Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, *Rabbi, what must we do?*
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
The multitudes asked him, *What then must we do?*
He said to them, *Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.*
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been immersed with Yochanan's immersion.
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Kefa and the rest of the emissaries, *Brothers, what shall we do?*