This passage from Luke 19 begins with Jesus passing through Jericho, where he encounters Zacchaeus, a wealthy chief tax collector who climbs a sycamore-fig tree to see Jesus1 .... Jesus calls Zacchaeus down, says he must stay at his house, and Zacchaeus welcomes him gladly, prompting murmurs from the people who considered him a sinner1 . Zacchaeus declares he will give half his possessions to the poor and repay four times the amount to anyone he has cheated1 . Jesus responds that salvation has come to Zacchaeus's house because he too is a son of Abraham, explaining that the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost1 .The passage then recounts the Parable of the Ten Minas, where a man of noble birth gives ten minas to ten servants and instructs them to put the money to work until his return as king1 . Upon his return, he rewards the servants who have increased the value of their mina and takes away the mina from the servant who hid it, giving it to the one with ten1 . The parable also includes the fate of those who rejected the noble man as king, ordering them to be killed1 .Following this, Jesus continues towards Jerusalem and sends two disciples to fetch a colt that has never been ridden, telling them to say "The Lord needs it" if questioned1 . As Jesus approaches Jerusalem on the colt, the whole crowd of disciples joyfully praise God, proclaiming, "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!"1 . Some Pharisees tell Jesus to rebuke his disciples, but he replies that if they kept quiet, the stones would cry out1 . Approaching Jerusalem, Jesus weeps over the city, prophesying its destruction because it did not recognise the time of God's coming1 .Finally, Jesus enters the temple courts and drives out those selling there, stating that the temple should be a house of prayer but they have made it a den of robbers1 . He teaches daily at the temple, while the chief priests, teachers of the law, and leaders sought to kill him but could not because the people were attentive to his teaching1 .
