Luke 13:5

5 No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will all be destroyed too!"

Luke 13:5 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 13:5

I tell you, nay
I affirm it, and you may depend upon it, they were not greater sinners than others: though such a melancholy accident befell them, not without the providence of God:

but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish;
or perish in the same manner; that is, shall be buried under the ruins of the city and temple of Jerusalem, when one stone should not be left upon another; just as these eighteen men were buried under the ruins of the tower of Siloam, of which it was a pledge and emblem; and accordingly great numbers of them did perish in the temple, and were buried under the ruins of it ^F4.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 4.

Luke 13:5 In-Context

3 No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will be destroyed as they were!

4 What about those eighteen people who died when the tower of Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were more sinful than all the others who live in Jerusalem?

5 No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will all be destroyed too!"

6 Jesus told this story: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for some fruit on the tree, but he found none.

7 So the man said to his gardener, 'I have been looking for fruit on this tree for three years, but I never find any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'