Luke 13:3

3 Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you too will die.

Luke 13:3 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 13:3

I tell you, nay,
&c,] They were not greater sinners than others of their neighbours, nor is it to be concluded from the bloody slaughter that was made of them; others might be much more deserving of such an end than they, who yet escaped it:

but except ye repent;
of sin, and particularly of the disbelief of the Messiah:

ye shall likewise perish;
or perish, in like manner, as these Galileans did: and so it came to pass in the destruction of Jerusalem, that great numbers of the unbelieving Jews, even three hundred thousand men were destroyed at the feast of passover ^F3; and that for sedition, as these men very likely were.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Vid. Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 11. & l. 7. c. 17. Euseb. l. 3. c. 5.

Luke 13:3 In-Context

1 About that time some people came up and told him about the Galileans Pilate had killed while they were at worship, mixing their blood with the blood of the sacrifices on the altar.

2 Jesus responded, "Do you think those murdered Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans?

3 Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you too will die.

4 And those eighteen in Jerusalem the other day, the ones crushed and killed when the Tower of Siloam collapsed and fell on them, do you think they were worse citizens than all other Jerusalemites?

5 Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you too will die."