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He entered and was passing through Jericho.
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters Luke 19:1–10
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There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
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Verse 2. What sinner can despair when he sees the Saviour of mankind seeking to save him; when he beholds even a publican and a rich man, at the same time, who, as our Saviour informs us in another place, are so seldom truly converted, brought to the light of faith, and the grace of a true conversion! Saint Ambrose.—Zacheus (who as a farmer of the customs, not a collector, as some falsely imagine) immediately hearkened to the interior voice of the Almighty, calling him to repentance; he made no delay, and therefore deserved immediately not only to see, but to eat, drink, and converse with Jesus. S. Cyril.—Behold here the three steps of his conversion: 1. an ardent desire of seeing Jesus; 2. the honourable reception he gave him in his house; 3. the complete restitution of all ill-acquired property.
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He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.
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He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
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When 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.”
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He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
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When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
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8
Zacchaeus 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.”
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9
Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
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Verse 9. Zacheus is here styled a son of Abraham; that is his spiritual son, a partaker of the promises made to Abraham concerning the Messias: not that he was actually born of his seed, but because he imitated his faith; and as Abraham at the voice of God, left the land and house of his father; so Zacheus renounced his goods and possessions, by giving them to the poor. Ven. Bede.
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For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
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