Luke 19:5-40

⁵When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.”

⁶So he hurried and came down and welcomed him joyfully.

⁷When everyone saw this, they all complained, saying, “He has gone in to visit a man who is a sinner.”

⁸Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I will restore four times the amount.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.

¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the people who are lost.”

¹¹As they heard these things, he continued speaking and told a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to appear immediately.

¹²He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then to return.

¹³He called ten of his servants, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Conduct business until I come back.'

¹⁴But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man rule over us.'

¹⁵It happened when he came back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded the servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what profit they had made by doing business.

¹⁶The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.'

¹⁷The nobleman said to him, 'Well done, good servant. Because you were faithful in very little, you will have authority over ten cities.'

¹⁸The second came, saying, 'Your mina, lord, has made five minas.'

¹⁹The nobleman said to him, 'You take charge over five cities.'

²⁰Another came, saying, 'Lord, here is your mina, which I kept safely in a cloth,

²¹for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding person. You take up what you did not put in, and you reap what you did not sow.'

²²The nobleman said to him, 'By your own words I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am a demanding person, that I take up what I did not put in, and that I reaped what I did not sow.

²³Then why did you not put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I would have collected it with interest?'

²⁴The nobleman said to them that stood by, 'Take away from him the mina, and give it to him that has the ten minas.'

²⁵They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas.'

²⁶'I say to you, that everyone who has will be given more, but from him that has not, even that which he has will be taken away.

²⁷But these enemies of mine, those who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and kill them before me.'”

²⁸When he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

²⁹It came about that when he came near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the hill that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,

³⁰saying, “Go into the next village. As you enter, you will find a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it to me.

³¹If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say, 'The Lord has need of it.'”

³²Those who were sent went and found the colt just as Jesus had told them.

³³As they were untying the colt, the owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

³⁴They said, “The Lord has need of it.”

³⁵They brought it to Jesus, and they threw their cloaks upon the colt and set Jesus on it.

³⁶As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.

³⁷As he was now approaching the place where the Mount of Olives descends, 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,

³⁸saying, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

³⁹Some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”

⁴⁰Jesus answered and said, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”