Luke 3:12

And publicans also came to be baptized. And they said to him: Teacher, what shall we do?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 and said to them: Whoever hath two tunics, let him give one to him that hath none; and whoever hath food, let him do the same.

13And he said to them: Exact no more than ye are required to exact.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31Which of these two performed the pleasure of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you That publicans and harlots go before you into the kingdom of God.

Luke 15:1And publicans and sinners came 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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