'Tax Collector' in the Bible

And tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do?

And after these things he went forth and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And he said to him, Follow me.

And Levi made a great feast for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were relaxing with them.

And their scholars and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?

And all the people having heard, and the tax collectors who were immersed the immersion of John, justified God.

The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold the man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were approaching him to hear him.

Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector.

Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.

And behold, a man called by name, Zacchaeus. And he was a chief tax collector, and this man was rich.