Luke 7:29
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
In context
27 This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
28 I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
29 All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
31 “To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
Luke 7:29 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
- KJV King James Version
- And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
- WEB World English Bible
- When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
- DBY Darby Translation
- (And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;
- WBS Webster Bible
- And all the people that heard him , and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.