This is French artist James Tissot’s depiction of Zacchaeus in a sycamore-fig tree ... said there are similarities to the story of the Apostle Matthew, who was a tax collector named Levi before ...

This is not the end of Zacchaeus’ story. The memory of the Early Church recounts that the repentant tax collector went on to become a traveling companion of the apostles and a leader in the ...