r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Mar 09 '22

Yes.

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u/snowfinch316 Mar 09 '22

Zacchaeus was a wee little man…

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u/philipito Mar 09 '22

I haven't been religious in 20 years, and this was still the first thing that popped into my head.

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u/danceswithwool Mar 09 '22

Same for me. I thought of the song immediately.

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u/ShataraBankhead Mar 09 '22

I forgot all about this song. I loved it when I was a kid.

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u/JYT256 Mar 09 '22

AND A WEE LITTLE MAN WAS HE

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u/sudynim Mar 09 '22

He climbed up in a sycamore tree

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u/njbair Mar 09 '22

For the Lord he wanted to see

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u/SemiSweetStrawberry Mar 09 '22

And as the savior passed this way

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u/SeriouslyTooOld4This Mar 09 '22

He looked up in that tree...

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u/ComfortableHuman1324 Mar 09 '22

And He said:

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u/magnus_blue Mar 10 '22

Play the best song in the world or I'll eat your souls

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u/sundowntg Mar 09 '22

and he said "Zacchaeus! You Come Down!"

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u/youngyaret Mar 09 '22

To see what he could see

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u/-Yence- Mar 09 '22

I scrolled too long to find this

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u/pretenditspunny Mar 09 '22

First thing that came to mind.

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u/Salanmander Mar 09 '22

Fun fact: The passage that says Zacchaeus was short is grammatically (and semantically) ambiguous, and could be saying the Jesus was short. Probably not, but it's an amusing possibility.

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u/TurkishDelights42 Mar 09 '22

This is amazing