Even tax collectors came to be baptized and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
(All the people who listened, including the tax collectors, and who were baptized with the baptism of John, acknowledged the righteousness of God;
But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?
And the crowds asked him, “What then should we do?”
He answered them, “Stop collecting more than what is prescribed.”
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?”