Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Ran on before (prodramwn eiv to emprosqen). Second aorist active participle of protrexw (defective verb). "Before" occurs twice (pro- and eiv to emprosqen).
Into a sycamore tree (epi sukomorean). From sukon, fig, and moron, mulberry. The fig-mulberry and quite a different tree from the sycamine tree in Luke 17:6, which see. It bore a poor fruit which poor people ate (Amos 7:14). It was a wide open tree with low branches so that Zacchaeus could easily climb into it.
That way (ekeinhv). Feminine for odov (way) is understood. Genitive case with di in composition (dierxesqai) or as an adverbial use.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 19:4:
Luke 17:6
John 20:4
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