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Luke 3:12
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Luke 3:12
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12 (A) When tax collectors[a] came to be baptized, they asked John, “Teacher, what should we do?”
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- 3.12 tax collectors: These were usually Jewish people who paid the Romans for the right to collect taxes. They were hated by other Jews who thought of them as traitors to their country and to their religion.
Luke 7:29
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Luke 7:29
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29 (A) Everyone had been listening to John. Even the tax collectors[a] had obeyed God and had done what was right by letting John baptize them.
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- 7.29 tax collectors: See the note at 3.12.
Luke 7:30
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Luke 7:30
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30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law of Moses refused to obey God and be baptized by John.
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