For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
Luke 3:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Tax collectors also came to be baptised, and they asked him, ‘Teacher, what should we do? ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, Teacher, what shall we do? American Standard Version (1901) And there came also publicans to be baptized, and they said unto him, Teacher, what must we do? Common English Bible Even tax collectors came to be baptized. They said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?” Catholic Public Domain Version Now the tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we do?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the publicans also came to be baptized, and said to him: Master, what shall we do? |
For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
‘But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, “God, have mercy on me, , a sinner! ”
He told them, ‘Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorised.’
(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptised with John’s baptism.
When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Brothers, what should we do? ’