Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
lost--and such "lost" ones as this Zaccheus. (See on Luke 15:32.) What encouragement is there in this narrative to hope for unexpected conversions?
stood--before all.
said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord--Mark how frequently Luke uses this title, and always where lordly authority, dignity, or power is intended.
if I have--that is, "so far as I have," for evidently the "if" is so used (as in Philippians 4:8).
taken by false accusation--defrauded, overcharged (Luke 3:12-13).
fourfold--The Roman law required this; the Jewish law, but the principal and a fifth more (Numbers 5:7). There was no demand made for either; but, as if to revenge himself on his hitherto reigning sin (see on John 20:28), and to testify the change he had experienced, besides surrendering the half of his fair gains to the poor, he voluntarily determines to give up all that was ill-gotten, quadrupled. He gratefully addressed this to the "Lord," to whom he owed the wonderful change.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 10:6
Luke 19:2-4
John 4:45
Acts 11:14
Acts 16:31-34
1 Timothy 1:15
Hebrews 10:7
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