Luke 19:8

σταθεὶς : like the Pharisees (Luke 18:11) but in a different spirit in self-defence, not self-laudation. J. Weiss thinks the word indicates the solemn attitude of a man about to make a vow (Meyer). μ. τ. ὑπαρχόντων, the half of my goods, earnings, not of my income (οἱ πρόσοδοι) as Godet suggests. δίδωμι, ἀποδίδωμι : presents, probably expressing not past habit but purpose for the future. This is the regenerating effect of that generous, brave word of Jesus. It has made a new man of him. Yet the desire to see Jesus, of whom he had heard as the publicans' friend, shows that the germ of the new man was there before. A “sinner” doubtless in the way indicated, as the εἴ τι mildly admits, but by no means, even in the past, a type of the hard, heartless, unscrupulous publican. τετραπλοῦν, four fold, as in cases of theft (Exodus 22:1, four or five fold).