A son of Abraham too

For the people of Jericho, Zacchaeus no longer belonged. He collected taxes for the Romans and had grown rich from it. Jesus gives him back a title of honour: he too is a son of Abraham. Not: he has become one again. He is one.

And salvation comes to this house. In those days a house meant a whole household: family, servants and possessions. Salvation begins with one person and then spills out into the street.