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Luke 19:8
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6 So he1 made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.  
7 But when they saw it, they all1 complained, saying, a“He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.”  
8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the apoor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by bfalse accusation, cI restore fourfold.”  
9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because ahe also is ba son of Abraham;  
10 afor the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”  

The Parable of the Minas

11 Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because athey thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately.  
12 aTherefore He said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Luke 19:8-10

stood—before all.

said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord—Mark how frequently Luke uses this title, and always where lordly authority, dignity, or power is intended.

if I have—that is, "so far as I have," for evidently the "if" is so used (as in Philippians 4:8).

taken by false accusation—defrauded, overcharged (Luke 3:12-13).

fourfold—The Roman law required this; the Jewish law, but the principal and a fifth more (Numbers 5:7). There was no demand made for either; but, as if to revenge himself on his hitherto reigning sin (see on John 20:28), and to testify the change he had experienced, besides surrendering the half of his fair gains to the poor, he voluntarily determines to give up all that was ill-gotten, quadrupled. He gratefully addressed this to the "Lord," to whom he owed the wonderful change.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 19:8:

Job 11:14
Ezekiel 33:15
Luke 3:13
Luke 19:2-4
Luke 19:2-4
John 4:45

 

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