Mar 25
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- Think of the rich young ruler of Luke 18:18-23, the blind beggar of Luke 18:35-43, and Zacchaeus the chief tax collector of Luke 19:1-10. Which of these would the Jews of Jesus’ day expect to have life eternal? Which of these did? Why?
- What does the story of Zacchaeus have to do with Jesus’ remark, “For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God… What is impossible with man is possible with God.” (Luke 18:25–27)
- What matters more, that Zacchaeus saw Jesus, or that Jesus fixed his eyes on Zacchaeus? Why?
- When Jesus called Zacchaeus to himself, “he hurried and came down and received [Jesus] joyfully” (Luke 19:6) and committed to give half his goods to the poor. Contrast this with the response of the rich young ruler of Luke 18:35-43.
- What does it mean that the “Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” (Luke 19:10)
