eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.… Then who can be saved?” (18:25–26). Second, as a chief tax collector, he is a collaborator with Rome. These are matters of oppression and identity. As liberationists have shown, oppressors (and their collaborators) also need to be liberated. Furthermore, as a collaborator, Zacchaeus has compromised his identity. People call him “sinner” (19:7). He has lost identity among the people of God. The parable of the Pounds is usually