Luke 7:29 “All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged G…”

Luke 7:29

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

Other translations

King James Version

And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

World English Bible

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

American Standard Version

And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then all the people that heard, and the Publicanes iustified God, being baptized with the baptisme of Iohn.

Darby Translation

(And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

Young's Literal Translation

And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

Bible in Basic English

(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

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Cross references

“justified”

Luke 7:35 Psalm 51:4 Romans 10:3 Revelation 15:3 Revelation 16:5 Judges 1:7

Luke 7:35 · BSB

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

Psalm 51:4 · BSB

Against 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.

Romans 10:3 · BSB

Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Revelation 15:3 · BSB

and 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 16:5 · BSB

And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.

Judges 1:7 · BSB

Then 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.

“being”

Luke 3:12 Matthew 3:5 Matthew 3:6 Matthew 21:31 Matthew 21:32

Luke 3:12 · BSB

Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

Matthew 3:5 · BSB

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.

Matthew 3:6 · BSB

Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

Matthew 21:31 · BSB

Which 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.

Matthew 21:32 · BSB

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

Also

Acts 18:25 Acts 19:3

Acts 18:25 · BSB

He 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 · BSB

“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

30But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

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