And there was[a] a man named[b] Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. And he was seeking to see Jesus—who he was—and he was not able to as a result of the crowd, because he was short in stature. And he ran on ahead and[c] climbed up into a sycamore tree so that he could see him, because he was going to go through that way.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:2 Literally “behold”
  2. Luke 19:2 Literally “called by name”
  3. Luke 19:4 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“ran on”) has been translated as a finite verb