{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/luk019.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/luk019.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/luk019.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nLuke 19:1\n \nluk 19:1\nHe passed through Jericho - So that Zaccheus must have lived near the end of the town: the tree was in the town itself. And he was rich - These words seem to refer to the discourse in the last chapter, Luk 18:24-27, particularly to Luk 18:27. Zaccheus is a proof, that it is possible by the power of God for even a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. \nLuke 19:2\n \nluk 19:2\nThe chief of the publicans - What we would term, commissioner of the customs. A very honourable as well as profitable place. \nLuke 19:4\n \nluk 19:4\nAnd running before - With great earnestness. He climbed up - Notwithstanding his quality: desire conquering honour and shame. \nLuke 19:5\n \nluk 19:5\nJesus said, Zaccheus, make haste and come down - What a strange mixture of passions must Zaccheus have now felt, hearing one speak, as knowing both his name and his heart! \nLuke 19:7\n \nluk 19:7\nThey all murmured - All who were near: though most of them rather out of surprise than indignation. \nLuke 19:8\n \nluk 19:8\nAnd Zaccheus stood - Showing by his posture, his deliberate, purpose and ready mind, and said, Behold, Lord, I give - I determine to do it immediately. \nLuke 19:9\n \nluk 19:9\nHe also is a son of Abraham - A Jew born, and as such has a right to the first offer of salvation. \nLuke 19:10\n \nluk 19:10\nMat 18:11. \nLuke 19:11\n \nluk 19:11\nThey thought the kingdom of God - A glorious temporal kingdom, would immediately appear. \nLuke 19:12\n \nluk 19:12\nHe went into a far country to receive a kingdom - Christ went to heaven, to receive his sovereign power as wan, even all authority in heaven and earth. Mat 25:14; Mar 13:34. \nLuke 19:13\n \nluk 19:13\nTrade till I come - To visit the nation, to destroy Jerusalem, to judge the world: or, in a more particular sense, to require thy soul of thee. \nLuke 19:14\n \nluk 19:14\nBut his citizens - Such were those of Jerusalem, hated him, and sent an embassy after him - The word seems to imply, their sending ambassadors to a superior court, to enter their protest against his being admitted to the regal power. In such a solemn manner did the Jews protest, as it were, before God, that Christ should not reign over them: this man - So they call him in contempt. \nLuke 19:15\n \nluk 19:15\nWhen he was returned - In his glory. \nLuke 19:23\n \nluk 19:23\nWith interest - Which does not appear to be contrary to any law of God or man. But this is no plea for usury, that is, the taking such interest as implies any degree of oppression or extortion. \nLuke 19:25\n \nluk 19:25\nThey said - With admiration, not envy. \nLuke 19:26\n \nluk 19:26\nMat 25:29; Luk 8:18. \nLuke 19:27\n \nluk 19:27\nHe went before - The foremost of the company, showing his readiness to suffer. \nLuke 19:29\n \nluk 19:29\nHe drew nigh to the place where the borders of Bethphage and Bethany met, which was at the foot of the mount of Olives. Mat 21:1; Mar 11:1. \nLuke 19:37\n \nluk 19:37\nThe whole multitude began to praise God - Speaking at once, as it seems, from a Divine impulse, words which most of them did not understand. \nLuke 19:38\n \nluk 19:38\nPeace in heaven - God being reconciled to man. \nLuke 19:39\n \nluk 19:39\nRebuke thy disciples - Paying thee this immoderate honour. \nLuke 19:40\n \nluk 19:40\nIf these should hold their peace, the stones, which lie before you, would cry out - That is, God would raise up some still more unlikely instruments to declare his praise. For the power of God will not return empty. \nLuke 19:42\n \nluk 19:42\nO that thou hadst known, at least in this thy day - After thou hast neglected so many. Thy day - The day wherein God still offers thee his blessings. \nLuke 19:43\n \nluk 19:43\nThine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee around - All this was exactly performed by Titus, the Roman general. \nLuke 19:44\n \nluk 19:44\nAnd thy children within thee - All the Jews were at that time gathered together, it being the time of the passover. They shall not leave in thee one stone upon another - Only three towers were left standing for a time, to show the former strength and magnificence of the place. But these likewise were afterward levelled with the ground. \nLuke 19:45\n \nluk 19:45\nMat 21:12; Mar 11:11. \nLuke 19:46\n \nluk 19:46\nIsa 56:7.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Luke: Luke Chapter 19","type":"page"}