- (19:1–10)The story of Zacchaeus together with the parable of the ten minas (19:11–27) bring Luke’s Journey to Jerusalem to a close (9:51–19:44). This episode is a fitting conclusion to a section that has sometimes been called “The Gospel to the Outcast.” Zacchaeus is the ultimate of Israel’s outcasts, not just a hated tax collector, but a chief tax collector, the worst among the worst. Yet manifesting God’s grace, Jesus reaches out and offers salvation even to him. The “today” of salvation announced in the Nazareth sermon (4:21) now arrives in Zacchaeus’s home (19:9). Many commentators consider 19:10 to be the best summarizing and epitomizing verse of Luke’s Gospel: “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”Jericho (19:1).See “Jericho.”JerichoJericho is located in an oasis in the Judean desert eighteen miles northwest of Jerusalem. A winding desert road, familiar to Luke’s readers from the parable of the good Samaritan (10:30), connects the two cities. In Jesus’ day there were two Jerichos, the uninhabited city of the Old Testament and a new city located about a mile to the south. Since Mark says Jesus healed the man while leaving Jericho (10:46), some commentators think Jesus was between the two cities, leaving old Jericho (Mark) and approaching new Jericho (Luke). Another possibility is that Luke has rearranged the account to place the healing before the Zacchaeus episode in Jericho.Archaeologists consider Jericho to be the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth, with settlements dating back to 8,000 b.c. At 820 feet below sea level, it is also the world’s lowest city.
JERICHO The Old Testament era tel is in the foreground. Jebel Quruntul (the Mount of Temptation) is in the background
JERICHO Roman era Jericho: excavations at Herod’s palace.
JERICHO Roman era Jericho: the remains of Herod’s palace.Copyright © 2002. - A chief tax collector (Luke 19:2)
- A sycamore-fig tree (Luke 19:4)
- The guest of a “sinner” (Luke 19:7)
- I give half of my possessions to the poor (Luke 19:8)
- A son of Abraham (Luke 19:9)
- To seek and to save what was lost (Luke 19:10)
- The Parable of the Ten Minas (Luke 19:11–27)
- Went to a distant country to have himself appointed king (Luke 19:12)
- Ten minas (Luke 19:13)
- Take charge of ten cities … five cities (Luke 19:17, 19)
- Laid away in a piece of cloth (Luke 19:20)
- Put my money on deposit … collected it with interest (Luke 19:23)
- To everyone who has, more will be given (Luke 19:26)
- Those enemies … kill them in front of me (Luke 19:27)
- The Triumphal Entry (Luke 19:28–44)
- Bethphage and Bethany (Luke 19:29)
- You will find a colt tied there (Luke 19:30)
- People spread their cloaks on the road (Luke 19:36)
- Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! (Luke 19:38)
- The stones will cry out (Luke 19:40)
- He wept over it (Luke 19:41)
- Your enemies will build an embankment against you (Luke 19:43)
- Jesus at the Temple (Luke 19:45–48)
- “My house will be a house of prayer” … “a den of robbers” (Luke 19:46)
- Chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people (Luke 19:47)
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