![]() Thus he “climbs,” a manipulative act that has become his normative pattern of life, in attempt to forcefully get “above” those around him. The problem was, as the boss of the hated tax collectors, he was the disdain of the very crowd whose desire he shared. The lyrics focus on the smallness of his physical stature, a fact that presumably forced him to climb a tree to fulfill his desire to see Jesus-a desire borrowed from the crowd around him. He climbed up in a sycamore tree, for the Lord he wanted to see…” “Zacchaeus was a wee, little man, and a wee, little man was he. ![]() This week’s Gospel text is a narrative some people grew up singing in Sunday School:
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