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 ...

We see pouches of money exchanging hands above the heads of the children, and the townspeople ... One Bible account that demonstrates this is the story of Zacchaeus the tax collector.