Shared Word Translation

Luke 19

Jesus and Zacchaeus

And entering, he was passing through Jericho. And behold, a man named Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, and he was not able because of the crowd, because he was small in stature. And running ahead, he climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because he was about to pass that way.

And when he came to the place, looking up, Jesus said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.” And hurrying, he came down and received him with joy. And seeing it, they were all grumbling, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore fourfold.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

The Parable of the Ten Minas

And while they were hearing these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they were thinking that the kingdom of God was about to appear immediately. Therefore he said, “A certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. And calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ And it happened that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, so that he might know what they had gained by trading.

And the first came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in very little, have authority over ten cities.’ And the second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’ And he said to him also, ‘And you be over five cities.’

And another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold your mina, which I kept laid away in a cloth; for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’ He says to him, ‘From your own mouth I judge you, wicked servant. You knew that I am a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? And why did you not put my money in the bank, and I, when I came, would have collected it with interest?’

And he said to those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one having ten minas.’ And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’ ‘I say to you that to everyone who has will be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”

The Triumphal Entry

And having said these things, he was going ahead, going up to Jerusalem. And it happened when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, toward the mount called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village opposite, in which, entering, you will find a colt tied, on which no one of people has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’”

And those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them. And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”

And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. And as he was going, they were spreading their cloaks on the road. And as he was already drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing and praising God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying,

“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!

Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” And answering, he said, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out.”

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and press you from every side, and will dash you to the ground, and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

And entering into the temple, he began to drive out those selling, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the leaders of the people were seeking to destroy him, and they were not finding what they might do, for all the people were hanging on him, listening.