Our Lord does not say-ThoseGalilæans were not sinners at all.
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001:011 who said, Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky?
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Jesus said to them, Do you suppose these Galilaeans were sinners above all other Galilaeans because they suffered such things?
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"This is the work of the Galilaeans," said Julian, "but they shall pay for it."
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Think ye that they whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they suffered such things?
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These Galilæans, it seems, were no worse than the other Galilæans: yet they were singled out as examples: as warnings to the rest.
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Did not Julian-andhe must be our model-forbidthe persecution of the Galilaeans, considering them sufficiently punished by their own atheism and self-tormenting superstition?'
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In truth the first Christians were merely one hundred and twenty Galilaeans, who asserted to their co-religionists, that Jesus of Nazareth was the ejected Messiah.
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2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
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'Thinkest thou,' he says, 'that those Galilæans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices, were sinners above all the Galilæans?
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13:1 There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
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13:2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?