Zacchaeus (zuh-KEE-uhs) is remembered in Scripture through choices and relationships that still deserve careful reading.
Birth year: Unknown.
Death year: Unknown.
Active during: The ministry of Jesus, in the first century AD.
Home region: Jericho.
Main passages: Luke 19:1–10.
Story and role
Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector in Jericho and was wealthy. He climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see Jesus, welcomed him into his home, and publicly committed to restitution.
What the record preserves
The biblical passages show the choices, relationships, and consequences that made Zacchaeus part of the larger story. They should be read in context rather than reduced to a single label.
Limits of the evidence
Luke does not record Zacchaeus’s later life. The portrait and tree setting are imagined reconstructions.
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