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Individual Responsibility. 16 Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for one’s own crime shall a person be put to death.(A)

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But their children he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for one’s own crimes shall a person be put to death.”(A)

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27 [a](A)For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:27 The parousia and final judgment are described in Mt 25:31 in terms almost identical with these.

[a]His disciples asked him,(A) “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:2 See note on Jn 5:14, and Ex 20:5, that parents’ sins were visited upon their children. Jesus denies such a cause and emphasizes the purpose: the infirmity was providential.