‘And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things, and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, so that they might throw him down headlong.'
So filled with anger as they listened to Him in the synagogue, they rose from their seats, dragged Him outside the town, and prepared to throw Him headlong over a nearby cliff, a part of the mountain on which Nazareth was built.
We have here the second indication that God's purposes are not going to go smoothly but are going to meet up with resistance. John is now in prison (Luke 3:20), and the life of Jesus is threatened. Not only is the Devil at work in seeking to bring the work of God down (Luke 4:1-12), but the rulers are assisting Him, along with Jesus' own home town. It was a symbol of the fact that the Jews as a whole would reject Him too. The way ahead is not going to be easy