Matthew 5:46
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
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Publicans
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Luke 19:2
And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
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τελώνης
telṓnēs · tel-o'-nace
16 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
a tax-farmer, i.e. collector of public revenue
Strong's KJV usage: :--publican.
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Strong's first: Matthew 5:46Strong's last: Luke 15:1
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architelṓnēs · ar-khee-tel-o'-nace
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a principle tax-gatherer
Strong's KJV usage: :--chief among the publicans.
Strong's first: Luke 19:2Strong's last: Luke 19:2
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For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
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And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
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And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
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Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
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For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
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publican
PUB'LICAN, noun [Latin publicanus, from publicus.]
1. A collector of toll or tribute. Among the Romans, a publican was a farmer of the taxes and public revenues, and the inferior officers of this class were deemed oppressive.
As Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matthew 9:10.
2. The keeper of a public house; an innkeeper.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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