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Matthew 5:46

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5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors 1  do the same, don’t they?

1 sn The tax collectors would bid to collect taxes for the Roman government and then add a surcharge, which they kept. Since tax collectors worked for Rome, they were viewed as traitors to their own people and were not well liked.



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