Luke 7:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.”
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“All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 7:29 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- Psalms 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
- Matthew 3:5People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
- Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
- Luke 3:12Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
- Luke 7:35But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
- Acts 18:25He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
- Acts 19:3“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.
- Romans 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
- Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
- Revelation 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- Revelation 16:5And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
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