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 · τελῶναι‘For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?Matthew 9:10 · τελῶναιAnd it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples,Matthew 9:11 · τελωνῶνand the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, ‘Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?’Matthew 10:3 · τελώνης,Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax-gatherer; James of Alpheus, and Lebbeus who was surnamed Thaddeus;Matthew 11:19 · τελωνῶνthe Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.’Matthew 18:17 · τελώνης.¶And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.Matthew 21:31 · τελῶναιwhich of the two did the will of the father?’ They say to him, ‘The first.’ Jesus saith to them, ‘Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,Matthew 21:32 · τελῶναιfor John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last—to believe him.Mark 2:15 · τελῶναιAnd it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners were reclining (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.Mark 2:16 · τελωνῶν · τελωνῶνAnd the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, ‘Why—that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?’Luke 3:12 · τελῶναιAnd there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, ‘Teacher, what shall we do?’Luke 5:27 · τελώνηνAnd after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, ‘Be following me;’Luke 5:29 · τελωνῶνAnd Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),Luke 5:30 · τελωνῶνand the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, ‘Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?’Luke 7:29 · τελῶναιAnd all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,Luke 7:34 · τελωνῶνthe Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;Luke 15:1 · τελῶναιAnd all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,Luke 18:10 · τελώνης.‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;Luke 18:11 · τελώνης.the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;Luke 18:13 · τελώνης‘And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me—the sinner!