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The Gospel of Luke 19

19 Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the city. 2 There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was in charge of collecting taxes, and he was very rich. 3 He wanted to see Jesus, but he could not see him over the crowd. He was a very short man and there were many people around Jesus. 4 So he ran farther down the road. He climbed a sycamore fig tree so he could see Jesus when he came by. 5 When Jesus got there, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, I have to stay at your house tonight!” 6 So he came down quickly. He was glad to welcome Jesus into his home. 7 But the people who saw Jesus go there grumbled, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a real sinner!” 8 Then Zacchaeus stood up while they were eating and said to Jesus, “Lord, I want you to know that I am going to give half of what I own to poor people. And as for the people whom I have cheated, I will pay them back four times the amount I took from them.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Today God has saved this household, because this man has shown that he is a true descendant of Abraham. 10 Remember this: I, the Son of Man, came to find and save people like you who have been disobeying God.”

11 The people were listening to everything Jesus said. He was getting close to Jerusalem, and he knew that the people had a wrong idea. They thought he would begin to rule as king over God’s people as soon as he got to Jerusalem. So Jesus decided to tell them another story to correct that idea. 12 He said, “A prince was preparing to go to a distant country so that a higher king could give him the right to rule over the country where he lived. After he received it, he would come back to rule his people. 13 Before he left, he summoned ten of his servants. He gave each of them an equal amount of money. He said to them, ‘Do business with this money until I return!’ Then he left. 14 But many people of his country hated him. So they sent some messengers to follow him and say to the higher king, ‘We do not want this man to be our king!’ 15 But he was made king anyway. Later he returned as the new king. Then he called in the servants to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had gained by doing business with the money he had given them. 16 The first servant came to him and said, ‘Sir, with your money I have earned ten times as much!’ 17 He said to this man, ‘You are a good servant! You have done very well! Because you have faithfully taken care of a small amount of money, I will give you ten cities to rule over.’ 18 Then the second servant came and said, ‘Sir, the money you gave me is now worth five times as much!’ 19 He also said to that servant, ‘Well done! I will put you over five cities.’ 20 Then another servant came. He said, ‘Sir, here is your money. I wrapped it up in a cloth and hid it to keep it safe. 21 I was afraid that you would take everything I earned. I know you are a hard man who takes things from others that do not really belong to you. You are like a farmer who harvests grain that another farmer has planted.’ 22 He said to that servant, ‘You wicked servant! I will condemn you by the words you just said. You said I am a hard man. You said I take what does not belong to me. You said I am like a farmer who harvests what another farmer has planted. 23 So you should at least have given my money to money lenders! Then when I returned I could have collected that amount plus the interest it would have earned!’ 24 Then the king said to those who were standing near, ‘Take the money from him and give it to the servant who made ten times as much!’ 25 They protested, ‘But sir, he already has a lot of money!’ 26 But the king said, ‘I tell you this: To the people who use well what they have received, I will give even more. But from the people who do not use well what they have received, I will take away even what they already have. 27 Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to rule over them, bring them here and execute them while I am watching!’”

28 After Jesus said those things, he traveled farther along on the road up to Jerusalem. 29 When they got close to the villages of Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples on ahead. 30 He told them, “Go to the village just ahead of you. As you enter it, there you will see a young donkey tied up that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it to me. 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying the donkey?’ say to him, ‘Jesus needs it.’” 32 So the two disciples went to the village and found the donkey, just as Jesus had told them. 33 As they were untying it, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying our donkey?” 34 They replied, “Jesus needs it.” And the owners gave them permission to use it. 35 Then the disciples brought the donkey to Jesus. They threw their robes on the donkey’s back and helped Jesus get on it. 36 Then, as he rode along, others spread their robes on the road in front of him to honor him. 37 As Jesus approached the road that goes down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to praise God with loud, joyful shouts for all the great miracles that they had seen him do. 38 They were saying things like, “May God bless our king who comes with God’s authority! May there be peace between God in heaven and us his people, and may everyone praise God!” 39 Some of the Pharisees who were in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell your disciples to stop saying those things!” 40 He replied, “I tell you this: If these people were silent, the stones themselves would shout to praise me!”

41 When Jesus came near to Jerusalem and saw the city, he cried about its people. 42 He said, “I wish that today you people knew how to have God’s peace. But now you are unable to know this. 43 I want you to know this: You are going to experience difficult times. Your enemies will come and set up a barricade around your city. They will surround the city and attack it on all sides. 44 They will break through the walls and destroy them and the rest of the city. They will kill all of you. They will completely demolish everything. All this will happen because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!”

45 Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courtyard. He began to force the people who were selling things there to leave. 46 He told them, “The Scriptures say, ‘God’s temple should be a place where people pray.’ But you have made it ‘a hideout for thieves’!”

47 Each day during that week, Jesus was teaching people at the temple. The chief priests, the teachers of religious laws, and other Jewish leaders were trying to find a way to kill him. 48 But they did not find any way to do it, because very many people were eager to hear him.

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