Tuesday of Week 33 in Ordinary Time - Luke 19: 1-10

Nov 17, 2025

The discussion centers on the transformative story of Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who is curious about Jesus. His decision to climb a sycamore tree highlights his humility. The shock of the crowd at Jesus dining with a sinner adds drama to the narrative. Zacchaeus's profound repentance leads him to pledge half his wealth to the poor and repay those he wronged, leading Jesus to declare salvation has arrived at his house. The themes of justice, acceptance, and the mission of seeking the lost resonate strongly throughout the conversation.

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Zacchaeus Happens On Jesus' Jerusalem Road

Luke places the Zacchaeus episode as Jesus nears Jerusalem, highlighting its role in the final journey.
The story appears only in Luke, signaling a unique theological emphasis on outreach to the lost.

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Chief Tax Collector At A Trade Crossroads

Zacchaeus is described as a chief tax collector overseeing a busy trade route near Jericho.
His role likely included collecting tolls and duties, explaining his wealth and social stigma.

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The Sycamore Suggests Eyewitness Detail

Zacchaeus climbs a sycamore because his short stature and the crowd block his view of Jesus.
The sycamore detail suggests eyewitness memory, possibly from Zacchaeus himself.

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Luke 19: 1-10 - 'Salvation comes to the house of Zacchaeus.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2412 (In 'Respect for the Goods of Others') - In virtue of commutative justice, reparation for injustice committed requires the restitution of stolen goods to their owner: Jesus blesses Zacchaeus for his pledge: “If I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” Those who, directly or indirectly, have taken possession of the goods of another, are obliged to make restitution of them, or to return the equivalent in kind or in money, if the goods have disappeared, as well as the profit or advantages their owner would have legitimately obtained from them. Likewise, all who in some manner have taken part in a theft or who have knowingly benefited from it—for example, those who ordered it, assisted in it, or received the stolen goods—are obliged to make restitution in proportion to their responsibility and to their share of what was stolen.

- 588 (In 'Jesus & The Temple') - Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves. Against those among them “who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others,” Jesus affirmed: “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”(abbreviated)

- 549 (In 'The Signs of the Kingdom of God') - By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness, and death, Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below, but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God’s sons and causes all forms of human bondage.

- 2712 (In 'Contemplative Prayer') - Contemplative prayer is the prayer of the child of God, of the forgiven sinner who agrees to welcome the love by which he is loved and who wants to respond to it by loving even more.” (abbreviated)

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