LUKE 12:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.”
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish — Jesus refuses to answer the theodicy question about the specific victims and redirects it to the questioners' own mortality. The Galileans' sudden death is not evidence of special guilt but of the universal urgency to repent before death arrives unexpectedly. The same logic applies to the eighteen killed when the Tower of Siloam fell: they were not more guilty than all others living in Jerusalem.
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