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# Or those
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This is Jesus's second example of people who suffered. Alternate translation: "Or consider those" or "Think about those"
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# eighteen people
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"18 people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
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# Siloam
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This is the name of an area in Jerusalem. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])
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# do you think they were worse sinners ... Jerusalem?
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Jesus uses this question to challenge the understanding of the people. He answers the question in 13:4. Alternate translation: "does this prove that they were more sinful ... Jerusalem?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# they were worse sinners
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The crowd assumed that they died in this terrible way because they were especially sinful. This could be explicitly stated. Alternate translation: "they died because they were worse sinners" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# other men
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"other people." The word here is the general term for a person. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-gendernotations]])
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