Luke 3:12

Some tax collectors came and asked to be baptized ( asked him to baptize them}. They asked him, “Teacher, what shall we (exc) do to please God?”

Translation for Translators

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 them, “If any of you has two shirts, you should give one of them to someone who has no shirt. If any of you has plenty of food, you should give some to those who have no food.”

13He said to them, “Do not take from the people any more money than the Roman government tells you to take!”

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31So which of the man’s two sons did what their father desired?” They answered, “The older son.” Jesus explained to them what that parable meant by saying, “Think about this: It is more likely that other people, including tax collectors and prostitutes, whom you think are very sinful, will enter where God rules, than it is that you Jewish leaders will enter.

Luke 15:1Many [HYP] tax collectors and others whom people considered to be habitual sinners kept coming to Jesus to listen to him teach.

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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