Luke 11:26

11:26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so 1  the last state of that person 2  is worse than the first.” 3 

Luke 13:4

13:4 Or those eighteen who were killed 4  when the tower in Siloam fell on them, 5  do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem? 6 

1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.

2 tn Grk “man.” This is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo"), referring to both males and females.

3 sn The point of the story is that to fail to respond is to risk a worse fate than when one started.

4 tn Grk “on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them.” This relative clause embedded in a prepositional phrase is complex in English and has been simplified to an adjectival and a temporal clause in the translation.

5 sn Unlike the previous event, when the tower in Siloam fell on them, it was an accident of fate. It raised the question, however, “Was this a judgment?”

6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.