12 Even tax collectors came to be baptized,+ and they said to him: “Teacher, what should we do?”

29 (When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be righteous, for they had been baptized with the baptism of John.+ 30 But the Pharisees and those versed in the Law disregarded the counsel* of God to them,+ since they had not been baptized by him.)