“When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.”
Luke 7:29 (WEB)
Context Reading
27This 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 God’s Kingdom is greater than he.” 29When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism. 30But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves. 31“To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?