A man named Zacchaeus wants to see Jesus as he passes through Jericho, but the crowd is in the way, so he climbs a tree. When Jesus comes to the place, he looks up and calls him by name. Read the story of the man in the tree in English, with the real verse at the end.
6 words you will really use: they appear in the story and in the exercises, and come back for review in the next stories.
tree
a plant with a trunk and leaves
noun
time
one turn when something happens; also how many of the same amount (four times more: four of the same amount)
noun
through
from one side to the other, inside
preposition
look
to use your eyes on something
verb
seek
to look for someone or something
verb
save
to take someone out of danger
verb
The moments of the story, in the order they happen.
Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, cannot see over the crowd, so he climbs up into a sycamore tree.
Jesus tells Zacchaeus to hurry down, for today he must stay at his house; Zacchaeus receives him joyfully.
People say Jesus is a guest of a sinner. Zacchaeus says he gives half of his goods to the poor.
Jesus says that salvation has come to this house and that the Son of Man came to save the lost.
The verse that closes the story, in the World English Bible. After 4 lessons, this is how you read it: the real text, with nothing simplified.
Luke 19:5 · WEB
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
One detail about the scene, with the work it comes from.
What did a chief tax collector like Zacchaeus do? The Tyndale Open Study Notes on Luke 19:2 say that he leased from the Romans the right to collect taxes, and then oversaw other tax collectors from whom he collected a commission.
Source: Tyndale Open Study Notes · CC BY-SA 4.0
First the whole story, in simple English with audio for every sentence. Then 4 short lessons, each with a piece of the story, a tip and exercises. At the end, the Bible verse and a little celebration.
Luke 19:1 to 10, in the World English Bible: Zacchaeus and Jesus in Jericho.
A man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who is rich, as Luke 19:2 says.
He is trying to see who Jesus is, but he cannot because of the crowd and because he is short, as Luke 19:3-4 says.
He says: “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” (Luke 19:5)
He says that he gives half of his goods to the poor and that, if he has wrongfully taken anything from anyone, he restores four times as much (Luke 19:8).
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