Luke 13:3-5 "3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." This is a sobering parable rarely taught in children’s Sunday school. It is prompted by news of a shocking atrocity: Pontius Pilate had ordered the slaughter of Galilean Jews while they were offering sacrifices in the Temple. The vivid phrase “mingled their blood with their sacrifices” paints a gruesome picture of worshippers killed in the midst of a sacred act. Jesus immediately confronts a common misconception. The people reporting the tragedy apparently assumed these Galileans must have been worse sinners than others to deserve such a fate. Jesus directly challenges this: “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered th...