¹And when he had entered, he was passing through Jericho.

²And behold, a man being called by name Zacchaeus; and he himself was a chief tax collector, and he himself was rich.

³And he was seeking to see who Jesus is, and he was not able because of the crowd, because he was small in stature.

⁴And when he had run on to the front, he went up into a sycamore-fig tree so that he may see him, for he was soon to pass through that way.

⁵And as he came to the place, when he had looked up, Jesus saw him and said to him: Zacchaeus, having hurried, come down; for today it behooves me to stay in your house.

⁶And when he had hurried, he came down and received him rejoicing.

⁷And when they had seen it, all were grumbling, saying that he has entered to stay with a sinful man.

⁸Then having stood, Zacchaeus said to the Lord: Behold, the half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.

⁹Then Jesus said to him that today salvation has come to this house, because he himself also is a son of Abraham;

¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to rescue that which had been lost.

¹¹Now when they are hearing these things, when he had proceeded, he spoke a parable, because he is near to Jerusalem and they are thinking that the kingdom of God is about to appear immediately.

¹²Therefore he said: A certain man of noble birth proceeded to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

¹³Then when he had called his own ten slaves, he gave to them ten minas and said to them: trade in that until I come back.

¹⁴But his citizens were hating him and sent a delegation after him, saying: We are not willing for this man to reign over us.

¹⁵And it came to pass on his returning, having received the kingdom, that he directed these slaves to be called to him, to whom he had given the money, in order that he may know who had gained what by trading.

¹⁶Then the first came up, saying: Lord, your mina has produced ten more minas.

¹⁷And he said to him: well done, good slave! Because you were faithful in very little, be having authority over ten cities.

¹⁸And the second came, saying: your mina, lord, has made five minas.

¹⁹Then he said also to this one: And you yourself, be over five cities.

²⁰And the another came, saying: lord, behold your mina, which I was keeping lying in a cloth;

²¹For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man; you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.

²²Now he says to him: Out of your mouth I will judge you, evil slave. You knew that I myself am a harsh man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow;

²³Then why did you not give my money to the bank, and I myself, having come, would have collected it with interest?

²⁴And to those who have stood by, he said: take the mina from him and give it to the one having the ten minas.

²⁵And they said to him: Master, he has ten minas.

²⁶For I say to you that to everyone who is having, it will be given; however, from the one not having, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

²⁷Furthermore, these my enemies, those not having been willing for me to reign over them, bring here and slay them before me.

²⁸And when he had said these things, he was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

²⁹And it came to pass, as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany toward the mount which is being called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

³⁰saying: go into the village ahead, in which, entering, you will find a colt tied, on which no one of men has ever yet sat; and having untied it, bring it.

³¹And if anyone shall ask you: why do you untie it? thus will you say to him: Because its Lord has need.

³²Then when those sent had departed, they found it even as he had said to them.

³³Then when they are untying the colt, its masters said to them: Why do you untie the colt?

³⁴And they said: that its Lord has need.

³⁵And they led it to Jesus, and when they had cast their garments on the colt, they put Jesus on it.

³⁶Then when he is going, they were spreading their garments on the road.

³⁷Then when he is drawing near already at the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God in a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

³⁸saying: Blessed is the King coming in the name of the Lord; in heaven wholeness, and glory in the highest.

³⁹And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him: Teacher, rebuke your disciples.

⁴⁰And he answered and said to them: I say to you that if these will be silent, the stones will cry out.

⁴¹And as he drew near, when he had seen the city, he wept over it,

⁴²saying that If you had known, indeed in your day, even this, you yourself, the things for your wholeness; however now they are hidden from your eyes.

⁴³For days will come upon you that your enemies will cast around you a barricade, and they will surround you and hem you in on every side,

⁴⁴and will level you to the ground, and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, because you did not know the season of your visitation.

⁴⁵And when he had entered into the temple, he began to cast out those selling in it and buying,

⁴⁶saying to them: It has been written: And my house will be a house of prayer; however you yourselves made it a den of robbers.

⁴⁷And he was teaching every day in the temple; however the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him, and the foremost of the people,

⁴⁸and they were not finding what they may do; for all the people were hanging on his words, listening.