Zacchaeus the Tax Collector

19 Jesus entered Jericho^(A) and was passing through. ² A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. ³ He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. ⁴ So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig^(B) tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.^(C)

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.^{(A) 10} For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”^(B)