Come Down Quickly

Sought, Faithful, and Entering the City · Luke 19

Story guide: Jesus looks up to adult Zacchaeus seated on a broad sycamore branch above a Jericho crowd. Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector of short stature, climbs a sycamore tree to see Jesus.

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1And he entered and was passing through Jericho.

2And behold, a man named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.

3And he was trying to see who Jesus was, but he could not because of the crowd, because he was small in stature.

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

5And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, because today I must stay at your house.”

6And he hurried down and welcomed him joyfully.

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