All those who refuse to repent are in peril of finding themselves shut out in the street while the banquet goes forward within (13:25). Ironically, the universalistic ethic of Luke’s theology has at its base the same profound threat of exclusion as that of the OT theology of the damnation of the wicked. ■ 6–9 The slaughter of the Galileans and the death of those at the tower of Siloam serves as the foreground to the parable of the fig tree. This
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