Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
Verse Takeaways
1
Tragedy Isn't a Sin-Meter
Jesus uses the real-life tragedy of a tower collapse to challenge a common assumption. Commentators stress that Jesus is teaching his audience not to view the victims of accidents or disasters as greater sinners than anyone else. The eighteen who died were not being punished for being 'worse' than their neighbors in Jerusalem. This corrects the human tendency to blame victims for their misfortune.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Luke
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
7
18th Century
Presbyterian
Or those eighteen. Jesus himself adds another similar case to warn them — a case which had probably occurred not long before, and which it…
The tower in Siloam (ο πυργος εν Σιλωαμ). Few sites have been more clearly located than this. Jesus mentions this accident (only i…
19th Century
Anglican
Upon whom the tower in Siloam fell.—Here, again, we have a reference to an incident not recorded elsewhere. It was clearly one that had im…
Your support helps us maintain this resource for everyone
Baptist
This was a foreshadowing of the overthrow of Jerusalem, and the razing of its walls and towers to the ground, which happened not long after; and ev…
We cannot be certain as to the exact incident referred to in v.1. The social tension made revolutionary activity in those days possible at any time…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Or those eighteen Men; the Persic version reads, "those twelve"; but all copies, and other versions, agree in this n…
Get curated content & updates
Christ was informed about the death of some Galileans. This tragic story is briefly recounted here and is not mentioned by historians. In Christ's …
