For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
Luke 7:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And all the people who heard Him, even the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God [in calling them to repentance and in pronouncing future wrath on the impenitent], being baptized with the baptism of John. American Standard Version (1901) And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. Common English Bible Everyone who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice because they had been baptized by John. Catholic Public Domain Version And upon hearing this, all the people and the tax collectors justified God, by being baptized with the baptism of John. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism. |
For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
But if we say, “Of human origin,” all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.’
Tax collectors also came to be baptised, and they asked him, ‘Teacher, what should we do? ’
I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John, but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.’
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only John’s baptism.
‘Into what then were you baptised? ’ he asked them. ‘Into John’s baptism,’ they replied.
Since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb: Great and awe-inspiring are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, King of the nations. ,
I heard the angel of the waters say, You are just, the Holy One, who is and who was, because you have passed judgement on these things.
Adoni-bezek said, ‘Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.’ They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.