τελώνης, -ου, ὁ (τέλος, ὠνέομαι) 1. a farmer of taxes (Let. publicanus). 2. A subordinate of the former, who collected taxes or tolls in a particular district, a tax-gatherer (EV, publican): Mat.5:46 10:3, Luk.3:12 5:27, 29 7:29 18:10-11, 13; pl., τ. κ. ἁμαρτωλοί, Mat.9:10-11 11:19, Mrk.2:15-16, Luk.5:30 7:34 15:1; τ. κ. πόρναι, Mat.21:31-32; ὁ ἐθνικὸς κ. ὁ τ., Mat.18:17 (cf. DB, iv, 172; ext., 394 f.; MM, xxiv).† (AS)
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G5057 — τελώνης
telōnēs · tax collector · Greek
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Matthew 5:46 · τελῶναιFor if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?Matthew 9:10 · τελῶναιIt happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.Matthew 9:11 · τελωνῶνWhen the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”Matthew 10:3 · τελώνης,Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;Matthew 11:19 · τελωνῶνThe Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”Matthew 18:17 · τελώνης.¶If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.Matthew 21:31 · τελῶναιWhich of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.Matthew 21:32 · τελῶναιFor John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.Mark 2:15 · τελῶναιIt happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.Mark 2:16 · τελωνῶν · τελωνῶνThe scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”Luke 3:12 · τελῶναιTax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”Luke 5:27 · τελώνηνAfter these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”Luke 5:29 · τελωνῶνLevi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.Luke 5:30 · τελωνῶνTheir scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”Luke 7:29 · τελῶναιWhen all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.Luke 7:34 · τελωνῶνThe Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’Luke 15:1 · τελῶναιNow all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.Luke 18:10 · τελώνης.“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.Luke 18:11 · τελώνης.The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.Luke 18:13 · τελώνηςBut the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’