He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.
There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
And which of you by worrying can add an hour to his life?
Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.
So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.
When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.
So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”