Luke 19:4

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So he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore-fig tree to see him, because Jesus was about to pass that way.

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  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the lowlands.
  • 1 Chr 27:28 : 28 Over the olive and sycamore trees in the lowlands was Baal-Hanan the Gederite; over the storehouses of oil was Joash.
  • Isa 9:10 : 10 But the LORD has strengthened Rezin’s adversaries against them and has stirred up their enemies.
  • Amos 7:14 : 14 Amos answered Amaziah, 'I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs.'
  • Luke 5:19 : 19 When they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered the man on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
  • Ps 78:47 : 47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost.

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    1As Jesus entered Jericho, he was passing through the city.

    2And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.

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    8But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! I am giving half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay back four times as much."

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    27After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. He said to him, "Follow Me."

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