Luke 7:29 KJV

Luke · chapter 7 · verse 29

And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.Luke 7:29 · King James Version

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27This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

28For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

31And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

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Commentary

All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Mt. 11:2-19. I. We have here the message John Baptist sent to Christ, and the return he made to it. Observe, 1.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-35

Key words (Strong's)

publicanstelōnēsa renter or farmer of taxes, among the Romans, usually a man of equestrian rank, a tax…G5057 →
justifieddikaioōto render righteous or such he ought to be, to show, exhibit, evince, one to be…G1344 →
baptizedbaptizōto dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge , to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to…G907 →
baptismbaptismaimmersion, submersion, of calamities and afflictions with which one is quite overwhelmed…G908 →
peoplelaosa people, people group, tribe, nation, all those who are of the same stock and language…G2992 →
heardakouōto be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf, to hear, to attend to, consider what…G191 →

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Luke 7:29 KJV

Luke 7:29 in context

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