I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
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I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
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I tell you naye: But excepte ye repent ye all shall lykewyse perisshe.
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I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish.
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Passages linked to Luke 13:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 18:30 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.
- Luke 13:3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
- Isaiah 28:10-13 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language, to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear. Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent,…
5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Ver. 5. But except ye repent] Except the best of you all repent more and more when ye see the examples of God’s wrath, &c. God would not have the wounds of godly sorrow so healed up in his own children, but that they should bleed afresh upon every good occasion. De aliorum plagis faciamus medicamenta vulneribus nostris. Make best use of others’ miseries.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I tell you, nay,.... I affirm it, and you…
I tell you, nay,.... I affirm it, and you may depend upon it, they were not greater sinners than others: though such a melancholy accident befell them, not without the providence of God:
but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; or perish in the same manner; that is, shall be buried under the ruins of the city and temple of Jerusalem, when one stone should not be left upon another; just as these eighteen men were buried under the ruins of the tower of Siloam, of which it was a pledge and emblem; and accordingly great numbers of them did perish in the temple, and were buried under the ruins of it (d).
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(d) Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 4.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. Ye shall all likewise perish.] ωσαυτως, ομοιως,…
Verse 5. Ye shall all likewise perish.] ωσαυτως, ομοιως, In a like way, in the same manner. This prediction of our Lord was literally fulfilled. When the city was taken by the Romans, multitudes of the priests, c., who were going on with their sacrifices, were slain, and their blood mingled with the blood of their victims and multitudes were buried under the ruins of the walls, houses, and temple. See Josephus, War, b. vi. ch. iv., v., vi.; and see the notes on Matt. 24.
It is very wrong to suppose that those who suffer by the sword, or by natural accidents, are the most culpable before God. An adequate punishment for sin cannot be inflicted in this world: what God does here, in this way, is in general:
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1st, through mercy, to alarm others;
2, to show his hatred to sin;
3, to preserve in men's minds a proper sense of his providence and justice; and
4, to give sinners, in one or two particular instances, a general specimen of the punishment that awaits all the perseveringly impenitent.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I tell you, Nay - It is improper to…
I tell you, Nay - It is improper to suppose that those on whom heavy judgments fall in this world are the worst of people. This is not a world of retribution. Often the most wicked are suffered to prosper here, and their punishment is reserved for another world; while the righteous are called to suffer much, and “appear” to be under the sore displeasure of God, Ps. 73. This only we know, that the wicked will not always escape; that God is just; and that none who do suffer here or hereafter, suffer more than they deserve. In the future world, all that seems to be unequal here will be made equal and plain.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Unless you do penance, &c. The Jews did not…
Unless you do penance, &c. The Jews did not penance; and therefore, forty years after our Lord’s Passion, the Romans came, and beginning with Galilee, destroyed this impious nation to its roots, and polluted not only the court of the temple, whither the sacrifices were carried, but the inner sanctuary, with human blood. (Ven. Bede)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. ye shall all likewise perish] The readings of…
5. ye shall all likewise perish] The readings of the word ‘likewise’ vary between ‘homoios’ and ‘hosautos;’ but no distinct difference of meaning between the two words can be established, unless the latter be rather stronger, ‘in the very same way.’ Here again the actual incidents of the siege of Jerusalem—the deaths of many under the falling ruins of the city (Jos. B. J. vi. 9, vii. 1)—are the directest comment on our Lord’s words which yet bear the wider significance of the warning in Rom_2:1-11 r.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. The…
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. The words were indeed prophetic to the letter. Thousands of Jews perished in the last terrible war by the swords of the Roman legionaries, like the Galilaeans of ver. 1; not a few met their death in the capital among the ruins of the burning fallen houses. We know that Jerusalem in its entirety was destroyed, and the loss of life in the siege, and especially in its dread closing scenes, was simply incalculable. Within forty years all this happened.
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