It is my design (God helping) to make some
remarks upon his conversion recorded at large in the preceding verses, and then
to enforce the latter part of the text, as an encouragement to poor undone
sinners to come to Jesus Christ. “For the Son of man is come, to seek and to
save that which was lost.”
The evangelist Luke introduces the account
of this man's conversion thus, verse 1.
“And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.” The holy Jesus made it his
business to go about doing good. As the sun in the firmament is continually
spreading his benign, quickening, and cheering influences over the natural; so
the Son of righteousness arose with healing under his wings, and was daily and
hourly diffusing his gracious influences over the moral world. The preceding
chapter acquaints us of a notable miracle wrought by the holy Jesus, on poor
blind Bartimeus; and in this, a greater presents itself to our consideration.
The evangelist would have us take particular notice of it; for he introduces it
with the word “behold:” “and behold, there was a man named Zaccheus, who was
the chief among the Publicans, and he was rich.”
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