Luke 13:3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

English Standard Version
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
No, I say to you: but unless you shall 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 the same manner.

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 13

Lu 13:1-9. The Lesson, "REPENT OR Perish," Suggested by Two Recent Incidents, and Illustrated by the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree.

1-3. Galileans—possibly the followers of Judas of Galilee, who, some twenty years before this, taught that Jews should not pay tribute to the Romans, and of whom we learn, from Ac 5:37, that he drew after him a multitude of followers, who on his being slain were all dispersed. About this time that party would be at its height, and if Pilate caused this detachment of them to be waylaid and put to death as they were offering their sacrifices at one of the festivals, that would be "mingling their blood with their sacrifices" [Grotius, Webster and Wilkinson, but doubted by De Wette, Meyer, Alford, &c.]. News of this being brought to our Lord, to draw out His views of such, and whether it was not a judgment of Heaven, He simply points them to the practical view of the matter: "These men are not signal examples of divine vengeance, as ye suppose; but every impenitent sinner—ye yourselves, except ye repent—shall be like monuments of the judgment of Heaven, and in a more awful sense." The reference here to the impending destruction of Jerusalem is far from exhausting our Lord's weighty words; they manifestly point to a "perdition" of a more awful kind—future, personal, remediless.