In Luke 13:4, Jesus compares the deaths of the aforementioned worshipers in the Temple to another group of eighteen men who died when the Tower of Siloam fell on them. He asked the crowd to determine if there was a difference from the standpoint of sinfulness between the two groups that died?
A modern example of this might be as follows:
This is an article that appeared in the Baltimore Sun newspaper:
Mayor Sheila Dixon and Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III today implored residents of a Northeast Baltimore neighborhood to help authorities solve the fatal slaying of a former city councilman who was gunned down early this morning during a robbery of a jazz club.
About 1:45 a.m., Kenneth N. Harris Sr., 45, was shot once in the upper body outside the New Haven Lounge, in the Northwood Plaza shopping center after he ran from three men who accosted him and the club's owner at the front door, police said.
One of the men shot Harris, a married father with two children, who was able to get into his car and drive a short distance away before stopping. The three suspects robbed the club owner and other employees inside the store, and then fled out a back door into the Hillen neighborhood.
"We really need the community, if they have any information, to speak up on this," said Dixon during a news conference at police headquarters, where she was flanked by the police commissioner and other city council members. "It's just extremely hard, right at this moment, to speak about how traumatic this is for our city and our community."
Harris, who lost a bid for City Council President last year, had stopped by the New Haven Lounge, which regularly features musical acts, to greet the owner, Keith Covington, and borrow a corkscrew, a police spokesman said.
Paramedics transported Harris to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 2 a.m., police said. Harris's family, through a spokesman, issued a brief written statement.
The murder victim in this article appears to be an innocent man who happened to stop by a friends place to pick up a cork screw and was randomly killed during a robbery. In Mr. Harris’s obituary it is noted that he was a member of the Baptist church, was married and was the father of two children.
Christ asks us in Luke 13:2 - 5, if there is any difference between the man (in regards to salvation) who was murdered and those who murdered him? The answer is that God tells us that we must repent in order to achieve salvation, period. If the man who was murdered was unable to repent prior to dying and the man who murdered him had plenty of time on death row to repent before being executed, that would strike us as being unfair.
The truth is that we don’t know how long we have to repent and accept Jesus as our personal Savior. The bible says that tomorrow is promised to no man and that God hates sin but loves the sinner.
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