However, the general hostility toward tax collectors that emerges from the Gospel accounts was doubtless augmented by the real dishonesty and greed of men who grew rich by extorting all they could from the common people. ​ — Luke 3: 13; 19: 2, 8.
Ent evangeeliumides kajastuv üleüldine vaenulikkus maksukogujate vastu oli kahtlemata kasvanud välja nende lihtrahvalt viimase väljapigistamisest rikastuvate meeste ebaaususest ja saamahimust.