Luke 3:12

Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?

In Context

11He answered and said to them, “He who has two shirts, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”

13And he said to them, “Collect nothing more than the amount which has been commanded to you.”

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to Him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you.

Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him.

Matthew Henry on Luke 3:2-15

Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4 As it is… Read the whole commentary →

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