Luke 19:4-12

⁴So he ran on ahead of the people and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was about to pass that way.

⁵When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.”

⁶So he hurried and came down and welcomed him joyfully.

⁷When everyone saw this, they all complained, saying, “He has gone in to visit a man who is a sinner.”

⁸Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I will restore four times the amount.”

⁹Jesus 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 and to save the people who are lost.”

¹¹As they heard these things, he continued speaking and told a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to appear immediately.

¹²He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then to return.