Te Pipiwharauroa 93
No. 93
1905/12
[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 93, Gisborne, December 1905
PUBLICANS
The person most reviled by the Jews was the publican. He was a person cut off from his people – an outcast. The publican was a Jew who had agreed to collect from the Jews the taxes demanded by the Roman Government. Therefore they hoped that the Messiah would come to overthrow the power of Rome. They mistakenly thought that the Kingdom of Christ would be of this world.
