Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?
We have here, I. Tidings brought to Christ of the death of some Galileans lately, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices, Luk 13:1. Let us consider, 1. What this tragical story was. It is briefly related here, and is not met with in any of the historians of those times.
Commenting on Luke 13:1-5
Or those eighteen,.... Men; the Persic version reads, "those twelve"; but all copies, and other versions, agree in this number: upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them; there was a pool near Jerusalem, called the Pool of Siloam, Joh 9:7 near, or over which, was a tower built, which fell down and killed eighteen men; very likely as they were purifying themselves...
Verse 4. Or those eighteen. Jesus himself adds another similar case, to warn them --a case which had probably occurred not long before, and which it is likely they judged in the same manner. Upon whom the tower in Siloam fell.