G5057 τελώνης
Strong's Greek Concordance · 22 KJV occurrences
τελώνης
telṓnēs
Definition
a tax-farmer, i.e. collector of public revenue
KJV Renderings
publican
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 22)
- Matthew 5:46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
- Matthew 9:10¶ And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
- Matthew 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
- Matthew 21:32For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
- Mark 2:16And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
- Luke 5:27¶ And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
- Luke 7:29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
- Luke 18:10Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.