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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 7:29 Catholic Bible: 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. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/luke/7-29.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/luke/7-29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/luke/7-29.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/1.htm">Luke</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/7-28.htm" title="Luke 7:28">◄</a> Luke 7:29 <a href="../luke/7-30.htm" title="Luke 7:30">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/luke/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/luke/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />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. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/luke/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />(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.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/luke/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Everyone had been listening to John. Even the tax collectors had obeyed God and had done what was right by letting John baptize them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/luke/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />(All the people who listened, including the tax collectors, and who were baptized with the baptism of John, acknowledged the righteousness of God;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/luke/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.</p><p class="hdg">justified.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/7-35.htm">Luke 7:35</a> And wisdom is justified by all her children.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/1-7.htm">Judges 1:7</a> And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/51-4.htm">Psalm 51:4</a> To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/3-4.htm">Romans 3:4-6</a> But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/10-3.htm">Romans 10:3</a> For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/15-3.htm">Revelation 15:3</a> And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of ages.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/16-5.htm">Revelation 16:5</a> And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things.</p><p class="hdg">being.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/3-12.htm">Luke 3:12</a> And the publicans also came to be baptized and said to him: Master, what shall we do?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/3-5.htm">Matthew 3:5,6</a> Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/21-31.htm">Matthew 21:31,32</a> Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/luke/7.htm">Jesus Testifies about John</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">28</span>For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of men, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser in the kingdom of God is greater than he. <span class="reftext">29</span><span class="highl">And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.</span> <span class="reftext">30</span>But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/5-46.htm">Matthew 5:46</a></span><br />For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/21-31.htm">Matthew 21:31</a></span><br />Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/21-32.htm">Matthew 21:32</a></span><br />For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/3-12.htm">Luke 3:12</a></span><br />And the publicans also came to be baptized and said to him: Master, what shall we do?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/7-28.htm">Luke 7:28</a></span><br />For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of men, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser in the kingdom of God is greater than he.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/7-35.htm">Luke 7:35</a></span><br />And wisdom is justified by all her children.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/20-6.htm">Luke 20:6</a></span><br />But if we say, of men: the whole people will stone us. For they are persuaded that John was a prophet.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/18-25.htm">Acts 18:25</a></span><br />This man was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being fervent in spirit, spoke and taught diligently the things that are of Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/19-3.htm">Acts 19:3</a></span><br />And he said: In what then were you baptized? Who said: In John's baptism.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/matthew/5-19.htm">Acknowledged</a> <a href="/luke/3-12.htm">Baptised</a> <a href="/luke/3-21.htm">Baptism</a> <a href="/luke/3-22.htm">Baptized</a> <a href="/luke/7-28.htm">Born</a> <a href="/luke/5-30.htm">Collectors</a> <a href="/luke/3-19.htm">Declared</a> <a href="/luke/5-2.htm">God's</a> <a href="/luke/7-28.htm">Greater</a> <a href="/luke/7-23.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/luke/7-24.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/luke/7-28.htm">John</a> <a href="/luke/7-25.htm">John's</a> <a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Justice</a> <a href="/matthew/12-37.htm">Justified</a> <a href="/luke/7-28.htm">Kingdom</a> <a href="/daniel/2-39.htm">Lower</a> <a href="/luke/5-30.htm">Publicans</a> <a href="/matthew/22-16.htm">Rank</a> <a href="/luke/7-5.htm">Right</a> <a href="/luke/5-30.htm">Tax</a> <a href="/luke/5-29.htm">Tax-Farmers</a> <a href="/luke/5-31.htm">Tax-Gatherers</a> <a href="/luke/7-28.htm">Way</a> <a href="/luke/7-28.htm">Women</a> <a href="/luke/7-15.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/luke/12-8.htm">Acknowledged</a> <a href="/acts/1-5.htm">Baptised</a> <a href="/luke/12-50.htm">Baptism</a> <a href="/luke/7-30.htm">Baptized</a> <a href="/john/1-13.htm">Born</a> <a href="/luke/7-34.htm">Collectors</a> <a href="/luke/8-47.htm">Declared</a> <a href="/luke/7-30.htm">God's</a> <a href="/luke/7-42.htm">Greater</a> <a href="/luke/8-12.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/luke/7-36.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/luke/7-30.htm">John</a> <a href="/luke/7-30.htm">John's</a> <a href="/luke/11-42.htm">Justice</a> <a href="/luke/7-35.htm">Justified</a> <a href="/luke/8-1.htm">Kingdom</a> <a href="/acts/27-30.htm">Lower</a> <a href="/luke/7-34.htm">Publicans</a> <a href="/luke/19-12.htm">Rank</a> <a href="/luke/7-35.htm">Right</a> <a href="/luke/7-34.htm">Tax</a> <a href="/luke/7-34.htm">Tax-Farmers</a> <a href="/luke/7-30.htm">Tax-Gatherers</a> <a href="/luke/8-5.htm">Way</a> <a href="/luke/8-2.htm">Women</a> <a href="/luke/8-8.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/luke/7-29.htm">Luke 7:29 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: All acknowledged all and baptism baptized because been by collectors even God's had having heard Jesus John justice of people right tax that the they this was way when with words<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/7-29.htm">NT Gospels: Luke 7:29 When all the people and the tax (Luke Lu Lk) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../luke/7-28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Luke 7:28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Luke 7:28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../luke/7-30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Luke 7:30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Luke 7:30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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