Luke 3:12

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Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”

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(When they heard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John;

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

And the multitudes asked him, “What then shall we do?”

And he said to them, “Collect no more than is appointed you.”

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”