Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

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

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

"Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.