'Tax Collector' in the Bible

Even some tax collectors came to be baptized. They asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

After that, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax collector's desk. He told him, "Follow me!"

Later, Levi gave a large banquet at his home for Jesus. A large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.

The Pharisees and their scribes started complaining to Jesus' disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

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

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, "Look! He's a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

Now all the tax collectors and sinners kept coming to listen to Jesus.

"Two men went up to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, "O God, I thank you that I'm not like other people thieves, dishonest people, adulterers, or even this tax collector.

"But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, "O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!'

a man named Zacchaeus appeared. He was a leading tax collector, and a rich one at that!