Sentences with phrase «hated publicans»
The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.
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He mixed socially both with devout Pharisees (Luke 7:36; 14:1) and with the «publicans» (Mark 2:14 - 17; Luke 19:1 - 10) who collected taxes for the hated foreign government.
Jesus calls a tax collector, a hated and despised publican who raises revenue for the Roman oppressors, and causes him to give up his job in order to be a disciple (Matt.
As crowds gathered outside O'Connell's Pub in Salthill to catch a glimpse of the singer, Saoirse was holed up in a makeshift green room in publican Frank O'Connor's house - alongside Love / Hate stars Peter Coonan and Laurance Kinlan.