In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye,
Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the
Thirty-first Sunday of the Year. Listen:
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19:1-10
At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through
the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and
also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him
because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed
a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. When
he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for
today I must stay at your house." And he came down quickly and received him with
joy. When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, "He has gone to
stay at the house of a sinner." But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Behold,
half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted
anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over." And Jesus said to him, "Today
salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham.
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost."