Here is an icon inscribed in Greek. It represents an uncommon type, likely because the Gospel text from which it is derived is rather odd and therefore tends to be overlooked. The story is in Luke 4:29-30:
29 καὶ ἀναστάντες ἐξέβαλον αὐτὸν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν ἕως ὀφρύος τοῦ ὄρους ἐφ’ οὗ ἡ πόλις ᾠκοδόμητο αὐτῶν, ὥστε κατακρημνίσαι αὐτόν· 30 αὐτὸς δὲ διελθὼν διὰ μέσου αὐτῶν ἐπορεύετο.
29 And they rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill where their city was built, that they might throw him down the precipice. 30 And he passed through the midst of them, and went his way.
Of course the odd part is “And he passed through the midst of them, and went his way,” giving no explanation of how Jesus managed to escape getting thrown off the precipice. On reading this account repeatedly, one has the distinct impression that something has been cut from the story. When we look at the known manuscript tradition, however, we find nothing obviously amiss.
Nonetheless, there seems to have been a surviving tradition, mentioned by Aphrahat, a Syrian Christian of the 3rd century, that Jesus was actually thrown off the precipice, but “showed the power of his majesty” by not being harmed. Scholars of the Syriac harmony of the Gospels (sadly, no ancient manuscript of it in Syriac has been preserved) called the Diatessaron, saw evidence that it may have originally included a similar tradition in which Jesus was thrown off the precipice, but “passed through their midst” by flying through the air down to Capernaum (https://jbtc.org/v01/Baarda1996rev.html). As Alice remarked in Alice in Wonderland, “Curiouser and curiouser.”
The inscription at the top of the icon says:
“Jesus borne by the Jews to the Precipice.”
The city in the background is intended to be Nazareth.
ICONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION 