{"id":22109,"date":"2025-01-10T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=22109"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:40:48","slug":"luke-416-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/luke-416-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke 4:16-30 – How was Jesus rejected?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Problem:<\/strong> There are differences in Jesus\u2019 rejection between the Synoptic gospels. Matthew and Mark place this event in the middle<\/em> of Jesus\u2019 ministry, but Luke places it at the beginning<\/em>. Moreover, Matthew and Mark state that Jesus left quietly (Mt. 13:58; Mk. 6:5), while Luke explains he was chased by a mob (Lk. 4:30). What should we make of these? Are they contradictions?
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\nSolution:<\/strong> Matthew and Mark\u2019s account of Jesus\u2019 rejection are similar, but Luke\u2019s is the most different. This can be resolved in one of two ways:<\/p>\n
Two rejections?<\/h5>\n

Matthew and Mark place this rejection somewhere in the middle of Jesus\u2019 ministry (near the death of John the Baptist), but Luke places it at the beginning of Jesus\u2019 ministry. Poythress writes, \u201cSuppose that the episode in Luke took place early in Jesus\u2019s public ministry. When the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus, he may have decided never to return. But then again he may have decided out of compassion to give them one more chance. If and when he went back, their reaction was still the same. It is quite possible that, because they remained in opposition, they produced the same basic reasons for opposition that they had used before. They asked, \u2018Is not this Joseph\u2019s son?\u2019 and so on. Jesus in response might fittingly have reminded them a second time of the rejection of Old Testament prophets.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

One event?<\/h5>\n

Since Luke mentions Jesus\u2019 other miracles (Lk. 4:23), it\u2019s possible that this is out of chronological order. But as we have already noted (see \u201cBible Difficulties: Principle #8\u201d<\/a>), chronological order was not important to ancient authors\u2014particularly in the gospels.<\/p>\n

What about the mob chasing him?<\/h5>\n

Luke records that a mob chased him, intending to throw him off of a cliff (Lk. 4:30), but Matthew 13:58 and Mark 6:5 do not mention this violent intent. However, it\u2019s possible that Jesus had been in Nazareth for several days before he decided to take up the scroll in the Synagogue.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Poythress, Vern S.\u00a0Inerrancy and the Gospels: A God-centered Approach to the Challenges of Harmonization<\/em>. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012. 140-141.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Problem: There are differences in Jesus\u2019 rejection between the Synoptic gospels. Matthew and Mark place this event in the middle of Jesus\u2019 ministry, but Luke places it at the beginning. Moreover, Matthew and Mark state that Jesus left quietly (Mt. 13:58; Mk. 6:5), while Luke explains he was chased by a mob (Lk. 4:30). WhatContinue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}