Luke 7:29 (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus' words, acknowledged that God's way was right, because they had been baptized by John.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus' words, acknowledged that God's way was right, because they had been baptized by John.

English Standard Version
(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

New American Standard Bible
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God's justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God's way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John's baptism.

International Standard Version
By having been baptized with John's baptism, all the people who listened, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice.

American Standard Version
And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.

Darby Bible Translation
(And all the people who heard it, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

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,

Cross References

Matthew 5:46
For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? do not even the publicans the same?

Matthew 21:31
Whether of them two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.

Luke 3:12
Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said to him, Master, what shall we do?

Luke 7:28
For I say to 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.

Luke 7:35
But wisdom is justified of all her children.

Luke 20:6
But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

Acts 18:25
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

Acts 19:3
And he said to them, To what then were you baptized? And they said, To John's baptism.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:19-35 To his miracles in the kingdom of nature, Christ adds this in the kingdom of grace, To the poor the gospel is preached. It clearly pointed out the spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom, that the messenger he sent before him to prepare his way, did it by preaching repentance and reformation of heart and life. We have here the just blame of those who were not wrought upon by the ministry of John Baptist or of Jesus Christ himself. They made a jest of the methods God took to do them good. This is the ruin of multitudes; they are not serious in the concerns of their souls. Let us study to prove ourselves children of Wisdom, by attending the instructions of God's word, and adoring those mysteries and glad tidings which infidels and Pharisees deride and blaspheme.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29, 30. And all the people that heard—"on hearing (this)." These are the observations of the Evangelist, not of our Lord.

and the publicans—a striking clause.

justified God, being baptized, &c.—rather, "having been baptized." The meaning is, They acknowledged the divine wisdom of such a preparatory ministry as John's, in leading them to Him who now spake to them (see Lu 1:16, 17); whereas the Pharisees and lawyers, true to themselves in refusing the baptism of John, set at naught also the merciful design of God in the Saviour Himself, to their own destruction.