Hope Changes Things

¹Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. ²Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. ³He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd. ⁴So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him because Jesus was going to pass that way. ⁵And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly because I must stay at your house today.” ⁶So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully. ⁷And when the people saw it, they all complained, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” ⁸But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!” ⁹Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household because he too is a son of Abraham! ¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”