Then some tax collectors came to him to be immersed and asked him, “Teacher, what must we do [i.e., to demonstrate our repentance]?”
Luke 3:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Then the crowds asked him, “What then must we do [i.e., to demonstrate our repentance]?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the multitudes asked him, Then what shall we do? American Standard Version (1901) And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then must we do? Common English Bible The crowds asked him, “What then should we do?” Catholic Public Domain Version And the crowed was questioning him, saying, "What then should we do?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do? |
Then some tax collectors came to him to be immersed and asked him, “Teacher, what must we do [i.e., to demonstrate our repentance]?”
Some soldiers on duty also asked him, “And what must we do [i.e., to demonstrate our repentance]?” And he answered them, “Do not force people to give you money or accuse them falsely, and be content with your pay.”
Demonstrate by your lives that you have [really] repented, and quit saying to yourselves, ‘We claim Abraham as our forefather,’ because I tell you, God is able to make Abraham’s children out of these stones.
After bringing them out [of the jail area] he said, “Sirs, what do I have to do to be saved?”
Now when the people heard this message [of Peter and the other apostles, See verse 14], they were convicted [of its truth] in their hearts and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do [about our condemned condition]?”
And Peter replied, “Every one of you must repent [i.e., change your hearts and lives] and be immersed in the name of Jesus Christ [i.e., by His authority] so that your sins will be forgiven [by God] and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit [to live in your hearts].
but get up, and enter the city [of Damascus] and [there] you will be told what you must do.”