Luke 19:1-10 NAS
He entered
Jericho and was
passing through. And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus;
he was a chief tax collector and he was rich. Zaccheus was trying to
see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small
in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree
in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way. When
Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him,
"Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your
house." And
he hurried and came down and received Him gladly. When they saw it,
they all began to grumble, saying, "He has gone to be the guest of a
man who is a sinner." Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord,
"Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if
I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as
much." And Jesus said to him, "Today
salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of
Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which
was lost."
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