Lukas 19:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka berlarilah ia mendahului orang banyak, lalu memanjat pohon ara untuk melihat Yesus, yang akan lewat di situ.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka berlarilah ia mendahului orang banyak, lalu memanjat pohon ara untuk melihat Yesus, yang akan lewat di situ.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka berlarilah ia dahulu, lalu memanjat sepohon ara hendak melihat Yesus, karena dari situlah Ia akan lalu.

Contextual Overview

¹ And he entred in, and went through Hierico. ² And beholde, there was a man named Zacheus, which was the chiefe among the publicanes, and was riche [also]: ³ And he sought [meanes] to see Iesus, what he shoulde be, & coulde not for the preasse, because he was litle of stature. ⁴ And he ran before, and clymed vp into a wylde fygge tree, to see hym: for he was to come that way. ⁵ And when Iesus came to the place, he loked vp and sawe hym, and sayde vnto hym: Zache, come downe at once, for to day I must abyde at thy house. ⁶ And he came downe hastyly, and receaued hym ioyfully. ⁷ And when they al saw it, they murmured, saying that he was gone in to tary with a man that is a synner. ⁸ And Zache stoode foorth, and sayde vnto the Lorde: Beholde Lorde, the halfe of my goodes I geue to the poore, and yf I haue taken from any man by forged cauillation, I restore him foure folde. ⁹ Iesus sayde vnto hym: This daye is saluation come to this house, because that he also is become the childe of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the sonne of man is come to seke, and to saue that which was lost.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

climbed: Luke 5:19

a sycamore: 1 Kings 10:27, 1 Chronicles 27:28, Isaiah 9:10, Amos 7:14

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 9:27 - the sycamore 1 Corinthians 13:7 - hopeth

Cross-References

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.

Genesis 18:20
And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:

Genesis 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde.

Genesis 19:6
And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doores after hym.

Genesis 19:20
Beholde here is a citie by to flee vnto, euen yonder litle one: Oh let me escape thyther: Is it not a litle one, and my soule shall lyue?

Genesis 19:25
And ouerthrewe those cities, and all that plaine region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grewe vpon the earth.

Exodus 16:2
And the whole congregation of the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron in the wyldernesse.

Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not folow a multitude to do euill, neither shalt thou speake in a matter of iustice according to the greater number, for to peruert iudgement.

Proverbs 4:16
For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.

Proverbs 6:18
An heart that goeth about wicked imaginations, feete that be swyft in running to mischiefe,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he ran before,.... Jesus, and the company that was with him; so very desirous was he of seeing him:

and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him: which sort of trees were very common about Jericho: hence we read of, של שקמה

קורות, "beams of sycamore" in Jericho, which those that were strong took up in their arms, and the owners stood and devoted them to God g; and among the things which the men of Jericho did, this was one, that they permitted the branches of trees devoted to sacred uses, and of the "charub" tree, and of the "sycamore", to be cut down and used h. This sort of trees used to grow in plains and valleys, as appears from some passages of Scripture, 1 Kings 10:27 and from Jewish writings i; and certain it is, that Jericho was in such a situation. Josephus k says, it was seated in a plain; and Strabo says l, that Jericho is a plain surrounded with mountains; to which agrees the account that m Justin gives of it. There is a valley, which is enclosed by mountains on all sides, as with a wall, like a castle; the space of the place is two hundred acres, and it is called Jericho. Hence we read of the plains and valley of Jericho in Scripture, Deuteronomy 34:3 so that it is very probable sycamore trees grew there in great plenty; though the place was more famous for palm trees: hence it is called the city of the palm trees,

Deuteronomy 24:3 which the Targumist, in both places, interprets, the city of Jericho: to which agree the accounts given of it by Pliny n, Strabo o, and Justin p, who all affirm, that it abounded with palm trees; and the latter says also with balsam trees, from the sweet smell of which it might have its name: so the Jews say q, the ointment of balsam is called the ointment of our land, because it grows in Jericho, and because of the smell of it, it is called Jericho; though some think it has its name from the plain, being in the form of a half moon; the moon, in the Hebrew language, being called ירח r. This tree seems to have been without the city: and indeed, according to the Jewish canon, it ought to be, which runs thus s;

"they set a tree at a distance from a city, twenty and five cubits, but a "charub tree", and "sycamore", fifty cubits.''

The reason of the greater distance of the latter is, as one of their commentators says t, because their branches were large; and this is the reason why Zacchaeus went up into one of these trees, because it was large and able to bear him, and tall, from whence he could have a full view of Christ:

for he was to pass that [way]; or rather, "pass by that"; for the word "way" is not in the text; and the sense is, he was to pass by that tree; or "under" it, as the Arabic version renders it. The tree stood by the road side, in which Jesus came, for which reason Zacchaeus made choice of it, as fit for his purpose.

g T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 57. 1. & Juchashin, fol. 69. 1. h T. Bab. Menachot, fol. 71. 1. & Pesachim, fol. 56. 1. i Misn. Sheviith, c. 9. sect. 2. k De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 27. l Geograph. l. 16. m Hist. l. 36. c. 3. n Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 14. o Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 16.) p Ib. q Gloss. in T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 43. 1. r Vid. Masium in Josh. c. 2. p. 37. s Misna Bava Bathra, c. 2. sect. 7. t Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A sycamore tree - See this described in the notes at Luke 17:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 19:4. He ran before — The shortness of his stature was amply compensated by his agility and invention. Had he been as tall as the generality of the crowd, he might have been equally unnoticed with the rest. His getting into the tree made him conspicuous: had he not been so low of stature he would not have done so. Even the imperfections of our persons may become subservient to the grace of God in our eternal salvation. As the passover was at hand, the road was probably crowded with people going to Jerusalem; but the fame of the cure of the blind man was probably the cause of the concourse at this time.