Luke 3:12

There came also a party of tax-gatherers to be baptized, and they asked him, "Rabbi, what are we to do?"

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11"Let the man who has two coats," he answered, "give one to the man who has none; and let the man who has food share it with others."

13"Do not exact more than the legal amount," he replied.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:31Which of the two did as his father desired?" "The first," they said. "I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.

Luke 15:1Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him 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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