Humbling and exalting is a
theme in Luke 18-19.
Two men go up to the
temple to pray (18:9). One man exalts himself and the other humbles himself.
This latter and not the other goes down to his house justified before God (18:14).
Zacchaeus exalts himself.
He went up onto a sycamore tree (19:4) but Jesus commanded him to come down at
once (19:5). Zacchaeus humbles himself and repents and Jesus exalts him, declaring
that salvation has come to his house and that Zacchaeus too is a son of
Abraham.
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