Luke 19:3 - Plain English Version

³ Zakias wanted to see Jesus, but he was a short man, and there were a lot of people around Jesus, and they got in his way and blocked him, so he couldn’t see Jesus.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And he was trying to see Jesus, which One He was, but he could not on account of the crowd, because he was small in stature.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the crowd, because he was little of stature.

Common English Bible

³ He was trying to see who Jesus was, but, being a short man, he couldn’t because of the crowd.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he sought to see Jesus, to see who he was. But he was unable to do so, because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

Luke 19:3 Cross References

Mark 15:40

There were some women there at the cross too. Before this time, those women went everywhere with Jesus in Galilee country. They looked after him there, and after that, they came with him to Jerusalem. While Jesus was dying, they stood looking from a long way off. They were Mary Magdalene, and Salomi, and the other Mary that was the mother of young James and Joses, and some other women with them.

Luke 19:2

A very rich man lived there. His name was Zakias. His job was to get tax money from the people and give it to the government, and he was the boss over some other tax men too. Sometimes tax men cheated people and kept some money for themselves, so nobody liked them.

Luke 19:4

So he ran up the road ahead of Jesus and climbed up into a tree, and he saw Jesus from up high in that tree.

Luke 23:8

Herod was very happy to see Jesus. You see, a long time before that day, Herod heard about Jesus, so he always wanted to meet him. He wanted to see Jesus do something powerful.

John 12:21

Those Greek people went to see Philip, one of Jesus’s special workers. (He was from a town called Bethsayida, in Galilee country.) They said to Philip, “Sir, we want to meet Jesus.”