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1 And having entered, he walked through Jericho.
1 Y HABIENDO entrado [Jesús], iba pasando por Jericó;
1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. And he was the leader of the tax collectors, and he was wealthy.
2 Y he aquí un varón llamado Zaqueo, el cual era el principal de los publicanos, y era rico;
2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
3 And he sought to see Jesus, to see who he was. But he was unable to do so, because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.
3 Y procuraba ver á Jesús quién fuese; mas no podía á causa de la multitud, porque era pequeño de estatura.
3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.
4 And running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree, so that he might see him. For he was to pass near there.
4 Y corriendo delante, subióse á un árbol sicómoro para verle; porque había de pasar por allí.
4 He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
5 And when he had arrived at the place, Jesus looked up and saw him, and he said to him: “Zacchaeus, hurry down. For today, I should lodge in your house.”
5 Y como vino á aquel lugar Jesús, mirando, le vió, y díjole: Zaqueo, date priesa, desciende, porque hoy es necesario que pose en tu casa.
5 When 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.”
6 And hurrying, he came down, and he received him joyfully.
6 Entonces él descendió apriesa, y le recibió gozoso.
6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
7 And when they all saw this, they murmured, saying that he had turned aside to a sinful man.
7 Y viendo esto, todos murmuraban, diciendo que había entrado á posar con un hombre pecador.
7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
8 But Zacchaeus, standing still, said to the Lord: “Behold, Lord, one half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone in any matter, I will repay him fourfold.”
8 Entonces Zaqueo, puesto en pie, dijo al Señor: He aquí, Señor, la mitad de mis bienes doy á los pobres; y si en algo he defraudado á alguno, lo vuelvo con el cuatro tanto.
8 Zacchaeus 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.”
9 Jesus said to him: “Today, salvation has come to this house; because of this, he too is a son of Abraham.
9 Y Jesús le dijo: Hoy ha venido la salvación á esta casa; por cuanto él también es hijo de Abraham.
9 Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of man has come to seek and to save what had been lost.”
10 Porque el Hijo del hombre vino á buscar y á salvar lo que se había perdido.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
11 As they were listening to these things, continuing on, he spoke a parable, because he was nearing Jerusalem, and because they guessed that the kingdom of God might be manifested without delay.
11 Y oyendo ellos estas cosas, prosiguió [Jesús] y dijo una parábola, por cuanto estaba cerca de Jerusalem, y porque pensaban que luego había de ser manifestado el reino de Dios.
11 As 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.
12 Therefore, he said: “A certain man of nobility traveled to a far away region, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
12 Dijo pues: Un hombre noble partió á una provincia lejos, para tomar para sí un reino, y volver.
12 He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
13 And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds, and he said to them: ‘Do business until I return.’
13 Mas llamados diez siervos suyos, les dió diez minas, y díjoles: Negociad entre tanto que vengo.
13 He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’
14 But his citizens hated him. And so they sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this one to reign over us.’
14 Empero sus ciudadanos le aborrecían, y enviaron tras de él una embajada, diciendo: No queremos que éste reine sobre nosotros.
14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
15 And it happened that he returned, having received the kingdom. And he ordered the servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called so that he would know how much each one had earned by doing business.
15 Y aconteció, que vuelto él, habiendo tomado el reino, mandó llamar á sí á aquellos siervos á los cuales había dado el dinero, para saber lo que había negociado cada uno.
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.
16 Now the first approached, saying: ‘Lord, your one pound has earned ten pounds.’
16 Y vino el primero, diciendo: Señor, tu mina ha ganado diez minas.
16 The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
17 And he said to him: ‘Well done, good servant. Since you have been faithful in a small matter, you will hold authority over ten cities.’
17 Y él le dice: Está bien, buen siervo; pues que en lo poco has sido fiel, tendrás potestad sobre diez ciudades.
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.’
18 And the second came, saying: ‘Lord, your one pound has earned five pounds.’
18 Y vino otro, diciendo: Señor, tu mina ha hecho cinco minas.
18 “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’
19 And he said to him, ‘And so, you shall be over five cities.’
19 Y también á éste dijo: Tú también sé sobre cinco ciudades.
19 “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
20 And another approached, saying: ‘Lord, behold your one pound, which I kept stored in a cloth.
20 Y vino otro, diciendo: Señor, he aquí tu mina, la cual he tenido guardada en un pañizuelo:
20 Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
21 For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.’
21 Porque tuve miedo de ti, que eres hombre recio; tomas lo que no pusiste, y siegas lo que no sembraste.
21 for 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.’
22 He said to him: ‘By your own mouth, do I judge you, O wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.
22 Entonces él le dijo: Mal siervo, de tu boca te juzgo. Sabías que yo era hombre recio, que tomo lo que no puse, y que siego lo que no sembré;
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.
23 And so, why did you not give my money to the bank, so that, upon my return, I might have withdrawn it with interest?’
23 ¿Por qué, pues, no diste mi dinero al banco, y yo viniendo lo demandara con el logro?
23 Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
24 And he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the pound away from him, and give it to him who has ten pounds.’
24 Y dijo á los que estaban presentes: Quitadle la mina, y dadla al que tiene las diez minas.
24 He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’
25 And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds.’
25 Y ellos le dijeron: Señor, tiene diez minas.
25 “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’
26 So then, I say to you, that to all who have, it shall be given, and he will have in abundance. And from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
26 Pues yo os digo que á cualquiera que tuviere, le será dado; mas al que no tuviere, aun lo que tiene le será quitado.
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.
27 ‘Yet truly, as for those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and put them to death before me.’ ”
27 Y también á aquellos mis enemigos que no querían que yo reinase sobre ellos, traedlos acá, y degolladlos delante de mí.
27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
28 And having said these things, he went ahead, ascending to Jerusalem.
28 Y dicho esto, iba delante subiendo á Jerusalem.
28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
29 And it happened that, when he had drawn near to Bethphage and Bethania, to the mount which is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
29 Y aconteció, que llegando cerca de Bethfagé, y de Bethania, al monte que se llama de las Olivas, envió dos de sus discípulos,
29 When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
30 saying: “Go into the town which is opposite you. Upon entering it, you will find the colt of a donkey, tied, on which no man has ever sat. Untie it, and lead it here.
30 Diciendo: Id á la aldea de enfrente; en la cual como entrareis, hallaréis un pollino atado, en el que ningún hombre se ha sentado jamás; desatadlo, y traedlo.
30 saying, “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.
31 And if anyone will ask you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this to him: ‘Because the Lord has requested its service.’ ”
31 Y si alguien os preguntare, ¿por qué lo desatáis? le responderéis así: Porque el Señor lo ha menester.
31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”
32 And those who were sent went out, and they found the colt standing, just as he told them.
32 Y fueron los que habían sido enviados, y hallaron como les dijo.
32 Those who were sent went away and found things just as he had told them.
33 Then, as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
33 Y desatando ellos el pollino, sus dueños les dijeron: ¿Por qué desatáis el pollino?
33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
34 So they said, “Because the Lord has need of it.”
34 Y ellos dijeron: Porque el Señor lo ha menester.
34 They said, “The Lord needs it.”
35 And they led it to Jesus. And casting their garments on the colt, they helped Jesus onto it.
35 Y trajéronlo á Jesús; y habiendo echado sus vestidos sobre el pollino, pusieron á Jesús encima.
35 Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt and sat Jesus on them.
36 Then, as he was traveling, they were laying down their garments along the way.
36 Y yendo él tendían sus capas por el camino.
36 As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.
37 And when he was now drawing near to the descent of Mount Olivet, the entire crowd of his disciples began to praise God joyfully, with a loud voice, over all the powerful works which they had seen,
37 Y como llegasen ya cerca de la bajada del monte de las Olivas, toda la multitud de los discípulos, gozándose, comenzaron á alabar á Dios á gran voz por todas las maravillas que habían visto,
37 As 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,
38 saying: “Blessed is the king who has arrived in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory on high!”
38 Diciendo: ¡Bendito el rey que viene en [el] nombre del Señor: paz en el cielo, y gloria en lo altísimo!
38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
39 And certain Pharisees within the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
39 Entonces algunos de los Fariseos de la compañía, le dijeron: Maestro, reprende á tus discípulos.
39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
40 And he said to them, “I tell you, that if these will keep silent, the stones themselves will cry out.”
40 Y él respondiendo, les dijo: Os digo que si éstos callaren, las piedras clamarán.
40 He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”
41 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:
41 Y como llegó cerca, viendo la ciudad, lloró sobre ella,
41 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
42 “If only you had known, indeed even in this your day, which things are for your peace. But now they are hidden from your eyes.
42 Diciendo: ¡Oh si también tú conocieses, á lo menos en este tu día, lo que toca á tu paz! mas ahora está encubierto de tus ojos.
42 saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
43 For the days will overtake you. And your enemies will encircle you with a valley. And they will surround you and hem you in on every side.
43 Porque vendrán días sobre ti, que tus enemigos te cercarán con baluarte, y te pondrán cerco, y de todas partes te pondrán en estrecho,
43 For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
44 And they will knock you down to the ground, with your sons who are in you. And they will not leave stone upon stone within you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
44 Y te derribarán á tierra, y á tus hijos dentro de ti; y no dejarán sobre ti piedra sobre piedra; por cuanto no conociste el tiempo de tu visitación.
44 and 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.”
45 And entering into the temple, he began to cast out those who sold in it, and those who bought,
45 Y entrando en el templo, comenzó á echar fuera á todos los que vendían y compraban en él.
45 He entered into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
46 saying to them: “It is written: ‘My house is a house of prayer.’ But you have made it into a den of robbers.”
46 Diciéndoles: Escrito está: Mi casa, casa de oración es; mas vosotros la habéis hecho cueva de ladrones.
46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”
47 And he was teaching in the temple daily. And the leaders of the priests, and the scribes, and the leaders of the people were seeking to destroy him.
47 Y enseñaba cada día en el templo; mas los príncipes de los sacerdotes, y los escribas, y los principales del pueblo procuraban matarle.
47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
48 But they could not find what to do to him. For all the people were listening to him attentively.
48 Y no hallaban qué hacerle, porque todo el pueblo estaba suspenso oyéndole.
48 They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
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Zacchaeus
A wealthy chief tax collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus, welcomed Him into his house, and promised to give half his possessions to the poor and repay fourfold.
Cited in the guide: Luke 19:2; Luke 19:5; Luke 19:8
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Jericho
Jericho guarded the eastern entrance to Canaan. The Old Testament city (Tell es-Sultan) fell to Joshua; Herodian Jericho nearby is where Jesus healed Bartimaeus and called Zacchaeus.
Cited in the guide: Joshua 6:20; Luke 19:1-10; Luke 10:30
Jerusalem
Set high in the Judean hills (~2,500 ft), Jerusalem was David's royal city, the site of the First and Second Temples, and the stage for Jesus' passion and the church's birth at Pentecost.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 5:6-9; Luke 19:41; Acts 1:8
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- 1 Joshua 6:1–27; Luke 18:35; 1 Kings 16:34; 2 Kings 2:18–22; Joshua 2:1
- 2 Luke 18:24–27
- 3 Luke 23:8; Luke 9:7–9; John 12:21
- 4 Isaiah 9:10; Luke 5:19; 1 Chronicles 27:28; Amos 7:14; 1 Kings 10:27
- 5 Revelation 3:20; John 14:23; Ezekiel 16:6; Hebrews 13:2; Ephesians 3:17
- 6 Luke 5:29; Acts 16:34; Acts 2:41; Acts 16:15; Genesis 18:6–7
- 7 Luke 15:2; Luke 7:39; Luke 7:34; Matthew 9:11; Luke 18:9–14
- 8 2 Samuel 12:6; Numbers 5:7; Luke 18:22–23; Proverbs 6:31; Leviticus 6:1–6
- 9 Galatians 3:7; Luke 13:16; Romans 4:16; Acts 16:30–32; 1 Peter 2:10
- 10 Ezekiel 34:16; Matthew 1:21; 1 Timothy 1:13–16; Luke 5:31–32; Luke 15:4–7
- 11 Luke 17:20; Acts 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:1–3
- 12 Matthew 25:14–30; Hebrews 9:28; Mark 12:1; 1 Peter 3:22; Matthew 21:38
- 13 Matthew 25:14–15; John 12:26; 1 Corinthians 12:7–11; 1 Peter 4:9–11; Romans 12:6–8
- 14 1 Samuel 8:7; Acts 7:51–52; Acts 3:14–15; Luke 19:27; John 15:18
- 15 1 Corinthians 4:1–5; Romans 14:10–12; Matthew 25:19; Matthew 18:23–35; Luke 12:48
- 16 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Timothy 4:7–8; James 2:18–26; Colossians 1:28–29
- 17 Luke 16:10; Matthew 25:21; Revelation 2:26–29; 1 Samuel 2:30; 1 Peter 1:7
- 18 Mark 4:20; Matthew 13:23; 2 Corinthians 8:12
- 19 Isaiah 3:10; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 2 John 8; 1 Corinthians 15:41–42; 2 Corinthians 9:6
- 20 Proverbs 26:13–16; Luke 19:13; James 4:17; Matthew 25:24; Luke 3:9
- 21 Matthew 25:24–25; 2 Samuel 6:9–11; 1 Samuel 6:19–21; Job 21:14–15; Exodus 20:19–20
- 22 Matthew 12:37; 2 Samuel 1:16; Job 15:5–6; Matthew 22:12; Romans 3:19
- 23 Deuteronomy 23:19–20; Exodus 22:25–27; Romans 2:4–5
- 24 Luke 12:20; Luke 16:2
- 25 2 Samuel 7:19; Luke 16:2; Isaiah 55:8–9
- 26 2 John 8; Matthew 13:12; Luke 8:18; Matthew 21:43; Mark 4:25
- 27 Psalm 21:8–9; Luke 19:14; Luke 21:22; Numbers 16:30–35; Matthew 22:7
- 28 Luke 9:51; 1 Peter 4:1; Hebrews 12:2; Psalm 40:6–8; Luke 12:50
- 29 Matthew 21:17; Acts 1:12; Matthew 21:1–11; Zechariah 14:4; Mark 11:1–11
- 30 Luke 22:8–13; Luke 19:32; 1 Samuel 10:2–9; John 14:29
- 31 Psalm 24:1; Acts 10:36; Psalm 50:10–12; Matthew 21:2–3; Mark 11:3–6
- 32 Luke 22:13
- 34 Zechariah 9:9; John 10:35; 2 Corinthians 8:9; John 12:16
- 35 John 12:14; Mark 11:7–8; Matthew 21:7; 2 Kings 9:13; Galatians 4:15–16
- 36 Matthew 21:8; 2 Kings 9:13
- 37 Ezra 3:10–13; John 12:12–13; Matthew 21:1; 2 Chronicles 29:36; Luke 18:43
- 38 Zechariah 9:9; Luke 13:35; Psalm 118:22–26; Matthew 21:9; Mark 11:9–10
- 39 Acts 4:1–2; Acts 4:16–18; John 12:19; James 4:5; Matthew 23:13
- 40 Habakkuk 2:11; Isaiah 55:12; Matthew 3:9; Psalm 96:11; Psalm 98:7–9
- 41 Luke 13:34–35; Jeremiah 13:17; Psalm 119:136; John 11:35; Jeremiah 17:16
- 42 Deuteronomy 32:29; 2 Corinthians 6:1–2; Luke 1:77–79; Hebrews 10:26–29; Isaiah 48:18
- 43 Luke 21:20–24; Isaiah 29:1–4; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 26:8; Jeremiah 6:3–6
- 44 Luke 21:6; Luke 13:34–35; Luke 19:42; 1 Peter 2:12; Matthew 23:37–38
- 45 Matthew 21:12–13; Mark 11:15–17; John 2:13–17; Deuteronomy 14:25–26
- 46 Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11; Psalm 93:5; Ezekiel 43:12; Matthew 23:13
- 47 Matthew 26:55; Mark 11:18; Mark 11:27–33; Luke 21:37–38; John 10:39
- 48 Nehemiah 8:3; Acts 16:14; Luke 20:19–20; John 7:46–49; Luke 22:2–4
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… in the animal class;--the spiritual, again, when He said, "Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God," and when He said to Zaccheus the publican, "Make haste, and come down, for to-day I must abide in thine house" --for these they declared to have belonged to the spiritual class.
For not only to God the Father, but also to His Only-begotten, who came to seek what was lost, we had been known already even so far as to be chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Why, these things, if we be silent "the stones will immediately cry out;" so plain are they, and manifest, and more lucid than the sunbeam itself.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Guard them with reverence, lest per chance the enemy despoil any who have grown slack; or lest some heretic pervert any of the truths delivered to you. For faith is like putting money into the bank, even as we have now done; but from you God requires the accounts of the deposit.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Further, when, as He drew nigh to Jerusalem, He wept over it and said, "If thou hadst known, even thou, in this thy day, the things that belong unto thy peace, but they are hidden from thee," by this word "hidden" He showed the abstruse nature of Bythus.