Luke 4:30 Commentary and Bible Study

The people of his own village have attempted to murder him. Those who respected him and wondered at him one moment have become those who hate him the next. How unstable is human affection! But it is not yet time for him to die. He is walking according to God’s timetable and he know that he must lay down his life in Jerusalem after his ministry on earth is complete. So he passes through the midst of them. He has allowed them to drag him to the brow of the hill in order to expose their murderous intention, but he is not going to allow them to carry through with their evil plan because he knows the timetable he is working to. He will lay down his life at Golgotha, but that must wait until his ministry is complete. This walking through the angry crowd is obviously a supernatural event, but precisely how he prevented them throwing him over the cliff, and how he walked through the midst of a hostile crowd determined to kill him, is not explained. Christ accepts all these providences as part of his Father’s will for his life. It would have been a great cause of sorrow for anyone to be rejected by those who should have loved him, and with whom he had surely spent many hours together, but Christ understood the human heart and he ‘knew all men’ and he understood the sin within them that had led to this response. But for these people, this was the end of their opportunity to see his miracles and to witness his wonderful words, unless they travelled outside their village. The scepticism and pessimism that had made react in this way, would be likely to make them unwilling to follow him anymore.