Then tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
“But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but struck his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
The people asked him, “What then must we do?”
He said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed you.”
All the people who heard Him, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God as righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John.
When they heard this, they were stung in the heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”