“And, behold, there was a man named Zaccheus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.”
A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy — chief tax collector (architelōnēs): the head of the tax collection system in the Jericho region — a major trade route city. Chief tax collector makes Zacchaeus the most despised person in the region — the one who managed and benefited from the entire Roman tax system.
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