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: were these Galileans worse sinners, that they suffered such a death? Jesus explicitly refuses the sin-disaster causation formula: No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you too will all perish. The victims' tragedy becomes a summons to the questioners' repentance.

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