<p>4:29 <i>And they rose up and threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong</i>- This was the punishment for a heretic. They knew He said the truth, but because it demanded so much of them, they claimed He was heretical. So many cries of 'heresy' and 'heretic' are psychologically rooted in a subconscious refusal to accept the truths presented. I suggest this is why there has been such a long tradition of hatred, anger and calling of 'heretic' against those who preach a non-Trinitarian Jesus. If He truly had our nature and therefore was not God, this demands so much of us. And men shy away from that and cry 'heresy' rather than be challenged as to what are the very high possibilities for we who share the nature the Lord had when mortal.<br />&nbsp;</p><p>There may be an allusion here to Jephthah, who had been &quot;despised and rejected of men&quot; during the time of Israel's suffering.&nbsp; In this and many other ways he is a clear type of Christ. Jephthah reminded the &quot;elders of Gilead&quot; who were now seeking his help, &quot;Did not you hate me, and expel me out of my father's house?&quot; (Jud. 11:7).&nbsp; The Hebrew for &quot;expel&quot; is also translated 'thrust out';&nbsp;Jesus was 'thrust out' from his native town as Jephthah was from Gilead, perhaps a technical term for local excommunication from the city synagogue region.&nbsp;It was &quot;the elders&quot; who were also responsible for Christ's rejection. He was despised as &quot;the son of a strange woman&quot; (Jud. 11:2) as the Lord was accused of being born out of wedlock (Jn. 8:41).</p>