Luke 19:1-10

1. Luke 19:1-10 What do we call it?

2. Tax collectors (publicans) • Poll tax, property tax, road use taxes, sales tax • Roman coins had picture of emperor and a Roman god • Bribery of tax collectors by rich • Poor could not make ends meet • Begging • Banditry • Widows • Women married to men older than them • After their death, could not make money

3. Setting: Jericho • Joshua 6:1-27 – Jericho is first placed conquered by the Israelites in their conquest of the Holy Land • 1 Kings 16:34 – Hiel of Bethel rebuilt at the cost of his children • Luke 10:30 – going from Jerusalem to Jericho (valley)

4. Previously in Jericho • Healing of the blind man • Movement of Jesus • Blind man shouting to be healed • Brought to Jesus

5. Who are the rich? • 6:24 - But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation • 12:16;20 – The rich fool who died before enjoying treasure • 16:19-31 – Rich man who went to hell • 18:23-25 - For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. • 19:2 - Zacchaeus was rich

6. Parallels • 18:4 – all who humble themselves will be exalted • 18:22 – Sell what you have and give to the poor • 18:24 – How difficult it is for the rich to enter heaven • Blind man and Zacchaeus • Wanting to see • Standing • Praising God

7. Today salvation has come. • Fulfillment of OT • Numbers 5:6-7 – [If] a man or a woman commits any offense against another.. that person shall confess the wrong that has been done, make restitution in full, and in addition give one fifth of its value to the one that has been wronged. • Exodus 22:6 - When someone gives money… for safekeeping and they are stolen from the latter’s house, the thief, if caught, must make twofold restitution. • Fulfillment of John the Baptist • Luke 3:11-13 - “Whoever has two tunics should share with the person who has none. [Tax collectors] Stop collecting more than what is prescribed.”

8. Father Abraham. Had many sons. • Luke 3:8 - Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance; and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. • John 8:39 – They…said to him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works of Abraham.”

9. He came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.” And he came down quickly and received him with joy. When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.”But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost.”

10. Luke 12:49-53 • “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”