Luke 19:4-12

⁴And running on ahead he climbed up into a sycamore tree, in order to see Him, since He was about to pass by there.

⁵And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because today I must stay at your house.”

⁶So he came down quickly, and received Him joyfully.

⁷But when they saw it, they all started complaining, saying, “He has entered to lodge with a sinful man!”

⁸Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Indeed, Lord, I herewith give half of my goods to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I restore fourfold.”

⁹So Jesus said about him, “Today salvation has happened in this house, in that he also is a son of Abraham;

¹⁰because the Son of the Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

¹¹Now as they heard these things, He continued with a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they were supposing that the Kingdom of God was on the verge of being revealed.

¹²So He said: “A certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.