…he was too short to see over the crowd.

So he ran ahead

and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road,

for Jesus was going to pass that way.

When Jesus came by,

he looked up at Zacchaeus

and called him by name,

“Zacchaeus!” he said.

“Quick, come down!

I must be a guest in your home today.”

Zacchaeus quickly climbed down

and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy.

But the people were displeased.

“He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,”

they grumbled.

Luke 19:3-7