At that time some people who were present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices — the report functions as a theodicy question: what theological meaning should be assigned to the victims of Pilate's atrocity? Were they worse sinners than all the other Galileans? Jesus explicitly rejects the sin-disaster causation formula while converting the question into a summons to repentance.

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