路加福音19:1-10

19:1 耶穌進了耶利哥，正經過的時候，
19:2 有一個人名叫撒該，作稅吏長，是個財主。
19:3 他要看看耶穌是怎樣的人；只因人多，他的身量又矮，所以不得看見，
19:4 就跑到前頭，爬上桑樹，要看耶穌，因為耶穌必從那裡經過。
19:5 耶穌到了那裡，抬頭一看，對他說：「撒該，快下來！今天我必住在你家裡。」
19:6 他就急忙下來，歡歡喜喜地接待耶穌。
19:7 眾人看見，都私下議論說：「他竟到罪人家裡去住宿。」
19:8 撒該站著對主說：「主啊，我把所有的一半給窮人；我若訛詐了誰，就還他四倍。」
19:9 耶穌說：「今天救恩到了這家，因為他也是亞伯拉罕的子孫。
19:10 人子來，為要尋找、拯救失喪的人。」

Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. ² A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. ³ He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. ⁴ So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.

⁵ When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” ⁶ So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
⁷ All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
⁸ But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
⁹ Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

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    撒該雖然是一個被自己同胞唾棄的稅吏長，被視為羅馬人的走狗。但是，主耶穌仍然宣布：「今天救恩到了這家，因為他也是亞伯拉罕的子孫。人子來，為要尋找、拯救失喪的人。」

    這也告訴我們在主耶穌的眼中，每一個願意悔改歸向上帝的人，都是祂所寶貝與看重的，不管他的社會地位，或是過去的所作所為如何，他都願意賜下新的生命，使人可以讓人生再來一次，過和以前不一樣的生命。

    上帝在基督裡的救贖意義，也就是讓人可以再重新來一次，不管過去是風光或是羞愧，上帝願意透過聖靈賦予人新的身分，就是上帝兒女的身分，重新成為「亞伯拉罕的子孫」，也就是透過信領受上帝在基督耶穌裡所預備的永生之福。