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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Luke 7 contains 50 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.