Luke 13:1

It was around this time that some people told Jesus about Pilate's killing of some Galileans while they were offering sacrifices.

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There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

In Context

2“Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than any other Galileans because they suffered like this?” Jesus asked.

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Cross References

Lamentations 2:20Lord, please think about it! Who have you ever treated this way? Should women have to eat their children, the little ones they love? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord's Temple?

Matthew 27:2They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

1 Peter 4:17For the time of judgment has come—and it begins with the house of God. If it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's good news?

Matthew Henry on Luke 13:1

In this chapter we have, I. The good improvement Christ made of a piece of news that was brought him concerning some Galileans, that were lately massacred by Pilate, as they were sacrificing in the temple at Jerusalem, ver. 1-5 . II. The parable of the fruitless fig-tree, by which we are warned to bring forth fruits meet for that repentance to which he had in the foregoing passage called us, ver. 6-9 . III. Christ's healing a poor infirm woman on the sabbath day, and justifying himself in it, ver. 11-17 . IV. A… Read the whole commentary →

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