Luke 7:29-30

Messengers from John the Baptist

²⁹ ( _i When all the people heard this, and _j the tax collectors too, they declared God just, _{1 j} having been baptized with _k the baptism of John, ³⁰ _l but the Pharisees and _m the lawyers _n rejected _o the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

1. Cross References
   Luke 20:6
   But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 3:12
   Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?
   Matthew 21:32
   For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
   
3. Cross References
   Luke 3:12
   Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?
   Matthew 21:32
   For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 18:25
   He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
   Acts 19:3
   And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism.
   
5. Cross References
   Matthew 21:25
   The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?" And they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?
   Matthew 21:32
   For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
   Matthew 23:13
   But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
   
6. Cross References
   Luke 10:25
   And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
   Luke 11:45 - 46
   One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.
   Luke 11:52
   Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.
   Luke 14:3
   And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?
   Matthew 22:35
   And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
   
7. Cross References
   Mark 7:9
   And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
   
8. Cross References
   Acts 2:23
   This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
   Acts 13:36
   For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption.