Luke 15:1-2
The Parable of the Lost Sheep and Coin
15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.
15:2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Luke 19:2-10
19:2 Now
a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector
and was rich.
19:3 He
was trying to get a look at Jesus,
but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.
19:4 So
he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree
to see him, because Jesus
was going to pass that way.
19:5 And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up
and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly,
because I must
stay at your house today.”
19:6 So he came down quickly
and welcomed Jesus
joyfully.
19:7 And when the people
saw it, they all complained,
“He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
19:8 But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give
to the poor, and if
I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!”
19:9 Then
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation
has come to this household,
because he too is a son of Abraham!
19:10 For the Son of Man came
to seek and to save the lost.”