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LUKE 19:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost — the mission statement of the Son of Man: to seek and to save the lost (to apolōlos, the lost one, the perishing one). The Zacchaeus story is the enacted parable of the lost coin and the lost sheep — the Son of Man as the seeker who goes after the lost rather than waiting for them to come.

Church Fathers on Luke 19:10

upon the one our Lord waits to show mercy, upon the other He confers the great glory of abiding in his house. The chief among the Publicans is here fitly introduced. For who will hereafter despair of himself, now that he attains to grace who gained his living by fraud. And he too moreover a rich man, that we may know that not all rich men are covetous.

Ambrose · 4th century · Zacchaeus in the sycamore, the blind man by the way side

But Zacchaeus made no delay in what he did, and so was accounted worthy of the favor of God, which gives sight to the blind, and calls them who are afar off.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

The seed of salvation had begun to spring up in him, for he desired to see Jesus, having never seen Him. For if he had seen Him, he would long since have given up the Publican’s wicked life. No one that sees Jesus can remain any longer in wickedness. But there were two obstacles to his seeing Him. The multitude not so much of men as of his sins prevented him, for he was little of stature.

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