Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them — do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you too will all perish — the repeated unless you repent, you too will all perish is the chapter's first organizing refrain. The accidents of history are not interpretive keys to the victims' spiritual standing but calls to the living to examine their own.

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