Luke 3:12

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

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

In Context

11He answered and said to them, “If someone has two tunics, he should share it with a person who has none, and the one having food should do the same.”

13He said to them, “Do not collect more money than you have been ordered to collect.”

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31Which of the two sons did his father's will?” They said, “The first one.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes will enter the kingdom of God before you do.

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