1. Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it.
2. Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.
3. He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.
4. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.
5. And 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.”
6. So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully.