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.
تخبرنا الاناجيل ان سمعان بطرس كان له شركاء في مصلحة صيد السمك .‏