Luke 7:29

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

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WEBBE

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptised with John’s baptism.

BSB

All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

KJV

And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

ASV

And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

BBE

(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

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καὶ kai And G2532 πᾶς pas all G3956 ὁ ho the G3588 λαὸς laos people G2992 ἀκούσας akousas having heard G191 καὶ kai even G2532 οἱ hoi the G3588 τελῶναι telōnai tax collectors G5057 ἐδικαίωσαν edikaiōsan declared as righteous G1344 τὸν ton (the) G3588 θεὸν theon God G2316 βαπτισθέντες baptisthentes having been baptized [with] G907 τὸ to the G3588 βάπτισμα baptisma baptism G908 Ἰωάννου Iōannou of John G2491

The early church

Because also they believed, they justified God, for He appeared just to them in all that He did.
Eusebius of Caesarea · d. 339Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
God is justified by baptism, wherein men justify themselves confessing their sins. For he that sins and confesses his sin unto God, justifies God, submitting himself to Him who overcometh, and hoping for grace from Him; God therefore is justified by baptism, in which there is confession and pardon of sin.
Ambrose of Milan · d. 397Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(Hom. 37. in Matt.) Having declared the praises of John, he next exposes the great fault of the Pharisees and lawyers, who would not after the publicans receive the baptism of John. Hence it is said, And all the people that heard him, and the Publicans, justified God.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 19–35

To his miracles in the kingdom of nature, Christ adds this in the kingdom of grace, To the poor the gospel is preached. It clearly pointed out the spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom, that the messenger he sent before him to prepare his way, did it by preaching repentance and reformation of heart and life. We have here the just blame of those who were not wrought upon by the ministry of John Baptist or of Jesus Christ himself. They made a jest of the methods God took to do them good. This is the ruin of multitudes; they are not serious in the concerns of their souls. Let us study to prove ourselves children of Wisdom, by attending the instructions of God's word, and adoring those mysteries and glad tidings which infidels and Pharisees deride and blaspheme.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.