New Revised Standard Version
(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone had been listening to John. Even the tax collectors had obeyed God and had done what was right by letting John baptize them.

New American Bible
(All the people who listened, including the tax collectors, and who were baptized with the baptism of John, acknowledged the righteousness of God;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.

And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.

justified.

Luke 7:35 And wisdom is justified by all her children.

Judges 1:7 And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Psalm 51:4 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 3:4-6 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. . . .

Romans 10:3 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

Revelation 15:3 And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of ages.

Revelation 16:5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things.

being.

Luke 3:12 And the publicans also came to be baptized and said to him: Master, what shall we do?

Matthew 3:5,6 Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan: . . .

Matthew 21:31,32 Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you. . . .