Luke 13:1

Some people who were listening to Jesus at that time told him about some people from Galilee district who had gone to Jerusalem. Pilate, the Roman governor, had ordered soldiers to kill them [MTY] while they were offering sacrifices in the Temple there.

Translation for Translators

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 replied to them, “Do you think that this happened to those people from Galilee because they were more sinful than all the other people from Galilee?

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Cross References

Lamentations 2:20Yahweh, look, and think about it! Have you ever [RHQ] caused people to suffer like this before? It is certainly not right that [RHQ] women are eating the flesh of their own children, the children whom they have always taken care of! It is not right that [RHQ] priests and prophets are being killed in your own temple!

Matthew 27:2They tied his hands and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.

1 Peter 4:17I say that, because it is now time for God to begin judging people, and first he will judge those who belong [MTY] to him. Since he will judge us believers first, think about the terrible things that will happen to [RHQ] those who do not obey the good message that comes from him!

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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