Luke 19:1-10, from Proper 26 (31)

Zacchaeus, the funny little man in the funny little story that opens the 19th chapter of St. Luke’s gospel, perhaps comes off as comic relief during the otherwise intense, ominous story of Jesus’ trip through Jericho on his way to betrayal and execution in Jerusalem. I remember much being made in Sunday school when I was a boy about the facts that Zacchaeus was short and that he resorted to climbing a tree so he could see Jesus over the heads of the rest of the crowd. Show of hands: Who remembers the song? It started out, “Zacchaeus was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he …” Bonus points if you can still do the motions.

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