Luke 4:30

Passing through. Angels shut Him in and conducted Him to a place of safety, as they did again on another occasion (cf. John 8:59), and as they have often protected Heaven’s witnesses in all ages (see DA 240). Thus it was with Lot (see Gen. 19:10, 11) and with Elisha (see 2 Kings 6:17, 18), and thus it has been even in modern times. Jesus passed “through the midst” of the crowd under the protection of holy angels (see DA 240). At various times those bent on taking the life of Jesus were restrained from carrying out their evil intentions (see John 7:44-46; 10:31-39), for His work was not yet complete, His “hour was not yet come” (see John 7:30).

Went his way. As already noted, this visit to Nazareth, the first since Christ’s baptism, probably occurred in the late spring or early summer of A.D. 29 (see on v. 16). His next, and last, visit to the town came nearly a year later, in the early spring of A.D. 30, not long before the Passover (see on Mark 6:1-6).