Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
- BSB To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate?
- ESV And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?
- NKJV And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
- NASB And Jesus responded and said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans just because they have suffered this fate?
- NLT “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered?
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- John 9:2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
- Acts 28:4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
- Job 22:5–16Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
- Luke 13:4Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
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