Luke 13:2

were sinners above all the Galileans The -were" is literally, -became," i.e. -stamped themselves as," -proved themselves to be." We trace a similar mistaken -supposition" in the question of the disciples about the blind man (John 9:2). It was indeed deeply engrained in the Jewish mind, although the Book of Job had been expressly levelled at the uncharitable error of assuming that individual misfortune could onlybe the consequence of individual crime. Such is sometimesthe case (Genesis 42:21; Judges 1:7), but although all human sorrow has its ultimate cause in human sin, it is wrong to assume in individual casesthe connexion of calamity with crime.

suffered such things Rather, have suffered these things.