Luke 19:1,2

Jesus entered and passed through Jericho Namely, after performing the miracle recorded at the close of the preceding chapter. He was now on his way from the other side Jordan to Bethany, near Jerusalem, to which place he hastened, with a view to be there eight or ten days before the passover, intending to preach and work miracles in the most public manner, under the eye of all the people, and of the grandees, of whose resentment he was no longer afraid, because his ministry had continued the appointed time, and he was determined to die at this passover. There was a certain man named Zaccheus, chief among the publicans One of the principal tax-gatherers, or head-collector, or perhaps what we would term the commissioner of the customs. And he was rich Having heaped up abundance of wealth by his gainful employment.