Some tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher, what should we do?” they also asked.
For if you only love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do that?
But the tax collector stood at a distance. He wouldn't even look up to heaven. Instead he beat his chest and prayed, ‘God, please be merciful to me. I am a sinner.’
“So what should we do?” the crowds asked him.
“Don't collect any more tax than you're meant to,” he replied.
When they heard him, all of them—even the tax collectors—followed what God said was good and right, for they had been baptized by John.
When the people heard this they were conscience-stricken. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”