εἶδεν αὐτὸν καί. A prosaic pragmatic addition, wanting in אBL, Ti[329] W.H[330]

[329] Ti. Tischendorf.
[330] W.H. Westcott and Hort.

5. Ζακχαῖε. Zacchaeus was so prominent a person in Jericho that we can see no difficulty in his being known to Jesus by name.

δεῖ. The word implies a moral fitness; “as if,” says Luther (quoted by Meyer), “He could not dispense with Zacchaeus, whom nevertheless every one else avoided as a great sinner.”

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