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The Man in the Sycamore Tree
On the last stretch of road to Jerusalem, Jesus passes through Jericho, where a blind beggar will not stop shouting and a rich chief tax collector climbs a fig tree to get a look. We read Luke 18:35 to 19:10 from the World English Bible, British Edition, then look at the Jericho oasis, how tolls were collected under Rome, the fourfold repayment in the law of Moses, and why scholars still argue over what Zacchaeus actually promised. Created with the assistance of AI, using an AI-generated voice.
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