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19:1  And when Yeshua entered and passed through Jericho,
19:2  A certain man was there whose name was Zakkai; he was a rich man and Chief of Tax Collectors,
19:3  And he wanted to see who Yeshua was and he was not able to from the crowd because Zakkai was small in stature.
19:4  And he ran before it to Yeshua and he climbed up a bare fig tree to see him because he was going to pass by there.
19:5  And when he came to that place, Yeshua saw him and said to him, “Hasten, come down, Zakkai, for today I must stay at your house.”
19:6  And he made haste and he came down and received him rejoicing.
19:7  But when all of them saw it, they were all complaining and they were saying, “He entered and lodged with a man that is a sinner.”
19:8  Then Zakkai arose and he said to Yeshua, “Behold, my Lord, I give half my wealth to the poor, and anything that I have seized I repay fourfold to every man.”
19:9  Yeshua said to him, “Today, The Life has come to this house, because This One also is The Son of Abraham.”
19:10  “For The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
19:11  And as they heard these things, he added to speak a parable because he was nearing Jerusalem, and they were expecting in that same hour that the Kingdom of God was going to be revealed.
19:12  And he said, “A certain man, a son of great descent, went to a distant region to receive a Kingdom and to return.”
19:13  And he called his ten servants and he gave them ten minas and he said to them, “Invest in trading until I come.”
19:14  But the citizens of the city hated him and they sent envoys after him and they were saying, “We do not want this man to reign over us.”
19:15  And when he had received the Kingdom and returned, he said to summon to him his servants to whom he had given money that he may know what everyone of them had traded.
19:16  The first came and he said, “My Lord, your mina has gained ten minas.”
19:17  He said to him, “Excellent, good servant! Because you are found faithful with a little, you shall be a ruler over ten fortress cities.”
19:18  The second came and he said, “My Lord, your mina has gained five minas.”
19:19  He said also to this one, “You also shall be ruler over five fortress cities.”
19:20  Another came and he said, “My lord, behold, that mina, which I had is now laid in fine linen.”
19:21  “For I was afraid of you, for you are a hard man, for you take up that which you have not laid down and you reap the thing which you have not sown.”
19:22  He said to him, “I will judge you from your own mouth, you evil servant, for you had known me that I am a hard man, and I take up the thing that I have not laid down, and I reap the thing that I have not sown.
19:23  Why did you not put my money upon the exchange and I would have come to seek it with its interest?”
19:24  And he said to those who stood before him, “Take from him the mina and give to him who has ten minas with him.”
19:25  And they were saying to him, “Our Lord, he has ten minas.”
19:26  He said to them, “I tell you that everyone who has it, it shall be given him, and from him who does not have it, even that which he has shall be taken from him.”
19:27  “However, those my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them and kill them in front of me.”
19:28  And when Yeshua had said these things, he went out to those before him to go to Jerusalem.
19:29  And when he arrived at Bethphage and Bethany on the side of the Mount which is called 'Bayth Zaytay', he sent two of his disciples.
19:30  He said to them, “Go to the village which is opposite us, and when you enter, behold, you shall find a colt tied on which a man has never ridden; loose and bring him.”
19:31  “If a man asks you why you are loosing him, say thus to him: 'He is needed for Our Lord.' “
19:32  And they who were sent went and found just as he had said to them.
19:33  And as they loosed the colt, its owners were saying to them, “Why are you loosing that colt?”
19:34  And they said to them, “He is needed for Our Lord.”
19:35  And they brought him to Yeshua and they cast their garments on the colt and set Yeshua upon him.
19:36  As he went they were spreading their garments in the road.
19:37  When he approached the descent of the Mount of Bayth Zaytay, all the crowds of disciples began rejoicing and praising God with loud voices for all the mighty works that they had seen.
19:38  And they were saying, “Blessed is The King who comes in the name of THE LORD JEHOVAH; peace in Heaven and glory in The Highest.”
19:39  But some of the Pharisees from among the crowds were saying to him, “Rabbi, rebuke your disciples.”
19:40  He said to them, “I say to you that if these would be silent, the stones would be crying out loud.”
19:41  And when he came near and he saw the city he wept over it.
19:42  And he said, “If only now you had known those things that are of your peace, if even in this your day! But now these things are hidden from your eyes.”
19:43  “The days shall come to you when your enemies shall surround you and they shall press you in from every side.”
19:44  “And they shall destroy you and your children within you and they shall not leave you one stone standing on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
19:45  And when he entered The Temple he began to cast out those who bought and sold in it.
19:46  And he said to them, “It is written: 'My house is the house of prayer', but you have made it a den of robbers.'”
19:47  He was teaching everyday in The Temple, but the Chief Priests and the Scribes and the Elders of the people were seeking to destroy him.
19:48  And they could not find what they might do to him, for all the people were hanging on him to hear him.