Luke 3:12

Well even tax collectors came to be baptized by him and said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11In answer he said to them, “He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food should do likewise.”

13So He said to them, “Don't charge more than what was determined to you.”

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of the father?” They say to Him, “The first.” Jesus says to them: “Assuredly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you do.

Luke 15:1Then all the tax collectors and ‘sinners’ were getting close 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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