The Galilaeans Whose Blood Pilate…

“The Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices” (Luke 13:1). This biblical citation is the rarity about which neither additional biblical mention occurs or is there any known witness in the secular, historical record from which one might gain additional insight. “This event is extant in no other historical record than Luke’s” (Butler 279). Commentators offer speculations based on what little information appears in Luke 13:1, but no substantive information that can be verified.Image

Works Cited

Butler, Paul T. The Gospel of Luke. CD-ROM. Joplin: College P., 1981.

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