29When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.


In Context

26 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

27 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

28 |For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.|

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

30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

31 |To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?

Luke 7:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:29And all the people that heard [him,] and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:29(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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:29And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:29And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29(And all the people who heard it, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:29And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.