Contradiction in Luke 13:1-5

[joseie]

I often wonder why there is no explanation for the apparent inconsistency in the verses of Luke 13:1-5. In the first part Jesus affirms that the both the incidences (mingling of blood and fall of Siloam tower )are not because those killed were more sinners .But in the second part He says that if you don’t repent (for the sins ?) you will also perish likewise which means because of the sins only they were killed. Can anybody explain the contradiction ?

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

At that time some people who were present there told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them —do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!”

I think you’re reading more into it than is there. Jesus was refuting the idea that we often have that bad things happen to other people, people who are “bigger sinners” than we are. Jesus was pointing out that we cannot take the lack of tragedy in our lives as a sign that we are not sinners or that because someone else suffers that they are a bigger sinner than we are.
We all have need to repent because we never know when we will be before the judgment seat.