How did Jesus pass through an angry mob?

[Ascetic X]

I do not recall this scene of Jesus being brought to a cliff ever being included in any Jesus film.

My question is: how did Jesus pass through the midst of an angry mob?

Scholars call this a miraculous escape.

He must have used supernatural powers.

Did Jesus temporarily blind or paralyze them?

Did He turn invisible?

The Greek wording (and surrounding context) implies a supernatural escape. Because His ultimate mission on the cross had not yet arrived, no human force could stop or prematurely end His earthly ministry.

By demonstrating His ability to walk away from a violent crowd unharmed, Jesus establishes that He would later lay down His life willingly, not because He was overpowered by His enemies.


Luke 4

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

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.

30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,

31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

 

[Marooncat79]

He did it a couple of more times as well

 

[Ben1445]

Isaiah 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

There was nothing to distinguish Him above any other person. He could be easy to miss in that way.

He certainly is able to have sent a blindness to them though I don’t think that would be the answer or they would be wandering off the cliff themselves and it doesn’t say they were blinded.
They could have been sent a strong delusion that they would not recognize Him who they had rejected.
Ultimately, they could not have done anything to the Lord unless He allowed it.


John 10:17-18
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

If Jesus has power to take up His life again, there is no power that is able to take it from Him.

This is nothing less than the Creator having power over His creation.

Psalms 118:6
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear:
what can man do unto me?

 

[Martin Marprelate]

John 8:20. '...No one laid hands on Him for His hour had not yet come.'
John 12:23. "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified." The Lord Jesus' hour (time) could not come until the work the Father had given Him was ready for completion. The coming of the Greeks wishing to hear Him was a sign to Him that His departure was at hand.

 

[Ascetic X]

Isaiah 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

There was nothing to distinguish Him above any other person. He could be easy to miss in that way.

He certainly is able to have sent a blindness to them though I don’t think that would be the answer or they would be wandering off the cliff themselves and it doesn’t say they were blinded.
They could have been sent a strong delusion that they would not recognize Him who they had rejected.
Ultimately, they could not have done anything to the Lord unless He allowed it.


John 10:17-18
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

If Jesus has power to take up His life again, there is no power that is able to take it from Him.

This is nothing less than the Creator having power over His creation.

Psalms 118:6
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear:
what can man do unto me?

Yes, it was not time for Jesus to die. Someone said that angels might have come down and cleared a path for Him, restraining the mob.

God would have to know that certain passages in scripture are difficult for us to understand or would cause us to ponder them deeply.

We just accept the Word of God and live with some uncertainty and questions. Some day everything will be clear to us.

 

[Jerome]

Acts 12:10
"When they had passed the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city. Of its own accord it swung open for them; and they went out and went along one street, and at once the angel left him."

Alleluia!