Luke 7:29
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
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Luke 7:29
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
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Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
Matthew 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
Matthew 21:29
He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
Matthew 21:30
He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.
Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
Luke 13:30
Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”
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Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Luke 20:6
But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”
John 10:41
Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”
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Romans 3:4
May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
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Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
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Matthew 3:5
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
Matthew 3:6
They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mark 1:4
John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
John 1:26
John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
John 3:23
John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came and were baptized;
Acts 10:37
you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
Acts 13:24
before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
Acts 19:3
He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
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Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
Luke 15:2
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
Luke 5:30
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
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Psalms 51:4
Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
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Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
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Mark 5:12
All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”
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