passage. This is the opposite of Mark and Matthew’s report that it is Jesus who rejects the people for their unbelief. Thus Luke stresses that what offended Jesus’ contemporaries most was his hermeneutics, his interpretation of one of their favorite passages of Scripture. Jesus read the passage from the Isaiah scroll and sat down. The congregation waited to hear how he would comment on the passage or what homily he would give. He electrified them by saying that on this day the Scripture was fulfilled