Luke 19:4

And when Jesus came to the place,.... Where the tree stood, in which Zacchaeus was. Christ knows where his people are, and where to find them, where they commonly dwell, or where at any time they are,…

A sycamore tree - See this described in the notes at Luk 17:6.

He ran before - The shortness of his stature was amply compensated by his agility and invention. Had he been as tall as the generality of the crowd, he might have been equally unnoticed with the rest.…

Many, no doubt, were converted to the faith of Christ of whom no account is kept in the gospels; but the conversion of some, whose case had something in it extraordinary, is recorded, as this of…

into a sycomore tree Not the same as the sycamine(mulberry)of Luk 17:6, or with our sycamore(or pseudo-platanus) but the Egyptian fig, of which the low spreading branches are very easy to climb.