There is someone I wronged badly years ago and I still want to say sorry. Is it too late to bring it up now?

“And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.”

Jacob had cheated his brother out of a birthright and a blessing, then fled the country. Twenty years later he comes back, sends gifts ahead of him, and bows seven times as he approaches. Esau runs to meet him. The reunion does not undo the missing years, and the brothers do not end up living side by side, but the thing was finally faced instead of avoided for another twenty.

“And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.”

Zacchaeus, a tax collector who had grown rich by overcharging his neighbours, stands up in his own house and commits to paying back four times what he took. Nobody demanded it of him and Jesus did not set the terms. Repentance in that scene is specific and expensive, and it moves toward the people who were actually harmed rather than staying safely between him and God.