Luke 19:1-9

Jesus changes Zacchaeus

About the next group of questions

Jesus cares about the people that everybody hates. But he wants them to stop doing the wrong things that make people hate them.

Pray

Ask God to show you new truths as you study today.

Read: Luke 19:1-9

19:1 Where did Zacchaeus live?

19:2 What job did Zacchaeus have? Was Zacchaeus a poor man, or was he a rich man?

19:3 Why could he not see Jesus when he wanted to?

19:4 What did he do in order to see Jesus?

19:5 What did Jesus say when he saw Zacchaeus up the tree?

19:6 Jesus told Zacchaeus that Jesus would stay at his home. What did Zacchaeus do when Jesus told him that?

19:7 What did the people say as they complained about this?

19:8 Zacchaeus was sorry for the wrong things that he had done. He loved Jesus now. What did Zacchaeus do to show that?

19:9 What did Jesus say that God had done in Zacchaeus’s house that day? Why did Jesus come into the world?

Final remarks

All the tax-collectors in Jesus’ time took more money from the Jews than they needed to. Zacchaeus was willing to pay back extra money to those whom he had cheated. And he would give much money to poor people. He was sorry for what he had done. And he wanted to show that he was sorry. Perhaps we are sorry for the wrong things that we have done. If so, we need to show that we are sorry. We need to make things right with those to whom we have done wrong things.

Pray

Thank you that you rescued me when wrong things controlled me. Thank you that you have changed my life. Help me to do what is right from now on. Amen.