Luke 13:3

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

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 At that time some people were there who told Jesus that Pilaten had killed some people from Galilee while they were worshiping. He mixed their blood with the blood of the animals they were sacrificing to God.

2 Jesus answered, "Do you think this happened to them because they were more sinful than all others from Galilee?

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!"