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Luke 3:12
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Luke 3:12
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12 (A) When tax collectors[a] came to be baptized, they asked John, “Teacher, what should we do?”
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- 3.12 tax collectors: These were usually Jewish people who paid the Romans for the right to collect taxes. They were hated by other Jews who thought of them as traitors to their country and to their religion.
Luke 3:12
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Luke 3:12
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12 Even tax collectors came to be baptized.(A) “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
Luke 7:29
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Luke 7:29
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29 (A) Everyone had been listening to John. Even the tax collectors[a] had obeyed God and had done what was right by letting John baptize them.
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- 7.29 tax collectors: See the note at 3.12.
Luke 7:29
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Luke 7:29
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29 (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptized by John.(A)
Luke 7:30
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Luke 7:30
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30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law of Moses refused to obey God and be baptized by John.
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Luke 7:30
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Luke 7:30
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30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law(A) rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
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