( 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.

众百姓和税吏既受过约翰的洗，听见这话，就以神为义；

众百姓和税吏已受过约翰的洗，听见这话，就以上帝为义；

众百姓和税吏已受过约翰的洗，听见这话，就以神为义；

众百姓和税吏听了这番话，都承认上帝是公义的，因为他们接受了约翰的洗礼。

众人和税吏受过约翰的洗礼，听见这话，就称神为义。

所有已经受过约翰洗礼的民众和税吏，听了这话，都承认神是义的；

眾百姓和稅吏既受過約翰的洗，聽見這話，就以神為義；

眾百姓和稅吏已受過約翰的洗，聽見這話，就以上帝為義；

眾百姓和稅吏已受過約翰的洗，聽見這話，就以神為義；

眾百姓和稅吏聽了這番話，都承認上帝是公義的，因為他們接受了約翰的洗禮。

眾人和稅吏受過約翰的洗禮，聽見這話，就稱神為義。

眾民和收稅人因受過約翰的洗、聽見了這話、就承認上帝為義。

所有已經受過約翰洗禮的民眾和稅吏，聽了這話，都承認神是義的；

庶民與稅吏、既受約翰之洗、聞之遂義上帝、

庶民與稅吏、素受洗於約翰、聞此言而稱上帝之義、

庶民及稅吏、聽而受洗於約翰、且稱頌天主之義、

眾與稅吏、咸受洗於如望、聞其言莫不稱頌天主至德；

All the people who heard Jesus’ words agreed that God’s way was right. Even the tax collectors agreed. These people had all been baptized by John.

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

When they heard this, all the people— even the tax collectors— agreed that God’s way was right, for they had been baptized by John.

( 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.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

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

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

( 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.

And all the people that heard[ him], and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

( Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

Even tax collectors came to be baptized.“ Teacher,” they asked,“ what should we do?”

But wisdom is proved right by all her children.”

and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:“ Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the nations.

Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written:“ So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us?( I am using a human argument.)Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

So Paul asked,“ Then what baptism did you receive?”“ John’s baptism,” they replied.

“ Which of the two did what his father wanted?”“ The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them,“ Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:“ You are just in these judgments, O Holy One, you who are and who were;

Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan.Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

Then Adoni-Bezek said,“ Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.