Luke 4:29
Good News Translation
They rose up, dragged Jesus out of town, and took him to the top of the hill on which their town was built. They meant to throw him over the cliff,

New Revised Standard Version
They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff.

Contemporary English Version
that they got up and threw him out of town. They dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which the town was built, because they wanted to throw him down from there.

New American Bible
They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they rose up and thrust him out of the city: and they brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

and thrust.

John 8:37,40,59 I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. . . .

John 15:24,25 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. . . .

Acts 7:57,58 And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and with one accord ran violently upon him. . . .

Acts 16:23,24 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently. . . .

Acts 21:28-32 Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and this place; and moreover hath brought in Gentiles into the temple and hath violated this holy place. . . .

brow.

2 Chronicles 25:12 And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took, and brought to the steep of a certain rock, and cast them down headlong from the top, and they all were broken to pieces.

Psalm 37:14,32,33 The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart. . . .

Context
The Rejection at Nazareth
28And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger. 29And they rose up and thrust him out of the city: and they brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 30But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.…
Cross References
Numbers 15:35
And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.

Luke 4:28
And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger.

Acts 7:58
And casting him forth without the city. they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

Hebrews 13:12
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Luke 4:28
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