Luke 19:3

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

He was trying to see which one was Jesus, but could not due to the large crowd and [because] he was so short.

Cross References

Luke 23:8

Now Herod was very pleased when he saw Jesus for he had wanted to see Him for a long time. He had heard [things] about Jesus and [now] hoped to see Him perform a miracle.

John 12:21

So, these people approached [the apostle] Philip, who was from Bethsaida, in Galilee with the request, ‘Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

Luke 12:25

And which one of you can worry yourself into living a single day longer?

Mark 15:40

And there were also some women watching all this from a distance. Among them were Mary from Magdala; Mary the mother of the younger James and [his brother] Joseph [i.e., probably the wife of Clopas. See John 19:25]; and Salome [i.e., the mother of James and John and wife of Zebedee. See Matt. 27:56].

Luke 19:2

Just then, there appeared a man named Zacchaeus, who was a wealthy, chief tax collector.

Luke 19:4

So, he ran on ahead [of the crowd] and climbed up a mulberry tree [Note: This was a tree that produced a fig-like fruit] in order to see Jesus, who was supposed to pass that way [soon].