Luke 13:5
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New International Version (©2011)
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."

New Living Translation (©2007)
No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too."

English Standard Version (©2001)
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!"

International Standard Version (©2012)
Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die."

NET Bible (©2006)
No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!"

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“No, but I say to you, unless you repent, all of you shall be destroyed like they were.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
No! I can guarantee that they weren't. But if you don't turn to God and change the way you think and act, then you, too, will all die."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I tell you, Nay: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

American King James Version
I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

American Standard Version
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

Darby Bible Translation
No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner.

English Revised Version
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Webster's Bible Translation
I tell you, No; but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Weymouth New Testament
I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you do not repent you will all perish just as they did."

World English Bible
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way."

Young's Literal Translation
No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:1-5 Mention was made to Christ of the death of some Galileans. This tragical story is briefly related here, and is not met with in any historians. In Christ's reply he spoke of another event, which, like it, gave an instance of people taken away by sudden death. Towers, that are built for safety, often prove to be men's destruction. He cautioned his hearers not to blame great sufferers, as if they were therefore to be accounted great sinners. As no place or employment can secure from the stroke of death, we should consider the sudden removals of others as warnings to ourselves. On these accounts Christ founded a call to repentance. The same Jesus that bids us repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, bids us repent, for otherwise we shall perish.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - 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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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).

(d) Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 4.

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A Call to Repentance
…3I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. 4Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think you that they were sinners above all men that dwelled in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them--do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?
Luke 13:6 Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.