Bible Dictionary: Tax Collectors

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Greek

5057. telones -- tax collector
... Word Origin from telos and oneomai Definition a farmer of taxes, ie a tax collector
NASB Word Usage collector (1), tax collector (5), tax collectors (15). ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Luke 15:1-32
Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
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Luke 7:34
The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of publicans and sinners!
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Matthew 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
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Matthew 17:24-27
And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your master pay tribute?
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Library

The Christian Conception of Life Has Already Arisen in Our Society ...
... Governors, police officials, tax collectors often have compassion on the people
and try to find pretexts for not collecting the tax from them. ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter xi the christian conception.htm

Letter xxi. To Leontius the Sophist.
... for the famous "four-times-as-much." [1914] For even the Pythagoreans were not so
fond of their Tetractys, [1915] as these modern tax-collectors of their "four ...
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The Life of Salvian
... For the downtrodden poor his sympathy is great, but for clerks, soldiers and tax
collectors, and for the curials who formed the miserable remnant of the local ...
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The Stater in the Fish. (Matt. , xvii. , 27. )
... immediately after the feeding of the 5000; as the multitude then wished to proclaim
Jesus as Messiah, the collectors might well doubt of his paying the tax. ...
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The Government of India.
... By the perpetual settlement of Bengal, the tax-collectors were at once raised to
the position of landholders, of which they have often taken undue advantage. ...
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Travelling in Palestine --Roads, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House ...
... it was, had probably not so much to do with the bitter hatred of the Rabbinists
towards the class of tax-farmers (Moches) and tax-collectors (Gabbai), both of ...
/.../sketches of jewish social life/chapter 4 travelling in palestineroads.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... The scribes and tax-collectors were accustomed to exact contributions for the public
service from the ships, whether laden or not, of those who were in a small ...
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Jesus Pays the Tribute Money.
... xxiv.5, 6). This tax was collected annually. ... The collectors of it may have thought
that Jesus regarded its payment as voluntary, or they may have thought that ...
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The Fifth Book
... To such men the enemy are kinder than the tax collectors. This is proved by their
actions, for they flee to the enemy to avoid the oppression of the levies. ...
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The Coin in the Fish's Mouth
... The question of the collectors, 'Doth not your Master pay tribute?' does not ... Pharisaical
righteousness, would be likely to recognise the obligation of the tax. ...
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Subtopics

Tax: Land Mortgaged For

Tax: Paid in Grain

Tax: Paid in Provisions

Tax: Personal

Tax: Poll

Tax: Priests Exempted From