Luke 19:5-9

⁵When Jesus came to that tree he looked up and saw Zacchaeus, and said to him, “Hey, Zacchaeus. You come down right now, and hurry. I want to go and stay at your house today.”

⁶Then Zacchaeus was very happy, and he came down quickly, and he took Jesus to his house.

⁷But when the other people saw this they got upset with Jesus. They said, “Look. He goes and stays with bad people. He shouldn’t do that.”

⁸But later, at his house, Zacchaeus stood up and said to Jesus, “Look, Sir, this is what I am going to do now. I am going to split up all the things I own into 2 heaps, and I will give one heap away to poor people. And I’m also going to give back to those people that I cheated. I am going to give them back 4 times as much as I took from them.”

⁹Then Jesus told everybody there, “God saved this man right now, today. And he saved everybody at his place, too. You see, this man is one of God’s people now, just like Abraham, because he believes in me just like Abraham believed in God.