Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?
The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’
So the crowds were asking him, “What then should we do?”
He told them, “Collect no more than you are required to.”
(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.
Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”