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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when Jesus came to the place,.... Where the tree stood, in which Zacchaeus was. Christ knows where his people are, and where to find them, where they commonly dwell, or where at any time they are, he being God omniscient: besides, the bounds of their habitations are fixed by the determination and appointment of God, and were foreknown by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house. Oh, how astonished must the little Jew have been when he heard Christ’s words! Never was a man so taken with surprise before, but with the word there came a divine softness into the heart of the chief of the publicans, and he yielded to that singularly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house. His surprise at receiving such a message must have been overwhelming, yet he did not suffer that surprise to delay his obedience to Christ’s command.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he made haste,.... Such power went along with the words of Christ, that they immediately reached his heart, awakened his conscience, affected his mind, and drew his soul to Christ, and knit him to him, that be made all imaginable haste to be with him. So souls sensible of their dangerous state and condition by nature, and apprehensive of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he made haste, and came down; and received him joyfully. A great change had been suddenly wrought in him; the opening of the blind man’s eyes was not at all more remarkable than the renewing of the heart of Zacchaeus: “He made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. “This professedly superior teacher, this purist, this teacher of the highest morality, has gone to be guest with this tax gatherer, — a man who is a sort of outlaw, a disreputable...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. Solomon said, “Where the word of a king is, there is power;” omnipotence went with the word of this King of kings, so Zacchaeus was bound to obey it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when they saw it,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions read, "when they all saw this"; that is, as the Persic version, rather paraphrasing than translating, says, "the men and the multitude that were with him"; the "pharisaical" sort, the priests and Levites, of which there were great numbers in Jericho; [See comments on Lu...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. If he had not done so, he could not have gone anywhere, for all men are sinners. “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” But this man was a sinner above others, for he had sold himself to the hated Roman power, and was authorized to collect the conqueror’s taxes from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. I do not know where else he could have gone, for they were all sinners; but they meant that this tax-gatherer was “a sinner” by public reputation, he was an excommunicated person, who was regarded by everybody as “a sinner” in a very special sense.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. I wonder where he could have gone and not been guest with a man that was a sinner; but Zacchaeus was thought to be a sinner beyond ordinary sinners. Our Lord still loves to be the guest of a man that is a sinner, he still wants a place where...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. 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 anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Zacchaeus stood,.... Before Christ, in respect to him, and reverence of him; and in the presence of others, to make a public confession before them, and that they might all hear it, when come to his own house: and said unto the Lord; that is, to "Jesus", as the Syriac and Persic versions, and some copies read; he addressed himself to Christ,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Zacchaeus stood,— And he did not talk at all like a sinner,— Luk_19:8. And said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor;— Some of those saints, as they reckoned themselves, had not done anything like as much as that: “The half of my goods I give to the poor;”— Luk_19:8. And if I have taken any thing from any man by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor;— “Henceforth, one half of my income shall go in almsgiving; “— Luk_19:8. And if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. “I will not give to the poor or to God that which is not lawfully mine. I will not steal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; That was a grand proof that the conversion of Zacchaeus was genuine; I should like to see the same kind of proof in many professors whom I know: “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor.” I remember one who was converted in this place,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; There was not one among those self-righteous people who would have done a tenth as much as Zacchaeus declared that he would do. Luk_19:8. And if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. There was not one among...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jesus said unto him,.... The Persic version reads, "Jesus said to the multitude, and to his disciples"; to which well enough agree the following words: this day is salvation come to this house: to the master of it, and it may be to others in it; the Arabic version reads, "to the inhabitants of this house". The Persic version reads, "great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. And that day he had both sought and saved one of the lost ones, for he had found Zacchaeus up in the sycomore tree, and he had brought salvation to the tax-gatherer’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. This exposition consisted of readings from Luk_18:36-43; and Luk_19:1-10.