Bible Verses About Publicans: Repent under the preaching of John the Baptist

For Yochanan came to you showing the path to righteousness, and you wouldn't trust him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes trusted him; but you, even after you saw this, didn't change your minds later and trust him.

Tax-collectors also came to be immersed; and they asked him, "Rabbi, what should we do?"

All the people who heard him, even the tax-collectors, by undergoing Yochanan's immersion acknowledged that God was right;