Luke 19:2

behold The style of this chapter shews that St Luke is using a document of Aramaic origin.

a man named Zaccheus Zakkaimeans -pure." Ezra 2:9; Nehemiah 7:14; Jos. Vit.46. There is a Zakkai in the Talmud, father of the famous Rabbi Jochanan, and he also lived at Jericho.

the chief among the publicans Rather, a chief tax-gatherer.He may even have risen as some Jews did, from the subordinate rank of the portitoresto that of publicanus(Jos. B. J.ii. 14, § 9). Priests (see on Luke 10:31) and publicans the latter employed to regulate the balsam- duties, and the exports and imports between the domains of the Romans and of Antipas were the chief classes at Jericho (Jos. Antt.xiv. 4, § 1, xv. 4, § 2;Justin Hist.vi. 3).