Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham.
9. Today is salvation come to this house. Christ, bearing testimony to Zaccheus, declares that his professions were not hypocritical. And yet he does not ascribe to the good works of Zaccheus the cause of salvation; but, as that conversion was an undoubted pledge of the divine adoption, he justly concludes from it that this house is a possessor of salvation Such, to is the...
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
For the son of man,.... Meaning himself, who was truly man, and the Messiah, and which was one of his names in the Old Testament: is come: from heaven, into this world, being sent by the Father, and with the full consent and good will of his own: to seek and save that which was lost: as all his elect were in Adam, and by...