The crowd that had been following Yeshua into the city, hoping to witness something extraordinary, watched Him walk straight past all of them and into the house of the one person in Jericho nobody would have chosen.
Category: gospel
Little Man. Big Tree. Part I
And Zacchaeus was not just a tax collector… he was the chief tax collector. He ran the whole operation in Jericho, one of the wealthiest cities in the region, sitting on major trade routes where goods moved constantly, and every cart, every merchant, every transaction was an opportunity to take a cut.
His neighbors knew exactly how he had gotten rich. He had gotten rich by bleeding them.
Sunday Has Come!
“It is finished!” were not words of defeat. They are words of victory! Jesus accomplished the mission He was given by the Father – to pay the penalty of sin of all mankind.