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Tax Collector
[Bible]Tax collectors (publicans) appear in the New Testament Gospels as people who collected taxes and tolls under Roman rule. Jewish society regarded them as sinners, and the Gospels record several occasions on which Jesus associated with them.
Luke 19:8–9
[Bible Verses]In this passage, Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector of Jericho, declares that he will give half of his goods to the poor and restore fourfold anything he has taken by false accusation, and Jesus responds that salvation has come to his house. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of the fruit of repentance, salvation, and wealth.
Matthew 9:13
[Bible Verses]In this verse Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6 to the Pharisees, declaring that God desires mercy rather than sacrifice and that he has come to call sinners. It is frequently cited in discussions of grace and evangelism and of the relationship between outward form and mercy.
Parable of the Prodigal Son
[Bible]The Parable of the Prodigal Son is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 15:11-32. It tells of a father who welcomes home his younger son after the son has squandered his share of the estate. It is also called the "Returning Prodigal."
Drachma
[Bible]The drachma was an ancient Greek silver coin and monetary unit. In the New Testament it appears in the parable of the lost coin in Luke 15, and it is generally understood to have been worth about a laborer's daily wage.
Parable of the Lost Sheep
[Bible]The Parable of the Lost Sheep is a parable of Jesus in which a shepherd with a hundred sheep goes in search of the one that has gone astray and rejoices when he finds it. It appears in Luke 15 and Matthew 18.
Pharisees
[Bible]The Pharisees were a group within Judaism in the New Testament era. They strictly observed the Law of Moses and "the tradition of the elders," and in the Gospels they appear chiefly as opponents who dispute with Jesus.
Luke 15
[Bible]Luke 15 is the chapter in which Jesus answers the complaint of the Pharisees and scribes that he eats with sinners by telling three parables: the lost sheep, the lost coin (drachma), and the lost son (the prodigal son).
Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
[Bible]The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 18:9–14. It tells how a tax collector who pleaded for mercy, rather than a Pharisee who boasted of his own righteousness, went home justified. The parable teaches about humility and the proper attitude in prayer.
Zacchaeus
[People]Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector of Jericho who appears in Luke 19. He climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see Jesus, was called by Jesus, and welcomed him into his home. He then declared that he would give half of his goods to the poor and repay fourfold anything he had taken by fraud.
Matthew
[People]Matthew was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ, a tax collector who was called to become a disciple. The Gospels of Mark and Luke call the same figure Levi, and he is traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of Matthew.
Matthew 9
[Bible]Matthew 9 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a paralytic, calls Matthew the tax collector, answers a question about fasting, heals several sick people, and raises a dead girl, and then tells his disciples to pray for laborers for the harvest.
Luke 19
[Bible]Luke 19 contains the account of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector who welcomed Jesus in Jericho, the parable of the minas, the entry into Jerusalem, Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, and the cleansing of the temple.
Luke 18
[Bible]Luke 18 contains two parables about prayer (the unjust judge, and the Pharisee and the tax collector), Jesus' blessing of little children, his conversation with a rich ruler, a prediction of his passion, and the healing of a blind man near Jericho.
Alphaeus
[People]Alphaeus is a New Testament figure named only as the father of James, one of the twelve disciples, and as the father of Levi the tax collector. Nothing he did is recorded.
Luke 19:10
[Bible Verses]Luke 19:10 records the words Jesus spoke after staying at the house of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, in Jericho, declaring that he came "to seek and to save that which was lost." The verse is regarded as a one-line summary of the theme of the Gospel of Luke and is frequently cited as a basis for evangelism and missions.
Luke 5
[Bible]Luke 5 is the chapter in which Jesus calls Simon Peter, James, and John as disciples by the lake of Gennesaret, heals a leper and a paralytic, calls Levi the tax collector, and then answers a question about fasting.
Mark 2
[Bible]The second chapter of the Gospel of Mark, in which Jesus forgives and heals a paralytic in Capernaum, calls Levi the tax collector, and disputes with the scribes and Pharisees over fasting and the Sabbath.
Temple Tax
[Bible]The temple tax was a payment made by adult Israelite men for the upkeep of the sanctuary (the tabernacle and later the temple) and its worship. It originated in the half-shekel regulation of Exodus and appears in the New Testament in Matthew 17.
Taxes
[Bible]Taxes are money or goods collected from the people by a state or by the temple. The Bible mentions taxes under Egypt, the Israelite monarchy, Persia, and Rome, as well as the temple tax. The subject is best known through the saying "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."