²⁹ And when all the people heard Him, even the tax collectors ^[a]justified God, ^(A)having been baptized with the baptism of John.

¹² Then ^(A)tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”

^35 (A)But wisdom is justified by all her children.”

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying:

³ They sing ^(A)the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the ^(B)Lamb, saying:

³ For they being ignorant of ^(A)God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own ^(B)righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

^4 (A)Certainly not! Indeed, let ^(B)God be ^[a]true but ^(C)every man a liar. As it is written:

⁵ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? ^(E)(I speak as a man.) ⁶ Certainly not! For then ^(F)how will God judge the world?

³ And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”

So they said, ^(A)“Into John’s baptism.”

²⁵ This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being ^(A)fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, ^(B)though he knew only the baptism of John.