The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 19
{19:1} He entered and was passing through Jericho. {19:2} There was
a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
{19:3} He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the
crowd, because he was short. {19:4} He ran on ahead, and climbed up
into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. {19:5}
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to
him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your
house." {19:6} He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
{19:7} When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to
lodge with a man who is a sinner."
{19:8} Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of
my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of
anyone, I restore four times as much."
{19:9} Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house,
because he also is a son of Abraham. {19:10} For the Son of Man came
to seek and to save that which was lost."
{19:11} As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable,
because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of
God would be revealed immediately. {19:12} He said therefore, "A
certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a
kingdom, and to return. {19:13} He called ten servants of his, and
gave them [1>]ten mina coins,[<1] and told them, 'Conduct business
until I come.' {19:14} But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy
after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
{19:15} "It happened when he had come back again, having received
the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given
the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had
gained by conducting business. {19:16} The first came before him,
saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
{19:17} "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you
were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over
ten cities.'
{19:18} "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five
minas.'
{19:19} "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
{19:20} Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept
laid away in a handkerchief, {19:21} for I feared you, because you are
an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap
that which you didn't sow.'
{19:22} "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you,
you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that
which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow. {19:23}
Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I
might have earned interest on it?' {19:24} He said to those who stood
by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten
minas.'
{19:25} "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!' {19:26} 'For I
tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him
who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
{19:27} But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign
over them here, and kill them before me.'" {19:28} Having said these
things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
{19:29} It happened, when he drew near to [2>]Bethsphage[<2] and
Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his
disciples, {19:30} saying, "Go your way into the village on the other
side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no
man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it. {19:31} If anyone asks you,
'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'"
{19:32} Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he
had told them. {19:33} As they were untying the colt, the owners of it
said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?" {19:34} They said, "The
Lord needs it." {19:35} They brought it to Jesus. They threw their
cloaks on the colt, and set Jesus on them. {19:36} As he went, they
spread their cloaks in the way. {19:37} As he was now getting near, at
the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the
disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all
the mighty works which they had seen, {19:38} saying, "Blessed is the
King who comes in the name of the Lord![3] Peace in heaven, and glory
in the highest!"
{19:39} Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him,
"Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
{19:40} He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the
stones would cry out."
{19:41} When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, {19:42}
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to
your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. {19:43} For the
days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade
against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, {19:44} and will
dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not
leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of
your visitation."
{19:45} He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who
bought and sold in it, {19:46} saying to them, "It is written, 'My
house is a house of prayer,'[4] but you have made it a 'den of
robbers'!"[5]
{19:47} He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests
and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy
him. {19:48} They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people
hung on to every word that he said.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:13} 10 minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural
laborer.
[2] {19:29} TR, NU read "Bethpage" instead of "Bethsphage"
[3] {19:38} Psalm 118:26
[4] {19:46} Isaiah 56:7
[5] {19:46} Jeremiah 7:11
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