Zacchaeus by name. Jesus needs a place to stay and chooses Zacchaeus’s home. Zacchaeus responds immediately to Jesus’s call. He welcomes Jesus to his home. He acknowledges his sinfulness, repents, and identifies a way to make up for how he has mistreated others. Let’s go back to our human way of thinking. We can easily understand the grumblers’ words in verse 7. Why is Jesus willing to be the guest of a sinner? It would be hard to know the answer to that question if Jesus were like us, a mere man.