Luke 7:29

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been immersed with John [Yah is gracious]’s mikvah ·ritual washing baptism·.

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In The King James Version

And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

In Context

28“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John [Yah is gracious] the Immerser, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”

30But the Pharisees [Separated] and the Torah-experts rejected ·to set aside, neutralize, violate, cast off, nullify, make void· the counsel of God, not being immersed by him themselves.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:4Against you, and you only, have I sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, 2 and done that which is evil in your sight; 1 that you may be proved right when you speak, 2 and justified when you judge. + 51:4. Quoted in Rom 3:4 1

Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Yeshua [Salvation] said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

Luke 7:35Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Matthew Henry on Luke 7:20-36

John's Message to Jesus; The Ministry of John and of Christ. 19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them,… Read the whole commentary →

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