Difference between revisions of "Publican"

<div> '''1: '''''Τελώνης''''' ''' (Strong'S #5057 — Noun Masculine — telones — tel-o'-nace ) </div> <p> primarily denoted "a farmer of the tax" (from telos, "toll, custom, tax"), then, as in the NT, a subsequent subordinate of such, who collected taxes in some district, "a tax gatherer;" such were naturally hated intensely by the people; they are classed with "sinners," &nbsp;Matthew 9:10,11; &nbsp;11:9; &nbsp;Mark 2:15,16; &nbsp;Luke 5:30; &nbsp;7:34; &nbsp;15:1; with harlots, &nbsp;Matthew 21:31,32; with "the Gentile," &nbsp;Matthew 18:17; some mss. have it in &nbsp;Matthew 5:47 , the best have ethnikoi, "Gentiles." See also &nbsp;Matthew 5:46; &nbsp;10:3; &nbsp;Luke 3;12; &nbsp;5:27,29; &nbsp;7:29; &nbsp;18:10,11,13 . </p> [[Chief]]