Luke 3:12
3:12 Tax collectors
also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
Luke 15:1
The Parable of the Lost Sheep and Coin
15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.
Luke 7:29
7:29 (Now
all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors,
acknowledged
God’s justice, because they had been baptized
with John’s baptism.
Luke 18:10
18:10 “Two men went up
to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee
and the other a tax collector.
Luke 5:27
The Call of Levi; Eating with Sinners
5:27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.
Luke 5:29-30
5:29 Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.
5:30 But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Luke 7:34
7:34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him,
a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Luke 18:11
18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this:
‘God, I thank
you that I am not like other people:
extortionists,
unrighteous people,
adulterers – or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:13
18:13 The tax collector, however, stood
far off and would not even look up
to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful
to me, sinner that I am!’