![]() ![]() My hunch is that he was hiding up in that tree. Indeed, curious though he was, it seems very likely that Zacchaeus’ scramble up into that sycamore tree was not something he was eager to have his fellow Jerichoites witness. It’s the kind of thing you say about someone whose character, identity, and physical appearance are all totally unknown to you. “He wanted to see who Jesus was” is all the text says. (I don’t know why but when I think of Zacchaeus, I picture Danny DeVito from his Taxi days!).īut we have no evidence that Zacchaeus’ curiosity toward Jesus had anything to do with his regard for Jesus as a Savior, a Lord, or any other potentially positive thing. In the familiar little Sunday school song about this story, we are told that Zacchaeus climbed that sycamore tree “for his Lord he wanted to see.” And he faced the difficulty of being “a wee little man” who therefore needed some elevation. In fact, tree-climbing like that was something only a desperate sort of person would do-someone who knew deep down that he had gained the whole world but forfeited his soul someone who knew that deep down in his heart he had a yearning and a hunger that not all the shekels in the Roman Empire was going to sate. What was a man of his social position doing in this silly position? Clettering up a tree like this was not one of the seven habits of highly effective people! And now there he was, hunched up in that tree like some schoolboy hiding from the teacher. He’d scuffed his Bruno Mali sandals and had chipped one of his nicely manicured fingernails on his left hand. What was it that had quite literally chased him clean up a tree? His nice Armani tunic had a chlorophyll stain or two on it from some sycamore leaves he’d smushed up against on his way up into the branches. ![]() ![]() Maybe even before Jesus wandered by, Zacchaeus looked at where he was and wondered how it had come to this. Maybe it was that sycamore tree that did it. ![]()
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