The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Luke 19
1 He entered and was passing through
Jericho.
2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He
was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and
couldn’t because of the crowd, because he
was short.
4 He ran on ahead and climbed up into a
sycamore tree to see him, for he was going
to pass that way.
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.”
6 He hurried, came down, and received
him joyfully
7 When they saw it, they all murmured,
saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man
who is a sinner.”
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.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has
come to this house, because he also is a son
of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to
save that which was lost.”
11 As they heard these things, he went on
and told a parable, because he was near
Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s
Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
12 He said therefore, “A certain nobleman
went into a far country to receive for
himself a kingdom and to return.
13 He called ten servants of his and gave
them ten mina coins, † and told them,
‘Conduct business until I come.’
14 But his citizens hated him, and sent
an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want
this man to reign over us.’
15 “When he had come back again, having
received the kingdom, 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.
16 The first came before him, saying,
‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
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.’
18 “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina,
Lord, has made five minas.’
19 “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be
over five cities.’
20 Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold,
your mina, which I kept laid away in a
handkerchief,
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.’
22 “He said to him, ‘Out of your own
mouth I will 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.
23 Then why didn’t you deposit my
money in the bank, and at my coming, I
might have earned interest on it?’
24 He said to those who stood by, ‘Take
the mina away from him and give it to him
who has the ten minas.’
25 “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten
minas!’
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.
27 But bring those enemies of mine who
didn’t want me to reign over them here,
and kill them before me.’ ”
28 Having said these things, he went on
ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
29 When he came near to Bethsphage‡
and Bethany, at the mountain that is called
Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
30 saying, “Go your way into the village
on the other side, in which, as you enter,
you will find a colt tied, which no man has
ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it.
31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’
say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’ ”
32 Those who were sent went away 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 said, “The Lord needs it.”
35 Then they brought it to Jesus. They
threw their cloaks on the colt and
sat Jesus on them.
36 As he went,they spread their cloaks on
the road.
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,
38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes
inthename ofthe Lord! * Peace inheaven,
and glory in the highest!”
39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude
said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
40 He answered them, “I tell you that
if these were silent, the stones
would cry out.”
41 When he came near, he saw the city
and wept over it,
42 saying, “If you, even you, had known
today the things which belong to your
peace! But now,they are hidden from your
eyes.
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,
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.”
45 He entered into the temple and began
to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My
house is a house of prayer,’ * but you have
made it a ‘den of robbers’!” *
47 He was teaching daily in the temple,
but the chief priests, the scribes, and the
leading men among the people sought to
destroy him.
48 They couldn’t find whatthey might do,
for all the people hung on to every word
that he said.