The episode with Zacchaeus (19:1–10) is notable because it contains many of the main themes of Luke’s Gospel. A chief tax collector (19:2) was probably the head of a group of tax collectors. The grumbling starts again when Jesus decides to lodge at another tax collector’s house (cf. Luke 5:27–32); however, Zacchaeus vindicates Jesus’s decision by demonstrating the reality of his repentance. Half of what he owns he will give to the poor, and he will make fourfold restitution to t…