Luke 13:3

“I tell you, No. But, except you repent, you will all similarly perish.”

Jesus' reply is that that their deaths do not indicate that they were worse sinners than anyone else. They were not necessarily the more guilty because they died violently. Judgment is not always so direct. And then He seizes the opportunity to apply the lesson. Let them in fact recognise that unless they repent they will all perish similarly. Let the judgments that are in the earth teach them righteousness before it is too late.

Some have seen in this a hint concerning the coming desolation of Jerusalem when many would perish ‘in the same way' because they had failed to respond to Jesus' message of love and forgiveness. Had they done so the destruction of Jerusalem would never have happened. But it seems more likely that He is thinking rather of the last Judgment.