 that he was going home with zacchaeus he didn't say zacchaeus is there a back way to your house can we go under the cover of night like nicodemus he just walked right down the street of jericho in fact he said to all of the people when he called zacchaeus down from the tree come on down zacchaeus i'm coming to your house today everybody heard it everybody knew it and he went home with this man and that brings us to verses eight and nine