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Today’s Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch.13, NCV, Ch. 14 CEB

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Thoughts

Luke 13:1-5
For context: Jesus was speaking to a large crowd. He was on the way to Jerusalem to be crucified. He knew that His time was short.

Someone in the crowd asks Jesus about an event that we don’t know much about. Some Galileans were killed by Pilate’s men while they were offering sacrifices. It seems that to Jesus, the condition of his hearers souls was of more importance than those Galileans. It might be a similar situation to when the child of King David and Bathsheba was sick. David cried and prayed that the child would recover, but to no avail. The child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him, concerned what David would do when he heard the news, since he was so distraught while the child was sick. But when they told him, he cleaned himself up and went back to his normal routines. When asked about his behavior, he said, “While the child was sick, there was a chance that he would recover. But now he has died. I can’t bring him back. I know that I will go where he is, but he can’t come back.”

So instead of Jesus spending a lot of time discussing what happened to the Galileans, He turns their attention to themselves. He said, “Those Galileans didn’t die because they were worse sinners than all the other Galileans. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will die just like they did.”

I think that there is every possibility that Jesus was thinking about the destruction of Jerusalem that would happen in 70 A.D. as a result of their rejecting Him.