'Tax gatherers' in the Bible

And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, 'Teacher, what shall we do?'

And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),

and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, 'Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'

And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,