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King James Bible - Luke 13:2

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:2

Y respondiendo Jes�s, les dijo: ¿Pens�is que estos galileos, porque han padecido tales cosas, hayan sido m�s pecadores que todos los Galileos?

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 2. And Jesus answering, said unto them , etc.] Neither approving, nor condemning Pilate's action; and though he allowed the Galileans to be sinners, which could not be denied, he does not bear hard upon them, but improves the instance for the conviction of his hearers, and in order to show them the necessity of repentance, and to bring them to it: suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? such a supposition they seem to have made, by their speaking to Christ concerning this matter; and concluded from their violent and untimely deaths, that they had been notorious and uncommon sinners, and guilty of the most enormous crimes, which had brought upon them the just judgments of God: whereas this is not a rule of judging; oftentimes the best of men suffer exceedingly in this life; God's judgments are a great deep, and not to be fathomed by us, nor is it to be easily known, when any thing befalls persons in a way of judgment; there is nothing comes by chance, but every thing by the wise disposal of divine providence, to answer some end or another; nor are persons that are punished, either immediately by the hand of God, or by the civil magistrate, to be insulted, but rather to be pitied; besides, love and hatred, the characters and states of men, are not to be known by these effects in providence.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 1-5 - Mention was made to Christ of the death of some Galileans. Thi tragical story is briefly related here, and is not met with in an historians. In Christ's reply he spoke of another event, which, lik it, gave an instance of people taken away by sudden death. Towers, tha are built for safety, often prove to be men's destruction. He cautione his hearers not to blame great sufferers, as if they were therefore to be accounted great sinners. As no place or employment can secure from the stroke of death, we should consider the sudden removals of other as warnings to ourselves. On these accounts Christ founded a call to repentance. The same Jesus that bids us repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, bids us repent, for otherwise we shall perish.

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Greek Textus Receptus

και 2532 CONJ αποκριθεις 611 5679 V-AOP-NSM ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S αυτοις 846 P-DPM δοκειτε 1380 5719 V-PAI-2P οτι 3754 CONJ οι 3588 T-NPM γαλιλαιοι 1057 N-NPM ουτοι 3778 D-NPM αμαρτωλοι 268 A-NPM παρα 3844 PREP παντας 3956 A-APM τους 3588 T-APM γαλιλαιους 1057 N-APM εγενοντο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3P οτι 3754 CONJ τοιαυτα 5108 D-APN πεπονθασιν 3958 5754 V-2RAI-3P

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Robertson's NT Word Studies

13:2 {Sinners above all} (hamartwloi para pantas). para means "beside," placed beside all the Galileans, and so beyond or above (with the accusative). {Have suffered} (peponqasin). Second perfect active indicative third plural from pascw, common verb, to experience, suffer. The tense notes that it is "an irrevocable fact" (Bruce).