PUBLICANS

(Tax collectors for the Romans)

Disreputable

Mt 5:46,47; 9:11; 11:19; 18:17; 21:31; Lu 18:11

Change their ways because of the preaching of John the Baptist

Mt 21:32; Lu 3:12; 7:29

Matthew, the tax collector of Capernaum, becomes an apostle

Mt 9:9; 10:3; Mr 2:14; Lu 5:27

Parable concerning

Lu 18:9-14

Zacchaeus, chief among, receives Jesus into his house

Lu 19:2-10