Luke 19

Chapter 19

Zaccheus Converted

¹He ^aentered Jericho and was passing through.

²And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; he was a chief tax collector and he was rich.

³Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

⁴So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a ^1asycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way.

⁵When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

⁶And he hurried and came down and received Him ¹gladly.

⁷When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone ¹to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

⁸Zaccheus stopped and said to ^athe Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I ¹will give to the poor, and if I have ^bdefrauded anyone of anything, I will give back ^cfour times as much.”

⁹And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is ^aa son of Abraham.

¹⁰“For ^athe Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Parable of Money Usage

¹¹While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because ^aHe was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that ^bthe kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

¹²So He said, “^aA nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.

¹³“And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten ¹minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this ²until I come back.’

¹⁴“But his citizens hated him and sent ¹a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

¹⁵“When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.

¹⁶“The first appeared, saying, ‘¹Master, your ²mina has made ten minas more.’

¹⁷“And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been ^afaithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’

¹⁸“The second came, saying, ‘Your ¹mina, ²master, has made five minas.’

¹⁹“And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

²⁰“Another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief;

²¹for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’

²²“He ^*said to him, ‘¹By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

²³‘Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’

²⁴“Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’

²⁵“And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas already.’

²⁶“^aI tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

²⁷“But ^athese enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and ^bslay them in my presence.”

Triumphal Entry

²⁸After He had said these things, He ^awas going on ahead, ^bgoing up to Jerusalem.

^29aWhen He approached Bethphage and ^bBethany, near the ¹mount that is called ^cOlivet, He sent two of the disciples,

³⁰saying, “Go into the village ahead of you; there, as you enter, you will find a colt tied on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

³¹“If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of it.’ ”

³²So those who were sent went away and found it just as He had told them.

³³As they were untying the colt, its ¹owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

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

³⁵They brought it to Jesus, ^aand they threw their coats on the colt and put Jesus on it.

³⁶As He was going, they were spreading their coats on the road.

³⁷As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of ^athe Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to ^bpraise God ¹joyfully with a loud voice for all the ²miracles which they had seen,

³⁸shouting:

“^aBlessed is the ^bKing who comes in the name of the Lord;

Peace in heaven and ^cglory in the highest!”

^39aSome of the Pharisees ¹in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”

⁴⁰But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, ^athe stones will cry out!”

⁴¹When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and ^awept over it,

⁴²saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

⁴³“For the days will come upon you ¹when your enemies will ^athrow up a ²barricade against you, and ^bsurround you and hem you in on every side,

⁴⁴and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and ^athey will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize ^bthe time of your visitation.”

Traders Driven from the Temple

^45aJesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,

⁴⁶saying to them, “It is written, ‘^aAnd My house shall be a house of prayer,’ ^bbut you have made it a robbers’ ¹den.”

⁴⁷And ^aHe was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people ^bwere trying to destroy Him,

⁴⁸and they could not find ¹anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to ²every word He said.