Luke 7:29
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
KJV
καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἀκούσας καὶ οἱ τελῶναι ἐδικαίωσαν τὸν θεόν, βαπτισθέντες τὸ βάπτισμα Ἰωάννου·
Greek NT
Et omnis populus audiens et publicani, justificaverunt Deum, baptizati baptismo Joannis.
Vulgate
And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
ASV
And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βάπτισμα
baptisma
noun · 20×
βαπτίζω
baptizo
verb · 77×
δικαιόω
dikaioo
verb · 39×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
τελώνης
telones
noun · 21×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§545Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."258 He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast "joy in heaven over one sinner who repents".259 The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life…
Cross-references
- Luke 3:12 — Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
- Luke 3:12 — Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
- Luke 7:35 — But wisdom is justified of all her children.
- Luke 7:35 — But wisdom is justified of all her children.
- Luke 15:1 — Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
- Matt 11:12 — And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Matt 11:19 — The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
- Matt 19:30 — But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
- Matt 21:31 — Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
- Matt 21:32 — For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe
- Ps 51:4 — Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.