Jesus Visits Zacchaeus

19 He entered Jericho and was passing through. ² There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. ³ He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man. ⁴ So running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus, since he was about to pass that way. ⁵ When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.”

⁶ So he quickly came down and welcomed him joyfully. ⁷ All who saw it began to complain,^(A) “He’s gone to stay with a sinful man.”

⁸ But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor,^(B) Lord. And if I have extorted^(C) anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much.”^(D)

⁹ “Today salvation^(E) has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.^{(F) 10} For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”^(G)

6 The Lord spoke to Moses: ² “When someone sins and offends the Lord by deceiving^(A) his neighbor in regard to a deposit,^(B) a security,^[a] or a robbery;^(C) or defrauds^(D) his neighbor; ³ or finds something lost and lies about it;^(E) or swears falsely^(F) about any of the sinful things a person may do— ⁴ once he has sinned^(G) and acknowledged his guilt^(H)—he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found, ⁵ or anything else about which he swore falsely. He will make full restitution for it and add a fifth of its value to it.^(I) He is to pay it to its owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.^{(J) 6} Then he is to bring his guilt offering^(K) to the Lord: an unblemished^(L) ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest. ⁷ In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”^(M)

God and Possessions

¹⁹ “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures^[a] on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.^{(A) 20} But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,^(B) where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

²² “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!^(C)

²⁴ “No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. ^(D)

⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for he himself has said, I will never leave you or abandon you.^[a](A)

⁷ You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons.^(A)