Mat 5:46, 11:19, 21:31-32, Luk 15:1, 18:11, 19:2-3 | ESV | STEP | For if you love those who love you , what reward do you have ? Do not even the tax collectors do the same ?

l[See ver. 29 above]

Matthew 5:46

46 ^aFor if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 11:19

19 The Son of Man came ^beating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, ^ca friend of ^dtax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.” ^{▼▼Some manuscripts children (compare Luke 7:35)}

Matthew 21:31-32

31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, ^fthe tax collectors and ^gthe prostitutes go into ^hthe kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you ⁱin the way of righteousness, and ^jyou did not believe him, but ^kthe tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward ^lchange your minds and believe him.

Luke 15:1

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

1 Now ^mthe tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.

Luke 18:11

11 The Pharisee, ⁿstanding by himself, prayed ^{▼▼Or standing, prayed to himself} ^pthus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 19:2-3

2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 And ^qhe was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.