Luke [White-light] 19:8-32

⁸Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

⁹Yeshua Salvation said to him, “Today, yishu'ah ·salvation· has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham Father of a multitude.

¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

¹¹As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem City of peace, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.

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

¹³He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina 500 sheckles; 12.5 lb; 5.67 kg coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’

¹⁴But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

¹⁵“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

¹⁶The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina 50 sheckles; 1.25 lb; 0.57 kg has made ten more minas 500 sheckles; 12.5 lb; 5.67 kg.’

¹⁷“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

¹⁸“The second came, saying, ‘Your mina 50 sheckles; 1.25 lb; 0.57 kg, Lord, has made five minas 250 sheckles; 6.25 lb; 2.835 kg.’

¹⁹“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

²⁰Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina 50 sheckles; 1.25 lb; 0.57 kg, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

²¹for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’

²²“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

²³Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’

²⁴He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina 50 sheckles; 1.25 lb; 0.57 kg away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas 500 sheckles; 12.5 lb; 5.67 kg.’

²⁵“They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’

²⁶‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who does not have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

²⁷But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”

²⁸Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem City of peace.

²⁹When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany House of affliction, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

³⁰saying, “Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.

³¹If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”

³²Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.