Luke 19:1–27

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.”