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Chapter 19

Jesus and Zacchaeus, the Rich Tax Collector.[a] Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man there, named Zacchaeus, was a chief tax collector and a rich man.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:1 The lesson is obvious: it is God who saves the rich (see Lk 18:27), because he alone can change the human heart. Zacchaeus’s generosity in atoning for the wrongs he has done goes beyond anything the Jewish or the Roman law could require of a judged and condemned thief.