19:1And having gone in, he was walking through Jericho. 19:2And look, a man by name Zacchaeus: and he was a chief of the tax collectors, and he himself was rich: and he was seeking to see Jesus, who he was: and he could not because of the crowd, because he was small in stature. 19:4And running ahead he climbed up into a sycamore tree so that he might see him: because he was going to pass by that way. 19:5And when he had come to the place, Jesus, looking up, saw him, and said to him: "Zacchaeus, hurrying, come down: because today I must stay in your house." 19:6And hurrying he came down, and received him rejoicing.
19:7And when they all saw it, they were grumbling, saying that he had turned aside to a sinful man. 19:8But Zacchaeus, standing, said to the Lord: "Look, half of my goods, Lord, I give to the poor: and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I give back fourfold." 19:9Jesus said to him: "Today salvation has come about for this house: because he himself is also a son of Abraham. 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek, and to make safe, what had been lost." 19:11As they were hearing these things, adding to them he spoke a parable, because he was near Jerusalem: and because they were reckoning that the kingdom of God would at once be made manifest.
19:12He said therefore: "A certain man of noble birth went away into a far-off region to receive a kingdom for himself, and to return. 19:13And, ten of his servants having been called, he gave them ten minas, and said to them: 'Trade until I come.' 19:14But his citizens hated him: and they sent an embassy after him, saying: 'We do not wish this man to reign over us.' 19:15And it was done that he returned, the kingdom having been received: and he ordered the servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called, so that he might know how much each had gained by trading. 19:16And the first came, saying: 'Lord, your mina has acquired ten minas.' 19:17And he said to him: 'Well done, good servant, because you have been faithful in a little, you will be having power over ten cities.' 19:18And the second came, saying: 'Lord, your mina has made five minas.' 19:19And to this one he said: 'You too, be over five cities.' 19:20And another came, saying: 'Lord, look, your mina, which I have had laid away in a cloth: for I feared you, because you are a harsh man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.' 19:22He says to him: 'Out of your own mouth I judge you, wicked servant.
19:22You knew that I am a harsh man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow: and why did you not give my money to the bank, so that I, coming, might surely have demanded it with interest?' 19:24And to those standing by he said: 'Take away the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.' 19:25And they said to him: 'Lord, he has ten minas.' 19:26'But I say to you, that to everyone who has it will be given, and he will abound: but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
19:27But yet those enemies of mine, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring here: and kill them before me.'" 19:28And these things having been said, he was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 19:29And it was done, when he had drawn near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mountain which is called of Olives, that he sent two of his disciples, saying: "Go into the village which is opposite: going into which, you will find a colt of a she-ass tied up, on which no one of men has ever sat: untie it, and bring it. 19:31And if anyone asks you: 'Why are you untying it?' 19:31thus you will say to him: 'Because the Lord desires its service.'"
19:32And those who had been sent went away: and they found, just as he had said to them, the colt standing. 19:33And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them: "Why are you untying the colt?" 19:34But they said: "Because the Lord has need of it." 19:35And they led it to Jesus. 19:35And throwing their garments over the colt, they set Jesus upon it. 19:36And as he was going, they were spreading their garments beneath him on the road: and when he was now drawing near to the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the crowds of the disciples began, rejoicing, to praise God with a great voice for all the powers which they had seen, saying: "Blessed is he who comes as king in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest."
19:39And some of the Pharisees from the crowds said to him: "Master, rebuke your disciples." 19:40To them he said: "I say to you, that if these are silent, the stones will cry out." 19:41And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: "If you too had known, and indeed on this your day, the things which are for peace to you: but now they have been hidden from your eyes. 19:43For days will come upon you: and your enemies will surround you with a rampart, and will encircle you: and will hem you in on every side: and will throw you down to the ground, and your children who are in you, and will not leave in you stone upon stone: because you did not know the time of your visitation."
19:45And having gone into the temple, he began to throw out those selling in it, and those buying, saying to them: "It has been written: 'My house is a house of prayer': but you have made it a cave of robbers." 19:47And he was teaching every day in the temple. 19:47But the chiefs of the priests, and the scribes, and the chief of the people were seeking to destroy him: and they were not finding what they might do to him. 19:48For all the people were hanging on him, listening to him.