Luke 19 Free Bible Version
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1 Jesus entered Jericho and walked through the town.
1 Y HABIENDO entrado [Jesús], iba pasando por Jericó;
1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
2 A man was there named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector. He was very rich.
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 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he couldn't see over the crowd.
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 So he ran ahead, and climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus as he passed by.
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 When Jesus got there, he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly! I need to stay at your house today.”
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 Zacchaeus climbed down quickly and was so happy to welcome Jesus to his home.
6 Entonces él descendió apriesa, y le recibió gozoso.
6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
7 When the people saw this they all complained, “He's gone to stay with such a sinner!”
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 stood up and said before the Lord, “Look, I'm giving half of everything I own to the poor, and if I've cheated anybody, I'll pay them back four times as much!”
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 In response Jesus said, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man has shown he is a son of Abraham too.
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 came to search for and save those who are 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 While they were still paying attention, Jesus told them a story for they were close to Jerusalem and the people thought that God's kingdom was going to become a reality right away.
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 “Once there was a nobleman who left home to go to a distant country to be crowned king there, and then 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 He called ten of his servants, divided money equally among them, and told them, ‘Invest this money 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 people hated him, and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We won't have this man as king 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 After he had been crowned king he returned. He ordered his servants brought to him. He wanted to know what profit they had made by investing the money he had given them.
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 The first servant came in and said, ‘Lord, your money has earned ten times as much.’
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 ‘Well done! You're a good servant,’ said the king. ‘Since you proved yourself trustworthy in a very small matter, I'm placing you in charge of 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 The second servant came in and said, ‘Lord, your money has earned five times as much.’
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 ‘I'm placing you in charge of five cities,’ said the king.
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 Another servant came in and said, ‘Lord, look, here's your money back. I kept it safe, wrapped up 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 I was afraid of you because you're a hard man. You take what doesn't belong to you, and you harvest what you didn't plant.’
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 ‘I'll judge you by your own words,’ the king replied. ‘You know I'm a hard man, who as you say, takes what doesn't belong to me, and I harvest what I didn't plant.
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 Why then didn't you deposit my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have had my money 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 The king told those who were standing beside him, ‘Take the money away from him, and give it to the one who made ten times as much.’
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 ‘But master, he already has ten times as much,’ they replied.
25 Y ellos le dijeron: Señor, tiene diez minas.
25 “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’
26 The king said, ‘I tell you, to those who have, more will be given; but those who do not have, even what they have will be taken away from them.
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 And as for my enemies who didn't want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in front of 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 After he'd finished telling them this story, Jesus left for Jerusalem, walking on ahead.
28 Y dicho esto, iba delante subiendo á Jerusalem.
28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples, telling them:
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 “Go to the village farther on. As you enter it you'll find a colt tied up that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring 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 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”
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 So the two disciples went and found that everything was just as Jesus had said.
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 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked 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 The disciples replied, “The Lord needs it.”
34 Y ellos dijeron: Porque el Señor lo ha menester.
34 They said, “The Lord needs it.”
35 They brought the colt to Jesus. Then they threw their cloaks over it, and sat Jesus on its back.
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 As he rode along, people spread their cloaks on the road.
36 Y yendo él tendían sus capas por el camino.
36 As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.
37 As he approached Jerusalem, right where the road goes down from the Mount of Olives, the crowd of disciples all began shouting joyful praises to God at the top of their voices for all the miracles 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 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord,” they shouted. “Peace in heaven and glory in highest heaven.”
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 Some of the Pharisees who were in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, stop your disciples from saying that.”
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 But Jesus replied, “I tell you that if they keep quiet then the stones will shout!”
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 But as he got closer, he saw the city and wept over it.
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 “I really wish today that you, even you, had known the path that leads to peace!” he said. “But now it's 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 The time is coming upon you when your enemies will besiege you, building ramps to attack you, encircling you and closing you in from 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 They will smash you to the ground, you and your children within you. They won't leave one stone on another within you, for you refused to accept salvation when it came to you.”
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 Jesus entered the Temple and began driving out all the people trading there.
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 He told them, “Scriptures state that my house will be a house of prayer, but you've turned it into a den of thieves.”
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 He was teaching in the Temple every day. The chief priests, the religious teachers, and the leaders of the people were trying to kill 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 couldn't find a way to do it because everyone appreciated him, hanging on his every word.
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.
People & places in this chapter
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People
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
Places
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
Cross references (47)
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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.