The tower in Siloam

(ο πυργος εν Σιλωαμ). Few sites have been more clearly located than this. Jesus mentions this accident (only in Luke) of his own accord to illustrate still further the responsibility of his hearers. Jesus makes use of public events in both these incidents to teach spiritual lessons. He gives the "moral" to the massacre of the Galilean pilgrims and the "moral" of the catastrophe at Siloam.Offenders

(οφειλετα). Literally,debtors

, not sinners as in verse Luke 13:2 and as the Authorized Version renders here. See Luke 7:41; Luke 11:4; Matthew 6:12; Matthew 18:24-34.

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Old Testament