For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Luke 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Even tax collectors came to be baptized, 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 do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
He said to them, “Collect no more than the amount prescribed for you.”
(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been baptized with John's baptism.
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”