And tax collectors also came to be immersed, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”
“For if you love those loving you, what reward have you? Are the tax collectors not doing the same too?
“But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’
And the crowds asked him, saying, “What, then, shall we do?”
And he said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed for you.”
And all the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard, declared Elohim righteous, having been immersed with the immersion of Yoḥ
And having heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Kĕ