repentance. He insists that those Galileans did not suffer that fate because they were greater sinners than others in Galilee; but their sudden death challenges those still alive to repentance, to a reformation of life ( = an acceptance in faith of the saving word of God that he has come to announce). The existence of others can also be suddenly terminated in a similar way. Jesus plays at one-upmanship, matching the story of the deliberate, gruesome death of the Galileans with that of the accidental