After I don't know how many trips to Nazareth in the past year, I finally got to go to Mount Precipice, which is where tradition says the people of Nazareth tried to throw Jesus off the cliff after He read from the Isaiah scroll in Luke 4.
What I didn't realize, until watching the aftershow and Rabbi Jason Sobel's breakdown of the story, is how capital punishment was almost unheard of in ancient Israel, and so what happened here was extreme, almost unheard of because of the value and respect placed on life. Sobel pointed out that there was no recorded trial of Jesus for this punishment, which was a violation of Torah Law, which shows just how high those emotions ran at His "heretical" comments.
He also mentioned that is that Mount Precipice is 2.5 miles from the synagogue where Jesus read from the Isaiah scroll. That is a REALLY long way to be pushed/carried by an angry mob. Talk about really strong emotion and conviction!
Although one of the names of the mountain is "The Mountain where the Lord Leapt", but the Biblical account doesn't say anything about Jesus jumping from the mountain. Instead, it says He turned and walked back through the crowd.
Wow, can you imagine meeting His eyes as He walked past?
If you are a Chosen fan, I highly recommend that episode, because it was amazing.
And, going to Mount Precipice is definitely worth it, because LOOK AT THAT VIEW!!!
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