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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Luke 19
² And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; he was a chief tax collector and he was rich.
³ Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.
⁴ So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way.
⁵ When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
⁶ And he hurried and came down and received Him gladly.
⁷ When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, "He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."
⁸ Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much."
⁹ And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.
¹⁰ For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
¹¹ While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.
¹² So He said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.