'Tax Collector' in the Bible
Then came also tax collectors to be baptized, and said unto him, Teacher, what shall we do?
And after these things he went forth, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office: and he said unto him, Follow me.
And Levi made himself a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of tax collectors and of others that sat down with them.
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?
And all the people that heard him, and the tax collectors, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!
Then drew near unto him all the tax collectors and sinners to hear him.
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the 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 as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief among the tax collectors, and he was rich.