Alcuin: He fled, because His hour was not yet come; and because He had not chosen this kind of death.
Augustine: So then, as a man, He flies from the stones; but woe to them, from whose stony hearts God flies.
Bede: Mystically, a man throws a stone at Jesus, as often as he harbors an evil thought, and if he follows it up, so far as lies in him, he kills Jesus.
Gregory: What does our Lord mean by hiding Himself, but that the truth is hidden to them, who despise His words. The truth flies the company of an unhumbled soul. His example shows us, that we should in all humility rather retreat from the wrath of the proud, when it rises, than resist it, even though we might be able.