Luke 19:1-28

1Jesus 1entered Jericho and was passing through. 2And 2there 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 he was unable due to the crowd, because he was short in stature. 4So he ran on ahead and climbed up a 34sycamore tree in order to see Him, because He was about to pass through that way. 5And when 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 5joyfully. 7When the people saw this, they all began to complain, saying, “He has gone in 6to be the guest of a man who is a sinner!” 8But Zaccheus stopped and said to 7the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I am giving to the poor, and if I have 8extorted anything from anyone, I am giving back 9four times as much.” 9And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is 10a son of Abraham. 10For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

11Now while they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because 11He was near Jerusalem and they thought that 12the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. 12So He said, “13A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then to return. 13And he called ten of his own slaves and gave them ten 14minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with this money 15until I come back.’ 14But his citizens hated him and sent a 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 summoned to him so that he would learn how much they had made by the business they had done. 16The first slave appeared, saying, ‘16Master, your 17mina has made ten minas more.’ 17And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave; since you have been 18faithful in a very little thing, you are to have authority over ten cities.’ 18The second one came, saying, ‘Your 19mina, 20master, has made five minas.’ 19And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20And then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept tucked away in a handkerchief; 21for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’ 22He said to him, ‘21From your own lips I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am a demanding man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow? 23And so why did you not put my money in the bank, and when I came back, I would have collected it with interest?’ 24And then he said to the other slaves who were present, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ 25And they said to him, ‘Master, he already has ten minas.’ 26‘22I 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 as for 23these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and 24slaughter them in my presence.’”

28After Jesus said these things, He 25was going on ahead, 26going up to Jerusalem.