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Zacchaeus

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Zacchaeus or Zaccheus (both: zăkē`əs) [Gr.,=Heb. Zaccai Zaccai (zăk`āī, zəkā`ī), in the Bible, family that returned from the Exile.
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], in the New Testament, publican of Jericho, short of stature, who climbed a tree to see Jesus.
Zacchaeus
little man took to tree to see Christ. [N.T.: Luke 19:3–4]
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Zacchaeus (chapter 19) enacts that vision in anticipation of what is to come.
But just as Jesus met Zacchaeus, the woman at the well, and the doubting father (who wanted his son's cure more than anything else, even authentic faith), we have to see that even the tentative approach is holy, that the desire to find something, even something as simple as human companionship, is a sign of the need we have to be one with others, something that at its heart brings us into the mystery of the Trinity.
And like the tax collector Zacchaeus (Luke 19), the repentant Scrooge promises to share his bounty with those in need (like Tiny Tim) and to make amends to those he has defrauded (like Bob Cratchit).
 
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