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He entered and was passing through Yericho.
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There was a man named Zakkai. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
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He was trying to see who Yeshua was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.
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He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.
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When Yeshua came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zakkai, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
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He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
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When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
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Zakkai stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
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Yeshua said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Avraham.
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For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."