Luke 19:4-12

⁴So he ran further ahead along the road that Jesus was walking on. He climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see Jesus.

⁵When Jesus got there, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because God wants me to go with you(sg) to your house and stay there tonight”!

⁶So he came down quickly. He took Jesus to his house and welcomed him joyfully.

⁷The people who saw Jesus go there grumbled saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner!”

⁸Then Zacchaeus stood up while they were eating and said to the Lord Jesus, “Lord, I want you (sg) to know that I am going to give half of what I own to poor people. And as for the people whom I have cheated, I will pay them back four times the amount I have gotten from them by cheating.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Today God has forgiven PRS you and the other people in MTY this house, because you (sg) also have shown that you have trusted in God as your ancestor Abraham did.

¹⁰Remember this: I, the one who came from heaven, came to seek and save people like you(sg) who have gone astray from God, just like a shepherd who searches for his lost sheep.”

¹¹They were coming near to Jerusalem, and the people who were going with Jesus who heard him say these things thought that as soon as he got to Jerusalem he would become their king.

¹²So he told them this parable: “A prince prepared to go to a distant country in order that the Emperor would make him a king. He intended to return later.