'Tax Collector' in the Bible

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"

After this he went out, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me."

Then Levi made him a great feast in his house; and there were a great number of tax collectors and others sitting at table with them.

And the Pharisees and their scribes complained against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

(And when they heard him, all the people, even the tax collectors, justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

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

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

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other menextortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'

Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.