Luke 19

¹And having entered, He was passing through Jericho.

²And behold, a man called by the name Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

³And he was seeking to see Jesus, who He is. And he was not able on account of the crowd, because he was small in stature.

⁴And having run ahead to the front, he went up on a sycamore-fig tree so that he might see Him, for He was about to pass through that way.

⁵And as He came upon the place, having looked up, Jesus said to him, “Zacchaeus, having hurried, come down, for it is necessary for Me to stay in your house today.”

⁶And having hurried, he came down and received Him, rejoicing.

⁷And having seen it, they were all grumbling, saying, “He entered to lodge with a sinful man.”

⁸But having stood, Zacchaeus said to the Lord, “Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I defrauded anything of anyone, I repay it fourfold.”

⁹And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation came to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

¹¹Now in their hearing these things, having proceeded, He spoke a parable because of His being near Jerusalem and their thinking that the kingdom of God is about to appear immediately.

¹²Therefore He said, “A certain man of noble birth went to a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

¹³And having called ten of his servants, he gave to them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business until I come.’

¹⁴But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We are not willing for this man to reign over us.’

¹⁵And it came to pass on his returning, having received the kingdom, that he directed these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, so that he might know what each had gained by doing business.

¹⁶And the first came up, saying, ‘Lord, your mina produced ten minas.’

¹⁷And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you were faithful in very little, be having authority over ten cities.’

¹⁸And the second came, saying, ‘Your mina, master, made five minas.’

¹⁹And he said also to this one, ‘And you, be over five cities.’

²⁰And the other came, saying, ‘Master, behold your mina, which I had lying away in a soudario.

²¹For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.’

²²He says to him, ‘Out of your mouth I will judge you, evil servant. You knew that I am a harsh man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

²³And why did you not give my money to the bank, and I, having come, might have collected it with interest?’

²⁴And to those standing by he said, ‘Take from him the mina and give it to the one having the ten minas.’

²⁵And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’

²⁶I say to you that to everyone having, it will be given; but from the one not having, even that which he has will be taken away.

²⁷However, these enemies of mine, those not having been willing for me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’”

²⁸And having said these things, He was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

²⁹And it came to pass as He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, toward the mount called Olivet, that He sent two of the disciples,

³⁰saying, “Go into the village ahead, in which, entering, you will find a colt tied, on which no one of men ever sat; and having loosed it, bring it.

³¹And if anyone may ask you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you will say, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’”

³²And having gone away, those sent found it just as He said to them.

³³And on their loosing the colt, its masters said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?”

³⁴And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”

³⁵And they led it to Jesus, and having cast their garments on the colt, they put Jesus on it.

³⁶And in His going, they were spreading their garments in the road.

³⁷And in His drawing near, already at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples, rejoicing, began to praise God in a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,

³⁸saying: “Blessed is the coming King in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

³⁹And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples!”

⁴⁰And answering, He said, “I say to you that if these will be silent, the stones will cry out.”

⁴¹And as He drew near, having seen the city, He wept over it,

⁴²saying, “If you knew in this day, even you, the things for peace! But now they were hidden from your eyes.

⁴³For the days will come upon you, and your enemies will cast around you a barricade, and they will surround you and will hem you in on every side.

⁴⁴And they will level you to the ground, and your children in you, and they will not leave a stone upon a stone in you, because you did not know the season of your visitation.”

⁴⁵And having entered into the temple, He began to cast out those selling,

⁴⁶saying to them, “It has been written: ‘And My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

⁴⁷And He was teaching every day in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the foremost of the people were seeking to destroy Him.

⁴⁸And they were not finding what they might do; for all the people were hanging on Him, hearing.