Emphasis Preaching Journal

Since the book of Job, people have been pointing fingers at the sufferer. The old Jewish idea said that if someone suffered, it meant they had done something wrong and were being punished. Jesus fractured that idea by saying that suffering came to all -- the Galileans persecuted by Pilate, those eighteen killed when the towers of Siloam fell, all those that heard him tell the story. No need to point fingers of judgment at those in hard times. God's judgment does not work that way.