Sentences with phrase «worked as a tax collector»

Instead, he worked as a tax collector for the Catholic Church and as a village medic.

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He is pictured as himself a story - teller in whose stories there is equally vivid harmonizing of contrasts: a father embracing a prodigal son, a tax collector praying for forgiveness; a heretic showing a compassion far surpassing that of the orthodox, an employer rewarding laggards with the same wages as those who have worked a full day.

The Americans for the Arts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.»