4. So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Yeshua, for He was about to pass through that way.
5. When Yeshua came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.”
6. Zacchaeus hurried and came down and welcomed Him joyfully.
7. But when everyone saw it, they began to grumble, saying, “Yeshua has gone to be the guest of a sinner!”
8. But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord. “Look, Master, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have somehow cheated anyone, I repay four times as much!”
9. Then Yeshua said to him, “Today salvation has come to this home, because he also is a son of Abraham.
10. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
11. As they were listening to this, Yeshua went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they supposed that the kingdom of God was about to appear at once.
12. Therefore He said, “A certain nobleman went to a faraway land to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.