1HE entered and was passing through Jericho. 2In the city there was a man called Zacchaeus, who was chief of the tax collectors and was rich. 3He was trying to see Jesus \'97 what he was like; but he could not on account of the crowd, for he was short in stature. 4So running ahead he climbed up into a mulberry tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. 5When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, make haste and come down; to-day I must stay at your house." 6He hurriedly descended and welcomed him joyfully. 7All who saw it grumbled, saying that Jesus was going in to stay with a sinner. 8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Master, "See, the half of my property, Sir, I give to the poor, and if I have unjustly taken anything from any one, I will give him back four-fold." 9Jesus said to him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. 10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." 11While they were listening to this, he added an illustration, because he was near to Jerusalem and they were thinking that the kingdom of heaven was going to appear immediately. 12He said, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to get for himself a kingdom and return. 13Calling his ten servants, he gave them each an equal sum of money and said to them, 'Do business until I come.' 14But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him to say, 'We do not want this man to be king over us.' 15When he returned, having secured the royal power, he ordered those servants to whom he had given the silver to be called to him that he might know what each had gained in trading. 16The first came saying, 'Sir, your money has gained tenfold.' 17He said, 'Well done, good servant, because you were faithful in the least you shall be ruler over ten cities.' 18Then came the second, saying, 'Your money, Sir, has made fivefold.' 19He said to this one, 'And you shall be over five cities.' 20Another one came, saying, 'Sir, here is your silver, which I kept laid away in a napkin. 21For I feared you, because you are an austere man; you take up what you did not lay down and you reap where you did not sow.' 22He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping where I did not sow? 23Then why did you not put my silver into the bank, so that when I came I could have exacted it with interest?' 24Then to those who stood by he said, 'Take from him the silver and give it to him who has tenfold.' 25They said to him, 'Sir, he has tenfold.' 26'I tell you,' he said, 'that to every one who has, shall be given, and from him who has not, even what he has shall be taken. 27But those enemies of mine, who did not want me to be king over them, bring here and slaughter them before me.' 28When he had said these things, he journeyed onward, going up toward Jerusalem. 29When they approached Bethphage and Bethany at the mount called the Olive Orchard, he sent two of his disciples, 30telling them, "Go into the village across there, and as you enter it you will find a colt tied upon which no man has ever sat. Loose it and lead it here. 31If any one asks you, 'Why are you loosing it?' say, 'The Master has need of it.' " 32Those who were sent went and found everything just as he had said to them. 33While they were loosing the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you loosing the colt?" 34They said, "The Master has need of it." 35They led it to Jesus and threw their cloaks on the colt and mounted Jesus on it. 36As he advanced, some spread their cloaks in the road, 37and as he approached the descent of the Mount of Olives all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen, 38saying: "Blessed be he who comes as king, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the heights above!" 39Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples." 40But he said, "I tell you if these become silent, the stones will cry out." 41As he drew near and looked at the city, he wept over it, 42saying, "If this day you also knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes! 43For days will come when your enemies will throw up a palisade against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side 44and level you to the ground, and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time when you were visited." 45Entering into the Temple courts he began and drove out the dealers, 46saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers." 47He was teaching every day in the Temple courts. But the high priests and the scribes were bent on destroying him, and so were the first citizens. 48But they could find no way to do it; for all the people hung upon him listening.