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Nave's Topical Bible

→ (Tax collectors for the Romans)

→ Disreputable Mt 5:46,47; 9:11; 11:19; 18:17; 21:31; Lu 18:11

→ Change their ways because of the preaching of John the Baptist Mt 21:32; Lu 3:12; 7:29

→ Matthew, the tax collector of Capernaum, becomes an apostle Mt 9:9; 10:3; Mr 2:14; Lu 5:27

→ Parable concerning Lu 18:9-14

→ Zacchaeus, chief among, receives Jesus into his house Lu 19:2-10