Luke 19

1He entered and was passing through Jericho.Cross-references: Josh 2:1 · Josh 6:1 · 1Ki 16:34 · 2Ki 2:18 · Luke 18:35

2There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.Cross-references: 2Chr 17:5 · Luke 18:24

3He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.Cross-references: Luke 9:7 · Luke 12:25 · Luke 23:8 · John 12:21

4He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:27 · 1Chr 27:28 · Ps 78:47 · Isa 9:10 · Amos 7:14 · Luke 5:19

5When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”Cross-references: Gen 18:3 · Gen 19:1 · Ps 101:2 · Ps 139:1 · Eccl 9:10 · Ezek 16:6 · +8 more

6He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.Cross-references: Gen 18:6 · Ps 119:59 · Isa 64:5 · Luke 2:16 · Luke 5:29 · Acts 2:41 · +3 more

7When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”Cross-references: Matt 9:11 · Matt 21:28 · Luke 5:30 · Luke 7:34 · Luke 7:39 · Luke 15:2 · +1 more

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.”Cross-references: Ex 20:16 · Ex 22:1 · Lev 6:1 · Num 5:7 · 1Sam 12:3 · 2Sam 12:6 · +13 more

9Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.Cross-references: Luke 2:30 · Luke 3:8 · Luke 13:16 · Luke 13:30 · John 4:38 · Acts 16:30 · +7 more

10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”Cross-references: Ezek 34:16 · Matt 1:21 · Matt 9:12 · Matt 10:6 · Matt 15:24 · Matt 18:10 · +7 more

11As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.Cross-references: Luke 17:20 · Acts 1:6 · 2Thess 2:1

12He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.Cross-references: Matt 21:38 · Matt 25:14 · Matt 28:18 · Mark 12:1 · Mark 13:34 · Mark 16:19 · +11 more

13He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’Cross-references: Matt 25:14 · John 12:26 · Rom 12:6 · 1Cor 12:7 · 1Cor 12:28 · Gal 1:10 · +3 more

14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’Cross-references: 1Sam 8:7 · Ps 2:1 · Isa 49:7 · Zech 11:8 · Luke 19:27 · John 1:11 · +5 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 2:4 · Matt 18:23 · Matt 25:19 · Luke 12:48 · Luke 16:2 · Rom 14:10 · +1 more

16The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’Cross-references: 1Chr 29:14 · 1Cor 15:10 · Col 1:28 · 2Tim 4:7 · James 2:18

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.’Cross-references: Gen 39:4 · 1Sam 2:30 · Matt 25:21 · Luke 16:10 · Luke 22:30 · Rom 2:29 · +5 more

18“The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’Cross-references: Matt 13:23 · Mark 4:20 · 2Cor 8:12

19“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’Cross-references: Isa 3:10 · 1Cor 3:8 · 1Cor 15:41 · 1Cor 15:58 · 2Cor 9:6 · 2John 1:8

20Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,Cross-references: Prov 26:13 · Matt 25:24 · Luke 3:9 · Luke 6:46 · Luke 19:13 · James 4:17

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.’Cross-references: Ex 20:19 · 1Sam 6:19 · 1Sam 12:20 · 2Sam 6:9 · Job 21:14 · Ezek 18:25 · +8 more

22“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 1:16 · Job 15:5 · Matt 12:37 · Matt 22:12 · Matt 25:26 · Rom 3:19

23Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’Cross-references: Ex 22:25 · Deut 23:19 · Rom 2:4

24He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’Cross-references: Luke 12:20 · Luke 16:2

25“They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:19 · Isa 55:8 · Luke 16:2

26‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:30 · 1Sam 15:28 · 2Sam 7:15 · Ps 109:8 · Ezek 44:12 · Matt 13:12 · +10 more

27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”Cross-references: Num 14:36 · Num 16:30 · Ps 2:3 · Ps 2:9 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 69:22 · +14 more

28Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ps 40:6 · Mark 10:32 · Luke 9:51 · Luke 12:50 · Luke 18:31 · John 18:11 · +2 more

29When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,Cross-references: Zech 14:4 · Matt 21:1 · Matt 21:17 · Mark 11:1 · Luke 19:37 · Luke 21:37 · +4 more

30saying, “Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man has ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it.Cross-references: 1Sam 10:2 · Luke 19:32 · Luke 22:8 · John 14:29

31If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”Cross-references: Ps 24:1 · Ps 50:10 · Matt 21:2 · Mark 11:3 · Acts 10:36

32Those who were sent went away and found things just as he had told them.Cross-references: Luke 22:13

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

34They said, “The Lord needs it.”Cross-references: Zech 9:9 · John 10:35 · John 12:16 · 2Cor 8:9

35Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt and sat Jesus on them.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:13 · Matt 21:7 · Mark 11:7 · John 12:14 · Gal 4:15

36As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:13 · Matt 21:8

37As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, 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,Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Judg 5:1 · 2Sam 6:2 · 1Ki 8:55 · 1Chr 15:28 · 1Chr 16:4 · +11 more

38saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”Cross-references: Ps 72:17 · Ps 118:22 · Zech 9:9 · Matt 21:9 · Matt 25:34 · Mark 11:9 · +13 more

39Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”Cross-references: Isa 26:11 · Matt 21:15 · Matt 23:13 · John 11:47 · John 12:10 · John 12:19 · +3 more

40He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”Cross-references: Ps 96:11 · Ps 98:7 · Ps 114:1 · Isa 55:12 · Hab 2:11 · Matt 3:9 · +4 more

41When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,Cross-references: Ps 119:53 · Ps 119:136 · Ps 119:158 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 13:17 · Jer 17:16 · +4 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

42saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.Cross-references: Deut 5:29 · Deut 32:29 · Ps 32:6 · Ps 81:13 · Ps 95:7 · Isa 6:9 · +26 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

43For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Ps 37:12 · Isa 29:1 · Isa 37:33 · Jer 6:3 · Ezek 4:2 · +7 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

44and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”Cross-references: 1Ki 9:7 · Ps 137:9 · Lam 1:8 · Dan 9:24 · Mic 3:12 · Matt 23:37 · +9 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

45He entered into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,Cross-references: Deut 14:25 · Matt 21:12 · Mark 11:15 · John 2:13

46saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”Cross-references: Ps 93:5 · Isa 56:7 · Jer 7:11 · Ezek 43:12 · Hos 12:7 · Matt 23:13

47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.Cross-references: Matt 21:23 · Matt 26:3 · Matt 26:55 · Mark 11:18 · Mark 11:27 · Mark 12:12 · +8 more

48They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.Cross-references: Neh 8:3 · Matt 22:15 · Luke 20:19 · Luke 22:2 · John 7:46 · Acts 16:14