Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Luke 19:4

2 And there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, who was very wealthy.

3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but could not see over the crowd because he was small in stature.

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

5 When Jesus came to that place, He looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry down, for I must stay at your house today.”

6 So Zacchaeus hurried down and welcomed Him joyfully.

Read the whole chapter

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.
KJV
And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
WEB
He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
ASV
And he ran on before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
DARBY
And running on before, he got up into a sycamore that he might see him, for he was going to pass that [way].
BLB
And having run ahead to the front, he went up on a sycamore-fig tree so that he might see Him, for He was about to pass through that [way].
ÅB
Da sprang han i forveien og steg opp i et morbærtre for å få se ham; for hans vei gikk der forbi.
OTB
Så han løp i forveien og klatret opp i et morbærtre for å se ham, siden Jesus var på vei forbi der.
B1930
Da sprang han i forveien og steg op i et morbærtre for å få se ham; for hans vei gikk der forbi.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 9:10

    “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

    Read in context

  • Luke 5:19

    but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

    Read in context

  • 1 Chronicles 27:28

    Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.

    Read in context

  • Amos 7:14

    “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.

    Read in context

  • 1 Kings 10:27

    The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

    Read in context

  • Psalms 78:47

    He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

    Read in context