Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost; 30 October 2022; Proper 26C (RCL); Habakkuk 1:14-, 2:1-4; Psalm 119:137-144; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12; Luke 19:1-10.
The story of Zaccheus is a story I remember from Sunday School (I suppose we sang the song about him), but it is a much more complicated story than I remember. It’s the last encounter with someone outside the circle of disciples before Jesus enters Jerusalem. It stands in the same place as the story of Blind Bartimaeus stands in Mark’s Gospel. In that Gospel, Bartimaeus is the only person who follows Jesus “on the way.” In Luke’s Gospel, Zaccheus is the one person who “gets it.”
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