An infuriated mob had thrust Christ Jesus out of their city, taken him to the brow of a hill, and planned to cast him down to his doom. He'd shared spiritual insights with them in the synagogue, they'd become offended—perhaps because their lack of spirituality had been exposed—and they sought to solve their own inadequacy by killing him.
But the Bible account, after picturing the desperate scene of a man all alone, apparently at the mercy of a raging mob, closes suddenly. It says, simply, "But he passing through the midst of them went his way." Luke 4:30. A surprising turn. It appears that in some way they lost sight of him; for some reason they couldn't put their hands on him.
One morning in my study I began to notice, as never before, such words as hid, hidden, and secret. In Colossians I was told, "Your life is hid with Christ in God." Col. 3:3. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, I read, "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God." Science and Health, p. 15. Jesus himself said, "Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." Matt. 6:6. And in Psalms I was told, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Ps. 91:1.
