Luke 19:1 (WEB)
He entered and was passing through Jericho.
Catechism · 1
“Contemplative prayer is the prayer of the child of God, of the forgiven sinner who agrees to welcome the love by which he is loved and who wants to respond to it by loving even more.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 7:36-50; 19:1-10.
Fathers and councils · 24
Augustine of Hippo
“After instancing these things, however, this evangelist again joins company with the others in the narrative relating to the ass on which Jesus sat.” — editor's note: Luke xix. 1–38.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Be a Zaccheus, who yesterday was a Publican, and is to-day of liberal soul; offer all to the coming in of Christ, that though small in bodily stature you may show yourself great, nobly contemplating Christ.” — editor's note: Luke xix. 1 sq.
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Tertullian
“This he promised to do, in an equally satisfactory way, when he offered the half of his goods for all works of mercy.” — editor's note: For the history of Zacchæus, see Luke xix. 1–10.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Zacchæus in the sycamore, the blind man by the way side: upon the one our Lord waits to shew mercy, upon the other He confers the great glory of abiding in his house. The chief among the Publicans is here fitly…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
But Zacchæus made no delay in what he did, and so was accounted worthy of the favour of God, which gives sight to the blind, and calls them who are afar off.
Read the whole comment - Titus of BostraCatena Aurea on Luke
The seed of salvation had begun to spring up in him, for he desired to see Jesus, having never seen Him. For if he had seen Him, he would long since have given up the Publican’s wicked life. No one that sees Jesus…
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What means the Evangelist by describing his stature, and that of none other? It is perhaps because he was young in wickedness, or as yet weak in the faith. For he was not yet prostrate in sin who could climb up. He…
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But he discovered a good device; running before he climbed up into a sycamore, and saw Him whom he had long wished for, i. e. Jesus, passing by. Now Zacchæus desired no more than to see, but He who is able to do more…
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Uninvited he invites Himself to his house; as it follows, Zacchæus, make haste, and come down, & c. for He knew how richly He would reward his hospitality. And though He had not yet heard the word of invitation, He…
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See here, the camel disencumbered of his hunch passes through the eye of a needle, that is, the rich man and the publican abandoning his love of riches, and loathing his dishonest gains, receives the blessing of his…
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Let the rich learn that guilt attaches not to the goods themselves, but to those who know not how to use them. For riches, as they are hindrances to virtue in the unworthy, so are they means of advancing it in the good.
Read the whole comment - Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
Observe the gracious kindness of the Saviour. The innocent associates with the guilty, the fountain of justice with covetousness, which is the source of injustice. Having entered the publican’s house, He suffers no…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
If we examine more closely, we shall see that nothing was left of his own property. For having given half of his goods to the poor, out of the remainder he restored fourfold to those whom he had injured. He not only…
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Zacchæus is called the son of Abraham, not because he was born of Abraham’s seed, but because he imitates his faith, that as Abraham left his country and his father’s house, so he abandoned all his goods in giving…
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He said not that he “was” a son of Abraham, but that he now is. For before when he was the chief among the publicans, and bore no likeness to the righteous Abraham, he was not his son. But because some murmured that…
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Why do ye accuse me if I bring sinners to righteousness? So far am I from hating them, that for their sakes I came. For I came to heal, not to judge, therefore am I the constant guest of those that are sick, and I…
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Mystically, Zacchæus, which is by interpretation “justified,” signifies the Gentile believers, who were depressed and brought very low by their worldly occupations, but sanctified by God. And he was desirous to see…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
The crowd is the tumultuous state of an ignorant multitude, which cannot see the lofty top of wisdom. Zacchæus therefore, while he was in the crowd, saw not Christ, but having advanced beyond the vulgar ignorance,…
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Or the crowd, that is, the general habit of vice, which rebuked the blind man crying out, lest he should seek the light, also impedes Zacchæus looking up, that he might not see Jesus; that as by crying out the more…
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He has well added, that our Lord was to pass that way, either where the sycamore-tree was, or where he was who was about to believe, that so He might preserve the mystery, and sow the seeds of grace. For He had so…
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The Lord as He journeyed came to the place where Zacchæus had climbed the sycamore, for having sent His preachers throughout the world in whom He Himself spoke and went, He comes to the Gentile people, who were…
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It is easy to turn this to a moral use. For whoever surpasses many in wickedness is small in spiritual growth, and cannot see Jesus for the crowd. For disturbed by passion and worldly things, he beholds not Jesus…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Or because the sycamore is from its name called the foolish fig, the little Zacchæus gets up into the sycamore and sees the Lord, for they who humbly choose the foolish things of this world are those who contemplate…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord said to him, Make haste and come down, that is, “Thou hast ascended by penitence to a place too high for thee, come down by humility, lest thy exaltation cause thee to slip. I must abide in the house of a…
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 19:1–10 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 19:1–10 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 19:1–10 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 19:1–10 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.