probably the least favorite person on your list are Tax Collectors they hated taxes then similar to the way that we despise them now don't think there's anything new Under the Sun with reference to taxes and paying them that it's biblical principally we see in Romans 13 though at times we may disagree with the way that that money is used or misused or abused and the reasons why the tax collectors specifically were looked down upon in this iety there are four of them Knox chamblin says they collaborated with Gentiles they handled currency with Pagan inscriptions and iconography they took money from fellow Jews to give to the magistrate who oppressed them and they were often greedy and corrupt that's one of the things that Mark these particular individuals