Luke 3:12

And there also came tax collectors to be immersed, and they said to him, “Teacher, what will we do?”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11And he answering says to them, “He having two coats, let him impart to him having none; and he having food, let him do in like manner.”

13And he said to them, “Exact no more than that directed 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, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes go before you into the Kingdom of God,

Luke 15:1And all the tax collectors and sinners were coming 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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