Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
Luke 7:29 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been immersed with Yochanan's immersion. 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. |
Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that Yochanan was a prophet.*
Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, *Rabbi, what must we do?*
*For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than Yochanan the immerser, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.*
This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Yeshua, although he knew only the immersion of Yochanan.
He said, *Into what then were you immersed?* They said, *Into Yochanan's immersion.*
For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
They sang the song of Moshe, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, *Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
I heard the angel of the waters saying, *You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
Adoni-Bezek said, *Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me.* They brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died there.