When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.”
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
“ ‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.