Luke 3:12

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

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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, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

13He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

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Cross References

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

Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear 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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