Luke 7:29
New International Version
(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptized by John.

New Living Translation
When they heard this, all the people—even the tax collectors—agreed that God’s way was right, for they had been baptized by John.

English Standard Version
(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

Berean Standard Bible
All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

Berean Literal Bible
And all the people having heard, even the tax collectors, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

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

New King James Version
And when all the people heard Him, even the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

New American Standard Bible
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

NASB 1995
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

NASB 1977
And when all the people and the tax-gatherers heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

Legacy Standard Bible
And when all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

Amplified Bible
All the people and the tax collectors who heard Jesus, acknowledged [the validity of] God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

Christian Standard Bible
(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all the people who heard and also the Tax Collectors justified God, for they had been baptized by the baptism of Yohannan.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone had been listening to John. Even the tax collectors had obeyed God and had done what was right by letting John baptize them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"All the people, including tax collectors, heard John. They admitted that God was right by letting John baptize them.

Good News Translation
All the people heard him; they and especially the tax collectors were the ones who had obeyed God's righteous demands and had been baptized by John.

International Standard Version
By having been baptized with John's baptism, all the people who listened, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice.

Literal Standard Version
And all the people having heard, and the tax collectors, declared God righteous, having been immersed with the immersion of John,

Majority Standard Bible
All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

New American Bible
(All the people who listened, including the tax collectors, and who were baptized with the baptism of John, acknowledged the righteousness of God;

NET Bible
(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice, because they had been baptized with John's baptism.

New Revised Standard Version
(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

New Heart 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Weymouth New Testament
And all the people, including the tax-gatherers, when they listened to him upheld the righteousness of God, by being baptized with John's baptism.

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.

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,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jesus Testifies about John
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.” 29 All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John. 30But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.…

Cross References
Matthew 5:46
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 21:31
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
For John came to you in a righteous way 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.

Luke 3:12
Even tax collectors came to be baptized. "Teacher," they asked, "what should we do?"

Luke 7:28
I 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."

Luke 7:35
But wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

Luke 20:6
But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet."


Treasury of Scripture

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

justified.

Luke 7:35
But wisdom is justified of all her children.

Judges 1:7
And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

Psalm 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.

being.

Luke 3:12
Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?

Matthew 3:5,6
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, …

Matthew 21:31,32
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…

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Luke 7
1. Jesus finds a greater faith in the centurion;
10. heals his servant, being absent;
11. raises from death the widow's son at Nain;
18. answers John's messengers with the declaration of his miracles;
24. testifies to the people what opinion he held of John;
31. compares this generation to the children in the marketplaces,
36. and allowing his feet to be washed and anointed by a woman who was a sinner,
44. he shows how he is a friend to sinners, to forgive them their sins, upon their repentance.














(29) And all the people that heard him . . .--Here the reports begin to vary, St. Luke omitting what we find in St. Matthew as to "the kingdom of heaven suffering violence;" and St. Luke interposing a statement, probably intended for his Gentile readers, as to the effect produced by the preaching of the Baptist on the two classes who stood at opposite extremes of the social and religious life of Judaea.

Justified God.--Better, perhaps, acknowledged God as righteous. The word is commonly applied in this sense to man rather than to God; but it appears so used in the quotation in Romans 3:4 from the LXX. version of Psalm 51:4. Here it has a special significance in connection with the statement that follows in Luke 7:35, that "wisdom is justified of all her children."

Verse 29. - And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God. This is not, as many expositors have assumed, a statement of St. Luke's own as to the effect of John's preaching on varied classes of his hearers, but the words are still the words of Jesus; it is a continuation of his eulogy of the Baptist. He says here that the people, "the folk," listened gladly to him; they were persuaded in great numbers of the necessity of a changed life, and were in consequence baptized by him. The meaning of the term, "justified God," is that these, the common folk, by their actions and ready acceptance of the great reformer-preacher, thus publicly declared that they acknowledged the wisdom and goodness of God in this his work through the Baptist; but, as is stated in the next verse -

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
All
πᾶς (pas)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

people
λαὸς (laos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2992: Apparently a primary word; a people.

[who] heard [this],
ἀκούσας (akousas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.

even
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

tax collectors,
τελῶναι (telōnai)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5057: A publican, collector of taxes. From telos and oneomai; a tax-farmer, i.e. Collector of public revenue.

acknowledged God’s justice.
ἐδικαίωσαν (edikaiōsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1344: From dikaios; to render just or innocent.

[For] they had received the baptism
βαπτισθέντες (baptisthentes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 907: Lit: I dip, submerge, but specifically of ceremonial dipping; I baptize.

of John.
Ἰωάννου (Iōannou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2491: Of Hebrew origin; Joannes, the name of four Israelites.


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