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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 4:29 - 4:29
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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 2Ch 25:12; 2Ki 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!” (Mat 10:36).