Luke 7:29

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Everyone had been listening to John. Even the tax collectors had obeyed God and had done what was right by letting John baptize them.

Cross References

Psalm 51:4

You are really the one I have sinned against; I have disobeyed you and have done wrong. So it is right and fair for you to correct and punish me.

Matthew 5:46

If you love only those people who love you, will God reward you for that? Even tax collectors love their friends.

Luke 20:6

And we can't say that it was merely some human who gave John the right to baptize. The crowd will stone us to death, because they think John was a prophet.”

Luke 3:12

When tax collectors came to be baptized, they asked John, “Teacher, what should we do?”

Luke 7:28

No one ever born on this earth is greater than John. But whoever is least important in God's kingdom is greater than John.

Luke 7:35

Yet Wisdom is shown to be right by what its followers do.

Acts 18:25

He also knew much about the Lord's Way, and he spoke about it with great excitement. What he taught about Jesus was right, but all he knew was John's message about baptism.

Acts 19:3

“Then why were you baptized?” Paul asked. They answered, “Because of what John taught.”

Romans 10:3

what makes people acceptable to him. So they refuse to trust God, and they try to be acceptable by obeying the Law.

Revelation 15:3

and they were singing the song that his servant Moses and the Lamb had sung. They were singing, “Lord God All-Powerful, you have done great and marvellous things. You are the ruler of all nations, and you do what is right and fair.

Revelation 16:5

Then I heard the angel, who has power over water, say, “You have always been, and you always will be the holy God. You had the right to judge in this way.

Judges 1:7

and he said, “I've cut off the thumbs and big toes of seventy kings and made those kings crawl around under my table for scraps of food. Now God is paying me back.” The army of Judah took the king of Bezek along with them to Jerusalem, where he died.