1 Ja hän tuli Jerikon kaupunkiin ja kulki sen läpi.2 Ja katso, siellä oli mies, nimeltä Sakkeus; ja hän oli publikaanien päämies ja oli rikas.3 Ja hän koetti saada nähdä Jeesusta, kuka hän oli, mutta ei voinut kansalta, kun oli varreltansa vähäinen.4 Niin hän juoksi edelle ja nousi metsäviikunapuuhun nähdäkseen hänet, sillä Jeesus oli kulkeva siitä ohitse.6 Ja hän tuli nopeasti alas ja otti hänet iloiten vastaan.

1 He entered and was passing through Jericho. 2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short. 4 He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." 6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."

9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."