And then Luke inserts John’s specific instructions to those who ask, “What should we do?” The content of those instructions jars against the rest of John’s speech. In the context of coming judgment and the day of God imagined as disaster, Luke has John say, “Let anyone with two coats share with the one who has none. Likewise, those who have food.” When tax collectors come to be baptized (!), John says, “Collect no more than the assigned amount.” Even soldiers ask (notice that they are not being baptized), and John replies, “Take no money by extortion and be satisfied with your wages.” These are not words that bespeak the overthrow of the current structure, but rather, living inside it.