Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
I tell you, Nay - It is improper to suppose that those on whom heavy judgments fall in this world are the worst of people. This is not a world of retribution. Often the most wicked are suffered to prosper here, and their punishment is reserved for another world; while the righteous are called to suffer much, and "appear" to be under the sore displeasure of God, Ps. 73. This only we know, that the wicked will not always escape; that God is just; and that none who do suffer here or hereafter, suffer more than they deserve. In the future world, all that seems to be unequal here will be made equal and plain.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Luke 13:5:
Job 4:7
Job 9:22
Psalms 38:3
Lamentations 4:6
Romans 2:4
Jude 1:11
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