Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 13:4
The tower in Siloam - This tower was probably built over one of the porticoes near the pool, which is mentioned John 9:7 . See also Nehemiah 3:15 . Debtors, οφειλεται , a Jewish phrase for sinners. Persons professing to be under the law are bound by the law to be obedient to all its precepts; those who obey not are reckoned debtors to the law, or rather to that Divine justice from which the law came. A different word is used when speaking of the Galileans: they are termed ἁμαρτωλοι... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 13:1
At that season - At what time this happened is not easy to determine; but it appears that it was now a piece of news which was told to Christ and his disciples for the first time. Whose blood Pilate had mingled - This piece of history is not recorded (as far as I can find) by Josephus: however, he states that the Galileans were the most seditious people in the land: they belonged properly to Herod's jurisdiction; but, as they kept the great feasts at Jerusalem, they probably, by their... read more