Luke 13:1

About that time, some men from Galilee country were killing some animals to give them to God, but then Pilate, the big boss, went with his soldiers and killed those men. Then some people went and told Jesus what happened.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Jesus said, “Do you reckon those men that died did more bad things than all the other men from Galilee? Is that why God let Pilate kill them?

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Cross References

1 Peter 4:17It is time now for God to start judging everybody. He will be good to some people, and he will give trouble to other people. He will judge his own people first. They might get some trouble now, but it will not last for ever. But later, he will judge the people that didn’t want to listen to his good story. He will be really hard on them, he will give them lots of trouble.

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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