What element of human nature propels us to murderous fury? Why is it possible for calm reason and wisdom to sizzle into steam quicker than butter in a hot frying pan? Fury can lead a peaceful soul to commit actions that we quickly regret. Fury cannot be undone; completed fury will kill two. The slightest circumstances can turn the warmest friendship into cold hatred.
When Jesus’ neighbors heard his message, they were furious. They took him to the brow of the hill, Mount Precipitation, on which the town was built, in order to throw him down a cliff (29). They were enraged, probably, for the following reasons:
1) They saw that the cases applied to themselves, because they would not receive the miraculous evidence of his mission.
2) That the Messiah would direct his attention to others, and not to them.
3) That the Gentiles were objects of compassion with God, and that God often showed more favour to a single Gentile than to multitudes of Jews in the same circumstances.
4) That they might be worse than the Gentiles.
5) That it was a part of his design to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and not confine his labours to them only. (Five points by Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament)
Here is a bit of advice from the Lord God to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” (Genesis 4:6-7) We can master anger before it turns into uncontrolled fury with the help of the Holy Spirit. Ask, and you will be given.
