“And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.”
Luke 7:29 (KJV)
Context Reading
27This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. 28For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. 29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. 30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. 31¶ And the Lord said,Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?