On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.
Parallel translations
- WEB They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
- KJV And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
- NKJV So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
- NASB And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things;
- NLT When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious.
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Quick answer
The synagogue crowd is filled with rage at Jesus' words. His pointed message about God's grace to Gentiles provokes fury.
Overview
Jesus' suggestion that God favors believing outsiders over privileged but unbelieving Israel enrages the people of Nazareth. Their wrath reveals that admiration had quickly turned to hostility once their pride was confronted. This rejection at the outset foreshadows the broader rejection Jesus would face, even unto death.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Jer 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Acts 5:33When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
- Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
- Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- Luke 11:53–54As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,
- 2 Chr 24:20–21Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
- Jer 37:15–16The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- Acts 22:21–23Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- 2 Chr 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
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Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.
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