Luke 19:1–9
1He entered and was passing through Jericho.↗
2There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.↗
3He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.↗
4He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.↗
5When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him,“Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”↗
6He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.↗
7When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”↗
8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”↗
9Jesus said to him,“Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.↗
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