Luke Chapter 7 verse 29 Holy Bible
And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
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(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.
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(And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;
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And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
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When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.
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And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God. This is not, as many expositors have assumed, a statement of St. Luke's own as to the effect of John's preaching on varied classes of his hearers, but the words are still the words of Jesus; it is a continuation of his eulogy of the Baptist. He says here that the people, "the folk," listened gladly to him; they were persuaded in great numbers of the necessity of a changed life, and were in consequence baptized by him. The meaning of the term, "justified God," is that these, the common folk, by their actions and ready acceptance of the great reformer-preacher, thus publicly declared that they acknowledged the wisdom and goodness of God in this his work through the Baptist; but, as is stated in the next verse -
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(29) And all the people that heard him . . .--Here the reports begin to vary, St. Luke omitting what we find in St. Matthew as to "the kingdom of heaven suffering violence;" and St. Luke interposing a statement, probably intended for his Gentile readers, as to the effect produced by the preaching of the Baptist on the two classes who stood at opposite extremes of the social and religious life of Judaea.Justified God.--Better, perhaps, acknowledged God as righteous. The word is commonly applied in this sense to man rather than to God; but it appears so used in the quotation in Romans 3:4 from the LXX. version of Psalm 51:4. Here it has a special significance in connection with the statement that follows in Luke 7:35, that "wisdom is justified of all her children."