Jesus and Zacchaeus
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📚✭And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 2 📚And a man named Zacchaeus was there, a chief tax collector✭. And he was rich. 3 📚And he tried to see who Jesus was, and could not because of the crowd, for he was short of stature. 4 📚✭And he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, since he was coming that way.5 📚✭And 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 📚✭And he hurried and came down, and received him joyfully.
7 📚✭And when they saw this, they all grumbled, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man”.
8 📚✭And Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my goods I am going to give to the poor. And if I have taken anything from anyone by fraud, I am going to give him back four times as much✭”.
9 📚✭And Jesus said to him, “This day salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. 10 📚For the Son of man✭ has come to seek and to save that which was lost”.✭
The parable of the servants and the money
11 📚✭And while they were listening to these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and because they thought that the kingdom of God✭ would immediately appear.
12 📚✭Therefore he said, “A certain nobleman went to a far country to receive a kingdom for himself and to return. 13 📚And he called his ten servants,✭ and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, ‘Do business✭ until I return.’
14 📚✭“But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
15 📚✭“And it happened that when he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that those servants, to whom he had given the money, be called to him, that he might know how much each man had earned through his business activity.
16 📚✭“Then the first came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has earned ten pounds.’
17 📚✭“And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little thing, have authority over ten cities.’
18 📚✭“And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has earned five pounds.’
19 📚✭“And he said to him in the same way, ‘Be over five cities.’
20 📚“And another came, saying, ‘Lord, look, here is your pound, which I have kept laid away in a napkin. 21 📚For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
22 📚✭“And he said to him, ‘I will judge you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was a harsh 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, so that when I came I might have collected it with interest?’
24 📚“And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’
25 📚“And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds!’
26 📚“And he said, ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. 27 📚✭But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and execute them in front of me.’ ”
Jesus rides to Jerusalem on a donkey and weeps over it
28 📚And when he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 📚And it came about when he had come near Bethphage and Bethany that at the mount that is called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 30 📚saying, “Go to the village opposite. When you enter it you will find there a colt tied up, on which no one has yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. 31 📚And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him this: ‘Because the Lord needs it.’ ”
32 📚And those who were sent went off and found it just as he had told them. 33 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 📚And they said, “The Lord needs it”.
35 📚And they brought it to Jesus, and they threw their cloaks on the colt, and they put Jesus on it. 36 📚And while he was going, they spread their cloaks in the way.
37 📚And now, as he was approaching the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, 38 📚saying, “Blessed be the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 📚✭And some of the Pharisees out of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples”.
40 📚✭And he answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these were to keep quiet the stones would immediately cry out”.
41 📚✭And when he came near the city, he looked at it, and wept over it, 42 📚✭saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this day of yours, the things that would give you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 📚✭For the days will come upon you in which your enemies will build an embankment around you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44 📚And they will level you, and your children in you, to the ground. And they will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation”.
45 📚And he went into the temple, and began to drive out those buying and selling in it, 46 📚saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer’, but you have made it a den of thieves”.