Eighteen Dead Men

“Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?” Luke 13:4  Sometimes the Bible introduces us to a historical event in one verse, only to see it vanish forever by the next verse. The event in Siloam that Jesus mentions in the fourth verse of Luke 13 did happen, but then it disappears from Scripture by verse 5. We are left to contemplate the meaning. It reminds us that events mentioned in the Bible are...