Jesus and Zacchaeus

¹⁹He entered Jericho and was passing through it.²A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich.³He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.⁴So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.⁵When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’⁶So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him.⁷All who saw it began to grumble and said, ‘He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.’⁸Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’⁹Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.’

¹² He said also to the one who had invited him, ‘When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid.¹³But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.¹⁴And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.’