"The truth is that if we would be acceptable to God at all times, we can take it for granted that we will be unacceptable to others some of the time" (John N. Gladstone).

Jesus provokes his neighbors here, doesn't he? My commentator thinks their anger rises out of the anger Jewish people have developed towards all non-Jews. The members of the synagogue cannot deny what he is saying. It is in the book. But they hate being reminded that God helps non-Jews.

Jesus spends most of his time ministering to fellow Jews. But he never denied Gentiles when they sought him out. Many great stories are of how he helped Gentiles in need. Jesus had compassion for all. No one is excluded unless they choose to be.

Why can't his fellow villagers simply accept his teaching and deal with it? Or "agree to disagree" so to speak? They would certainly have been better off if they had listened. But the Jews, as a group, were so bent on rebellion. Each succeeding rebellion caused stronger and stronger reprisals from Rome until finally in 70 AD they massacred all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and tore down the temple. (And robbed the temple treasury.) They forbid Jews from living in the city.

The Jews were expecting a messiah. Daniel's prophesies seemed to say they were living in the times. They never lost that expectation. But they would not consider that the messiah God would send would be so different. Jesus never stopped trying to tell them, like he did here in the synagogue of Nazareth.

This was an act of extreme caring. Yet the people could not accept it and even wanted to kill him.

Jesus' first desire was to bring the truth, not to win a popularity contest. What he told them: he was the messiah bringing peace and not war. He was bringing Good News to all men, not just to Jews.
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LUKE 4:22-30 [22] And all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips; and they were saying, "Is this not Joseph's son?" [23] And He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.'" [24] And He said, "Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown. [25] But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land; [26] and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. [27] And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." [28] And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things; [29] and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff. [30] But passing through their midst, He went His way. (NASB)