Zacchaeus - a short man Zacchaeus
was small in stature. What may have troubled him so. What could one do with such a gentle. Was his career in the family? War may already be a father? We do not know. It was definitely a very hateful occupation. What a life!
Zacchaeus - a rich man
Zacchaeus was very wealthy. He was not only a tax collector, he was even "chief tax collector." He was not just the little tax collector, who is sitting at the customs station and cashed the charges, no, it was rather the one who stayed the hand even for his colleagues and the "excess levies" certain. He had done his job as "conscientious" and was so well acted with us which we had made him chief of the whole. What a life!
Zacchaeus - a man full of longing
His wealth, his wealth, all that satisfied him. What he may have heard of stories of Jesus, they said this but to be a "friend of publicans and sinners" (even at this expression one sees how they have been hated by the Jews). It pulled him out, he had to see this "legendary" Jesus. But his small stature prevented him, he was not allowed through? Or he could not believe it?
But Jesus sees him. And come up to him. In Him! the small, despised.
What a life!
Zacchaeus - a man touched by Jesus
"Zacchaeus, hurry down, for today I must abide at thy house!"
That sounded like a Verprechen. Yes, lots even more than that, "Today is salvation come to this house!". Zacchaeus, your desire will be satisfied, come on hurry up! I have come to you!
What is happening at that moment in him, as he may have been feeling.
"And he went down quickly and received him with joy."
His desire is fulfilled. This Jesus, he goes in with him.
He does not need a long sermon, no longer a second thought. He - Jesus takes up in his house. In his heart he has done it already.
What a life!
"for Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."
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