Luke 3:12

Some tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11John answered them, “Whoever has two tunics must share with him who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”

13He said to them, “Collect no more than what you have been authorized to collect.”

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.

Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were 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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