Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should 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 far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
And the crowds asked him, “What, then, should we do?”
He said to them, “Collect no more than the amount prescribed for you.”
(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”