For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Many, no doubt, were converted to the faith of Christ of whom no account is kept in the gospels; but the conversion of some, whose case had something in it extraordinary, is recorded, as this of Zaccheus. Christ passed through Jericho, Luk 19:1. This city was build under a curse, yet Christ honoured it with his presence, for the gospel takes away the curse.
Commenting on Luke 19:1-10
And as they heard these things,.... What Zacchaeus said to Christ, and what Christ said to Zacchaeus; particularly, that salvation, or the Saviour was then come to his house, and that he was come to save lost persons: he added, and spake a parable; that is, as the Syriac version renders it, "he added a parable to the word", or to what he had said...
lost--and such "lost" ones as this Zaccheus. (See on Luk 15:32.) What encouragement is there in this narrative to hope for unexpected conversions?