Lucas 4:28

28 Entonces todos en la sinagoga fueron llenos de ira, oyendo estas cosas

Lucas 4:28 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 4:28

And all they in the synagogue
The ruler and minister, and the whole multitude of the common people that were met together there for worship; and who before were amazed at his eloquence, and the gracefulness of his delivery; and could not but approve of his ministry, though they could not account for it, how he should come by his qualifications for it:

when they heard these things;
these two instances of Elijah and Elisha, the one supplying the wants of a Sidonian woman, and the other healing a Syrian leper, when no notice were taken by them of poor widows and lepers in Israel:

were filled with wrath;
for by these instances they perceived, that they were compared to the Israelites in the times of wicked Ahab and Jezebel; and that no miracles were to be wrought among them, or benefits conferred on them, though they were his townsmen; yea, that the Gentiles were preferred unto them: and indeed the calling of the Gentiles was here plainly intimated, which was always ungrateful and provoking to the Jews; and it was suggested, that the favours of God, and grace of the Messiah, are dispensed in a sovereign and discriminating way, than which nothing is more offensive to carnal minds.

Lucas 4:28 In-Context

26 pero a ninguna de ellas fue enviado Elías, sino a Sarepta de Sidón, a una mujer viuda

27 Y muchos leprosos había en Israel en tiempo del profeta Eliseo; mas ninguno de ellos fue limpio, sino Naamán el sirio

28 Entonces todos en la sinagoga fueron llenos de ira, oyendo estas cosas

29 y levantándose, le echaron fuera de la ciudad, y le llevaron hasta la cumbre del monte sobre el cual la ciudad de ellos estaba edificada, para despeñarle

30 Mas él, pasando por medio de ellos, se fue