together with great dignity to greet Jesus, and Zacchaeus is not invited to join the hosting party. This is a mark of his status. Zacchaeus is despised and excluded. Many hate him. Luke’s story says that because Zacchaeus is short of “hçlikia,” he cannot see past the crowd (Luke 19:3). Many have concluded that this Greek term refers to his shortness of height and that the crowd is a visual obstacle (TNIV, “because he was short he could not see over the crowd”). However, hçlikia refers only to “stature”