describing a deadly fever, says, "The eyebrows in elephantiasis, depicts them as problhtev, projecting, and ojcqwdeiv, like mounds. Stanley says: "Most readers probably from these words imagine a town built on the summit of a mountain, from which summit the intended precipitation was to take place. This is not the situation of Nazareth; yet its position is still in accordance with the narrative. It is built upon, that is, on the side of a mountain, but the brow is not beneath, but over the town, and such a cliff as is here implied is found in the abrupt face of a limestone rock about thirty or forty feet high, overhanging the Maronite convent at the southwest corner of the town" ("Sinai and Palestine").Cast him down headlong (katakrhmnisai). Only here in New Testament, and in the Septuagint only in 2 Chron. xxv. 12.
31-37. Compare Mark i. 21-28.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
4:29 {They rose up and cast him forth} (anastantes exebalon). Second aorist ingressive active participle and second aorist effective active indicative. A movement towards lynching Jesus. {Unto the brow of the hill} (heos ofruos tou orous). Eyebrow (ofrus), in Homer, qen any jutting prominence. Only here in the N.T. Hippocrates speaks of the eyebrow hanging over. {Was built} (wikodometo). Past perfect indicative, stood built. {That they might throw him down headlong} (hwste katakremnisai auton). Neat Greek idiom with hwste for intended result, "so as to cast him down the precipice." The infinitive alone can convey the same meaning (#Mt 2:2; 20:28; Lu 2:23). kremnos is an overhanging bank or precipice from kremannumi, to hang. kata is down. The verb occurs in Xenophon, Demosthenes, LXX, Josephus. Here only in the N.T. At the southwest corner of the town of Nazareth such a cliff today exists overhanging the Maronite convent. Murder was in the hearts of the people. By pushing him over they hoped to escape technical guilt.
