Quomodo voluerunt praecipitare Dominum de supercilio montis

Quomodo voluerunt praecipitare Dominum de supercilio montis

When the Lord Jesus of Nazareth had returned, and they were asking him for miracles, and he himself was showing them to be unworthy of miracles, they were inflamed with rage and drove him out of the city. The gentle Lord was fleeing before them, and they were pursuing him. What do you think? Their fury blazed up and grew to such a pitch that they led him all the way to the brow of the mountain, intending to throw him off.^✦ Chapter 23–34. But the Lord, passing through their midst by divine power, went on his way.^✦ For he had not yet chosen to die.^✦ And the account given here is this: when the Lord Jesus had slipped from their grasp and was coming down from the mountain to hide beneath a rock, the stone gave way before him, yielding a space exactly the size of his body, as if it had been made of wax; and the folds of his garment left their impression there, as though they had been carved in place. Look, then, at him fleeing before them, hiding beneath the rock, sharing in his own afflictions — and in humility and patience try to imitate him.