Luke 19:8-27

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 19:1-10

Many, no doubt, were converted to the faith of Christ of whom no account is kept in the gospels; but the conversion of some, whose case had something in it extraordinary, is recorded, as this of Zaccheus. Christ passed through Jericho, Luke 19:1. This city was build under a curse, yet Christ honoured it with his presence, for the gospel takes away the curse. Though it ought not to have been built, yet it was not therefore a sin to live in it when it was built. Christ was now going from the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 19:11-27

Our Lord Jesus is now upon his way to Jerusalem, to his last passover, when he was to suffer and die; now here we are told, I. How the expectations of his friends were raised upon this occasion: They thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear, Luke 19:11. The Pharisees expected it about this time (Luke 17:20), and, it seems, so did Christ's own disciples; but they both had a mistaken notion of it. The Pharisees thought that it must be introduced by some other temporal prince or... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 19:1-10

19:1-10 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. And--look you--there was a man called Zacchaeus by name, and he was commissioner of taxes, and he was rich. He was seeking to see who Jesus was, and he could not for the crowd, because he was short in height. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree, for he was to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus! Hurry and come down! for this very day I must stay at your house." So he... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 19:11-27

19:11-27 As they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell them a parable because he was near Jerusalem, and they were thinking that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. So he said, "There was a noble man who went into a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and then to return. He called ten of his own servants and gave them 5 pounds each and said to them, 'Trade with these until I come.' His citizens hated him, and they despatched an embassy after him,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 19:8

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, and made his confession to him, as the Israelite, when he brought the basket of the firstfruits to the priest, confessed before the Lord his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 19:9

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 salvation"; by which may be meant, the Gospel, as in Hebrews 2:3 so called, because it brings the account of salvation by Christ, which is not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 19:10

For the son of man ,.... Meaning himself, who was truly man, and the Messiah, and which was one of his names in the Old Testament: is come : from heaven, into this world, being sent by the Father, and with the full consent and good will of his own: to seek and save that which was lost : as all his elect were in Adam, and by their own actual transgressions; and are considered as such, whilst in a state of unregeneracy: and particularly the lost sheep of the house of Israel are meant,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 19:11

And as they heard these things ,.... What Zacchaeus said to Christ, and what Christ said to Zacchaeus; particularly, that salvation, or the Saviour was then come to his house, and that he was come to save lost persons: he added, and spake a parable ; that is, as the Syriac version renders it, "he added a parable to the word", or to what he had said: because he was nigh to Jerusalem : within ten "parsas", or large miles; for at such a distance was Jerusalem from Jericho F6 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 19:12

He said therefore ,.... The following parable, with the above said design and view: a certain nobleman ; the son of a great family, as the Syriac version renders it; of noble descent, of an illustrious extract; by whom is meant Jesus Christ, who was a "man", as he agreed to be, and was prophesied of as such; and who frequently appeared in an human form before his incarnation; and was now actually become man, though not a mere man: and he may truly be said to be "noble"; not only as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 19:13

And he called his ten servants ,.... By whom are meant, not all mankind; for though these are all his servants of right, yet not in fact; nor the elect of God, who are called by grace; for though these are the servants of Christ, and are peculiarly his, yet all that received the pound were not such, for one of them was a wicked man; but the ministers of the Gospel, who are eminently, and in a special manner, the servants of the most high God: but as for the number "ten", this cannot regard... read more

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