Luke 4 · Verse 28

Luke 4:28

And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Luke 4:28, King James Version

Luke 4:28 in other translations

BSBOn hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.
WEBThey were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.
ASVAnd they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things;
YLTAnd all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things,
DARBYAnd they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things;
BBEAnd all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them.
WebsterAnd all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

What does Luke 4:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 4:28-29
28-29. when they heard these things--these allusions to the heathen, just as afterwards with Paul (Ac 22:21, 22).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 28. Filled with wrath. They were enraged, probably, for the following reasons:

1st. They saw that the cases applied to themselves, because they would not receive the miraculous evidences of his mission.

2nd. That he would direct his attention to others, and not to them.

3rd. That the Gentiles were objects of compassion with God, and that God often showed more favour to a single Gentile than to multitudes of Jews in the same circumstances.

4th. That they might be worse than the Gentiles. And,

5th. That it was a part of his design to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and not confine his labours to them only. On these accounts their favour was soon turned to wrath, and the whole transaction shows us --

1st. That popular applause is of little value.

2nd. That the slightest circumstances may soon turn the warmest professed friendship to hatred. And,

3rd. That men are exceedingly unreasonable in being unwilling to hear the truth and profit by it.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 Were filled with wrath - They seem to have drawn the following conclusion from what our Lord spoke: "The Gentiles are more precious in the sight of God than the Jews; and to them his miracles of mercy and kindness shall be principally confined." This was pretty near the truth, as the event proved. Those who profit not by the light of God, while it is among them, shall have their candle extinguished. The kingdom of God was taken from the Jews, and given to the Gentiles; not because the Gentiles were better than they were, but because, 1st. The Jews had forfeited their privileges; and 2dly. Because Christ saw that the Gentiles would bring forth the fruits of the kingdom.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 4:14-30

Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray and praise. All the gifts and graces of the Spirit were upon him and on him, without measure. By Christ, sinners may be loosed from the bonds of guilt, and by his Spirit and grace from the bondage of corruption. He came by the word of his gospel, to bring light to those that sat in the…

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Luke 4:28 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ΚαὶKaiAndG2532
ἐπλήσθησανeplēsthēsanwere filledG4130
πάντεςpantesallG3956
θυμοῦthumouwith angerG2372
ἐνeninG1722
τῇtēatheG3588
συναγωγῇsunagōgēasynagogueG4864
ἀκούοντεςakouonteshearingG191
ταῦτα·tautathese things;G3778

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Cross references for Luke 4:28

  • Acts 7:54

    When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

  • Acts 22:21-23

    And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

  • Jeremiah 37:15-16

    Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

  • Luke 6:11

    And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

  • Luke 11:53-54

    And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

  • Acts 5:33

    When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

  • Jeremiah 38:6

    Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

  • 2 Chronicles 24:20-21

    And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you. And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

    Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

  • 2 Chronicles 16:10

    Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
were.
6:11; 11:53,54; 2Ch 16:10; 24:20,21; Jer 37:15,16; 38:6; Ac 5:33
Ac 7:54; 22:21-23; 1Th 2:15,16

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Context

  • Luke 4:27

    And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

  • Luke 4:28

    And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

  • Luke 4:29

    And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

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Luke 4:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Entonces todos en la sinagoga fueron llenos de ira, oyendo estas cosas;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils furent tous remplis de colère dans la synagogue en entendant ces choses;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und alle wurden von Wut erfüllt in der Synagoge, als sie dies hörten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et repleti sunt omnes in synagoga ira, hæc audientes.