Luke 19:1-28

1He 1entered 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 23sycamore 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 4gladly. 7When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone 5to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8Zaccheus stopped and said to 6the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I 7will give to the poor, and if I have 8defrauded anyone of anything, I 9will give back 10four times as much.” 9And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is 11a son of Abraham. 10For 12the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

11While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because 13He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that 14the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. 12So He said, “15A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return. 13And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten 16minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this 17until I come back.’ 14But his citizens hated him and sent 18a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ 15When 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. 16The first appeared, saying, ‘19Master, your 20mina has made ten minas more.’ 17And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been 21faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’ 18The second came, saying, ‘Your 22mina, 23master, has made five minas.’ 19And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20Another 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.’ 22He said to him, ‘24By 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? 23Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’ 24Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ 25And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas already.’ 26‘25I 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. 27But 26these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and 27slay them in my presence.’”

28After He had said these things, He 28was going on ahead, 29going up to Jerusalem.