Forty seven years ago there was a movie called Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? In the movie a white girl brings home her date and her parents are anxious to meet him until they find out that he is coloured. Suddenly someone crossed the barrier.
In Luke's Gospel account we often see Jesus going to dinner. He is not just with His friends like Mary, Martha and Lazarus but we see Him at dinner with the Pharisees, the ultra conservative religious people of His day, and with the publicans such as Levi and Zaccheus. Luke shows us much of Jesus' teaching took place while He was at someone's house for dinner. If it shocked the status quo when John Wade Prentice came to dinner can you imagine the shock when Jesus showed up at Zaccheus' house.
Here is a trailer for that movie:
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