Luke 7:29

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Luke 3:12 : 12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
  • Luke 7:35 : 35 Wisdom is justified by all her children."
  • Acts 18:25 : 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
  • Acts 19:3 : 3 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."
  • Rom 3:4-6 : 4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment." 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • Rev 15:3 : 3 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
  • Rev 16:5 : 5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
  • Judg 1:7 : 7 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
  • Matt 3:5-6 : 5 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him. 6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
  • Matt 21:31-32 : 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

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  • Mark 1:4-5
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    4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

    5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

  • John 3:25-26
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    25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.

    26 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."

  • Matt 3:5-7
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    76%

    5 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

    6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

    7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

  • Luke 7:30
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    30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

  • Matt 21:32
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    32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

  • Luke 3:3
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    3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

  • Luke 3:15-16
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    15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

    16 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

  • Luke 3:12
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    12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"

  • Mark 11:30
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    30 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

  • Acts 13:24
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    24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

  • Mark 1:7-10
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    74%

    7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

    8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

    9 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

    10 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

  • Luke 7:18
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    18 The disciples of John told him about all these things.

  • Matt 3:13-15
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    73%

    13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

    14 But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"

    15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.

  • Luke 20:4
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    4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"

  • Luke 7:27-28
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    27 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

    28 "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."

  • John 3:22
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    22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

  • Luke 3:21
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    21 Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

  • Acts 19:3-4
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    3 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

    4 Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus."

  • John 1:25-26
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    25 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

    26 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.

  • John 1:28
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    28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

  • Matt 3:1
    72%

    1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

  • Matt 21:25
    71%

    25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

  • John 1:31
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    31 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

  • John 4:1-2
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    1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

    2 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),

  • Luke 15:1
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    1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

  • John 1:33
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    33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

  • Matt 3:3
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    3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."

  • Mark 11:32
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    32 If we should say, 'From men'"--they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

  • Luke 3:6-7
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    6 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"

    7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

  • John 10:41
    69%

    41 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."

  • Acts 10:37
    69%

    37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

  • Luke 3:10
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    10 The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"

  • Luke 7:24
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    24 When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

  • Luke 7:22
    69%

    22 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

  • Matt 3:11
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    11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.