Luke 4:28
What does Luke 4:28 mean?
A plain-English look at Luke 4:28 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Luke 4:28 means
Verse 28 reports that the synagogue attendees were filled with wrath as they heard Jesus’ words. Their anger arises from perceived insult and threatened privilege: Jesus suggested God had blessed outsiders instead of deserving insiders. The emotion indicates a strong negative shift from earlier wonder to fury. This reaction reveals how sensitive people can be to challenges against national and personal assumptions about God’s favor. It also shows how prophetic truth can provoke violent resistance, especially when it strikes at identity and perceived rights to divine blessing.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things;
KJV
King James Version · 1611And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things;
Context
This verse follows Jesus’ illustrations about Elijah and Elisha and shows the immediate emotional fallout. The chapter turns from teaching to crisis—the congregation’s anger drives the narrative toward a climactic confrontation. The contrast with earlier admiration illustrates the volatile reception prophets can face. The flow points to the subsequent attempt to expel and kill Jesus, underscoring that his words have real consequences, and that prophetic truth often produces fierce opposition among those whose beliefs are challenged.
v.27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.
v.28This passage
v.29and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Luke 6:11
But they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
- Acts 5:33
But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were minded to slay them.
- Jeremiah 37:15
And 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.
- Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
- 2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
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