Luke 19:4 meaning and explanation

So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.

Luke 19:4, Berean Standard Bible

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Zacchaeus is Jericho's chief tax collector, wealthy and resented by his townspeople as a collaborator with Rome. Luke has just noted that he was small in stature and could not see over the crowd.

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