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|And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.

|And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.

|There was a man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief tax collector, and he was rich.

|There was a man named Zacchaeus, who was the most successful and notorious of Judea's tax collectors, and he was rich.

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|And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

|And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

|Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Lord, I give half of everything I make to charity, and if I ever accidentally take from somebody more than they owe, I give back four times the excess."

|Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Lord, I give half of everything I make to charity, and if I ever blackmailed anybody out of more than they owed (and we both know I did), I give back four times the excess."

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|Literally, "if I sycophanted anyone," which, from its root meaning, meant "if I 'showed the fig' on anyone." To "show the fig" meant to plant contraband or similar evidence of a tax law or customs violation on someone and, in essence, extort from him a tax or duty that was not in fact payable. Roman-hired publicans used to do this frequently. Zacchaeus uses a conditional form that signifies a condition that is in all probability a fact.

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