Luke 19
1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through the city.
2 There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector, and he was rich.
3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he could not because of the crowd, since he was short.
4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.
5 When Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because today I must stay at your house.”
6 He came down quickly and welcomed him gladly.
7 When they saw this, everyone grumbled, saying, “He has gone in to stay at a sinner’s house.”
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I pay back four times as much.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost.”
11 While they were listening to these things, Jesus told another parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.
12 He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and then return.
13 He called ten of his servants, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I return.’
14 But his fellow citizens hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
15 When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he ordered the servants to whom he had given the money to be summoned, so he could find out what each had earned in business.
16 The first came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten minas.’
17 He said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Since you were faithful with very little, have authority over ten cities.’
18 The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has produced five minas.’
19 He said to this one too, ‘You also take charge of five cities.’
20 Another came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina, which I kept wrapped in a cloth.
21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man: you take what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
22 He said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, wicked servant. You knew that I am a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
23 Then why did you not put my money in the bank? That way, when I returned, I could have collected it with interest.’
24 Then he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
25 They said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten minas.’
26 ‘I tell you, everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
27 As for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”
28 After saying these things, Jesus went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
29 When he came near Bethphage and Bethany, by the mountain called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples.
30 He said, “Go to the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a colt tied up, one that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it.
31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ answer this way: ‘The Lord needs it.’”
32 Those who were sent went and found things just as he had told them.
33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
34 They answered, “The Lord needs it.”
35 They brought it to Jesus, put their cloaks on the colt, and had Jesus sit on it.
36 As he went along, they spread their cloaks on the road.
37 As he was already nearing the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully praising God in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen.
38 They said, “Blessed is the one who comes, the King, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
40 He replied, “I tell you, if these people keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
41 When he came near and saw the city, Jesus wept over it.
42 He said, “If only you, even you, had known on this day what leads to peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build siege works against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.
44 They will level you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
45 Jesus entered the temple and began driving out those who were selling there.
46 He said to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.”
47 He was teaching in the temple every day. The chief priests and the teachers of the law, along with the leading men of the people, were looking for a way to kill him.
48 But they could not find a way to do it, because all the people were hanging on his every word.
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