Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10
The crowds bustled in the dusty streets, jostling him, pushing him. What was all the commotion? He pressed his portly frame through the mass of people. He was not used to being pushed around, and he didn't enjoy mingling with the masses. But he had to find out the cause of all the excitement.
Being a short man, he could not see over the heads of all the people pushing toward the street. "What is it?" he asked. "What's all the excitement about?"
A woman answered, "Jesus! Jesus of Nazareth is passing by."
Zacchaeus had heard wild stories about this Jesus, so wild in fact that he hardly could believe they were true. Now he had an opportunity to see the man for himself; he could not let it go by. So he ran ahead of the crowd and climbed up in to the boughs of a sycamore-fig tree along the route Jesus would take.
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