Luke 3:12

Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and said to John, “Teacher, what are we to do?”

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

In Context

11“Let anyone who has two coats,” answered John, “share with the person who has none; and anyone who has food do the same.”

13“Do not collect more than you have authority to demand,” John answered.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31Which of the two sons did as his father wished?” “The second,” they said. “I tell you,” added Jesus, “that tax collectors and prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God before you.

Luke 15:1The tax collectors and the outcasts were all drawing near to Jesus to listen to 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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