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Luke chapter 13 verses 1 through 5.

There were some present at that very time who told Jesus about the Galleians whose blood, pilot, had mingled with their sacrifices,

and he answered them, do you think that these Galleons were worse sinners than all the other Galleons?

Because they suffered in this way?

No, I tell you, but unless you repent,

you will all likewise perish.

Or those eighteen on whom the Tower and Saloam fell and killed them.

Do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?

No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

There's so much in this short passage,

but to summarize it, you have people who are asking Jesus about basically an instance of moral evil and an

instance of natural evil. This instance of moral evil, the Galleons whose blood pilot had mingled with their sacrifices.

So basically people who were offering sacrifices and were suddenly killed basically massacred.

And then the second instance is a tower and sloam

falling all of a sudden and killing 18 people. So that would be natural evil. Just something

happening not necessarily because like someone was massacring in the first group, but here in the second group just a situation where a tower suddenly fell and killed 18 people.

And you have these people coming to Jesus basically asking him like

were these people worse than others and I I read this and I think about

what's happening around us right now particularly in my country

but also around the world amidst all kinds of violence and moral evil on one hand and then natural evil in the middle of a pandemic. And Jesus' words, he says it twice, he says as you think

about these things, like don't try to determine like who's a worse sinner. That's what

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