Charles Spurgeon

I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“THE publican was justified rather than the Pharisee. The outwardly worse man of the two was accepted rather than the one who was apparently better. "This man went down to his house justified rather than the other."”

Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

“WHEN our Lord blessed the little children He was making His last journey to Jerusalem. It was thus a farewell blessing which He gave to the little ones and it reminds us of the fact that among His parting words to His disciples, before He…”

“Receive your sight!” Jesus replied. “Your faith has healed you.”

“I do not remember that this expression is found anywhere else in the Word of God. It is found in these two places in the Gospel by Luke, but not in any other Gospel.”

When Jesus came to that place, He looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry down, for I must stay at your house today.”

“I THINK this is the only instance in which our Lord invited Himself to anybody's house. He often went when He was invited, but this time, if I may use the expression, He did the inviting Himself!”

And all who saw this began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man!”

“PUBLICANS, or tax-gatherers, among the Jews were objects of intense aversion. The nation was always restless under the Roman yoke, for the Israelite's pride of lineage made him boast that he was born free and was never in bondage unto any man.”

Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham.

“OBSERVE, dear Friends, that our Lord spoke this sentence to Zacchaeus. Some of us may have fancied that He said it to the objecting people, but He did not.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

“HOW FOND OUR MASTER WAS of the sweet title, the “Son of Man!” If he had chosen, he might always have spoken of himself as the Son of God, the Everlasting Father, the Wonderful, the Counseller, the Prince of Peace.”

As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

“ON three occasions we are told that Jesus wept. You know them well, but it may be worth while to refresh your memories. The first was when our Lord was about to raise Lazarus from the dead.”

When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

“I have already said that I conceive our Lord Jesus Christ to have regarded the destruction of Jerusalem as "the beginning of the end."”

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines?

“OBSERVE, dear Friends, that our Lord, in order to impress a great practical Truth of God upon His 12 Apostles, refers them to Himself. He very often does so, quoting His own doings as an example to His servants.”

Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him.

“I SUPPOSE that this incident happened immediately after our Lord's first prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. His pleading became so fervent, so intense, that it forced from Him a bloody sweat.”

And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

“OUR Lord, after having eaten the Passover and celebrated the supper with His disciples, went with them to the Mount of Olives and entered the Garden of Gethsemane. What induced Him to select that place to be the scene of His terrible agony?”

And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three…

“PETER'S fall, as we noticed in our reading, is four times recorded, at considerable length, but it is not once excused. There is not, in any one of the records, a single word said by way of palliation of his great guilt.”

The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.

“I SUPPOSE that all this cruelty took place while our Lord was before Caiaphas, in the dead of night, before the Sanhedrim had been fully gathered together to hold their trial at daybreak.”

When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased. He had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see Him…

“AFTER Pilate had declared to the chief priests and scribes that he found no fault at all in Jesus, they were afraid that their victim would escape and, therefore, their fury was raised to the highest pitch and they cried out the more vehemently against…”

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.

“WHAT tenderness we have here; what self-forgetfulness; what almighty love! Jesus did not say to those who crucified Him, "Be gone!" One such word and they would have all fled.”

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.

“OUR LORD WAS at that moment enduring the first pains of crucifixion; the executioners had just then driven the nails through his hands and feet.”

But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?

“A GREAT many persons, whenever they hear of the conversion of the dying thief, remember that he was saved in the very article of death and they dwell upon that fact, and that, alone.”

And when all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts.

“MANY in that crowd came together to behold the crucifixion of Jesus, in a condition of the most furious malice. They had hounded the Savior as dogs pursue a stag and at last, all mad with rage, they hemmed Him in for death.”

But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.

“THE Lord may be present with His people and yet they may not be conscious of it. They may be conscious of the effect produced thereby, but not of the fact itself.”

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

“Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken."— Luke 24:25. THE TWO DISCIPLES who walked to Emmaus and conversed together, and were sad, were true believers.”

“Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

“IT seems, from these questions of our Lord, that true Believers may come into a troubled state of mind. The eleven were truly Christ's disciples and even His Apostles, yet, when their faith failed them and they refused to believe the testimony that Christ was…”

And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and feet.

“I HAVE selected this sentence as the text, although I shall not strictly adhere to it. What was to be seen on Christ’s hands and feet?”

While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

“THE disciples were gathered together with the doors of the house fast closed, for they were afraid of the Jewish mob.”

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

“IT SEEMS from these two texts that repentance was the first subject upon which the Redeemer dwelt, and that it was the last, which, with his departing breath, he commended to the earnestness of his disciples.”