'Tax gatherers' in the Bible
Taxgatherers also came to get baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what are we to do?"
Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them.
But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"
(On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John;
the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!'
Now the tax gatherers and sinners were all approaching him to listen to him,
there was a man called Zacchaeus, the head of the taxgatherers, a wealthy man,