And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galilæans were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they have suffered these things?
And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?
And when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.
Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?
Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.