Luke 19:1-4
ZACCHAEUS THE PUBLICAN. Jesus at Jericho:... [ Continue Reading ]
ZACCHAEUS THE PUBLICAN. Jesus at Jericho:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ENTERED AND PASSED THROUGH JERICHO.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN NAMED ZACCHAEUS, WHICH WAS THE CHIEF AMONG THE PUBLICANS, AND HE WAS RICH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SOUGHT TO SEE JESUS WHO HE WAS; AND COULD NOT FOR THE PRESS, BECAUSE HE WAS LITTLE OF STATURE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE RAN BEFORE, AND CLIMBED INTO A SYCAMORE TREE TO SEE HIM; FOR HE WAS TO PASS THAT WAY. Having healed the blind man at the city gate, Jesus continued his way into the city with the intention of passing through, for he was on His way to Jerusalem. But there came an interruption. A man called by... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN JESUS CAME TO THE PLACE, HE LOOKED UP AND SAW HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ZACCHAEUS, MAKE HASTE AND COME DOWN; FOR TODAY I MUST ABIDE AT THY HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The call of the Lord:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE MADE HASTE AND CAME DOWN, AND RECEIVED HIM JOYFULLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY SAW IT, THEY ALL MURMURED, SAYING, THAT HE WAS GONE TO BE GUEST WITH A MAN THAT IS A SINNER. Although this entire proceeding was done with. out commotion, in silence and with haste, yet Jesus, the omniscient Lord, was very well aware of all that was going on, just as He knew the name o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ZACCHAEUS STOOD AND SAID UNTO THE LORD: BEHOLD, LORD, THE HALF OF MY GOODS I GIVE TO THE POOR; AND IF I HAVE TAKEN ANYTHING FROM ANY MAN BY FALSE ACCUSATION, I RESTORE HIM FOURFOLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The pledge of Zacchaeus and the Lord's answer:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, THIS DAY IS SALVATION COME TO THIS HOUSE, FORSOMUCH AS HE ALSO IS A SON OF ABRAHAM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE SON OF MAN IS COME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Faith is bound to show itself in works of repentance and mercy. It had been no mere curiosity, but desire for salvation which had prompted Zacchaeus to seek the Savior, and now t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY HEARD THESE THINGS, HE ADDED AND SPAKE A PARABLE, BECAUSE HE WAS NIGH TO JERUSALEM, AND BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHOULD IMMEDIATELY APPEAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. The departure of the nobleman:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID THEREFORE, A CERTAIN NOBLEMAN WENT INTO AFAR COUNTRY TO RECEIVE FOR HIMSELF A KINGDOM, AND TO RETURN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CALLED HIS TEN SERVANTS, AND DELIVERED THEM TEN POUNDS, AND SAID UNTO THEM, OCCUPY TILL I COME.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HIS CITIZENS HATED HIM, AND SENT A MESSAGE AFTER HIM, SAYING, WE WILL NOT HAVE THIS MAN TO REIGN OVER US. To seek and save that which was lost, this, as Jesus had just stated, was the purpose of His coming. As the Messiah of the world He could have no other object, according to the prophecies of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, WHEN HE WAS RETURNED, HAVING RECEIVED THE KINGDOM, THEN HE COMMANDED THESE SERVANTS TO BE CALLED UNTO HIM, TO WHOM HE HAD GIVEN THE MONEY, THAT HE MIGHT KNOW HOW MUCH EVERY MAN HAD GAINED BY TRADING.... [ Continue Reading ]
The accounting:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME THE FIRST, SAYING, LORD, THY POUND HATH GAINED TEN POUNDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WELL, THOU GOOD SERVANT; BECAUSE THOU HAST BEEN FAITHFUL IN A VERY LITTLE, HAVE THOU AUTHORITY OVER TEN CITIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SECOND CAME, SAYING, LORD, THY POUND HATH GAINED FIVE POUNDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID LIKEWISE TO HIM, BE THOU ALSO OVER FIVE CITIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOTHER CAME, SAYING, LORD, BEHOLD, HERE IS THY POUND, WHICH I HAVE KEPT LAID UP IN A NAPKIN;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I FEARED THEE, BECAUSE THOU ART AN AUSTERE MAN; THOU TAKEST UP THAT THOU LAYEDST NOT DOWN, AND REAPEST THAT THOU DIDST NOT SOW. The prince pursued his intention in spite of all the hatred and enmity of his rebellious subjects; he did not change his plans in one particle; at the appointed time he... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAITH UNTO HIM, OUT OF THINE OWN MOUTH WILL I JUDGE THEE, THOU WICKED SERVANT. THOU KNEWEST THAT I WAS AN AUSTERE MAN, TAKING UP THAT I LAID NOT DOWN, AND REAPING THAT I DID NOT SOW;... [ Continue Reading ]
The punishment:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, THEN, GAVEST NOT THOU MY MONEY INTO THE BANK, THAT AT MY COMING I MIGHT HAVE REQUIRED MINE OWN WITH USURY?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM THAT STOOD BY, TAKE FROM HIM THE POUND, AND GIVE IT TO HIM THAT HATH TEN POUNDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
(And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT UNTO EVERY ONE WHICH HATH SHALL BE GIVEN; AND FROM HIM THAT HATH NOT, EVEN THAT HE HATH SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOSE MINE ENEMIES WHICH WOULD NOT THAT I SHOULD REIGN OVER THEM BRING HITHER, AND SLAY THEM BEFORE ME. The useless servant was condemned by his own. words; by them he was convicted as lazy and wicked. If he had that honest conviction that the master was actually so strict and exacting that he e... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN, HE WENT BEFORE, ASCENDING UP TO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. Christ commissions two disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE WAS COME NIGH TO BETHPHAGE AND BETHANY, AT THE MOUNT CALLED THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, HE SENT TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, GO YE INTO THE VILLAGE OVER AGAINST YOU, IN THE WHICH AT YOUR ENTERING YE SHALL FIND A COLT TIED, WHEREON YET NEVER MAN SAT; LOOSE HIM, AND BRING HIM HITHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF ANY MAN ASK YOU, WHY DO YE LOOSE HIM? THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO HIM, BECAUSE THE LORD HATH NEED OF HIM. See Matthew 21:1; Mark 11:1. Not so strongly as Mark, Luke 10:32, and yet with considerable emphasis, Luke places Jesus at the head of the little company that was going up to Jerusalem. He was... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT WERE SENT WENT THEIR WAY, AND FOUND EVEN AS HE HAD SAID UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus ready for the entry:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY WERE LOOSING THE COLT, THE OWNERS THEREOF SAID UNTO THEM, WHY LOOSE YE THE COLT?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SAID, THE LORD HATH NEED OF HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JESUS; AND THEY CAST THEIR GARMENTS UPON THE COLT, AND THEY SET JESUS THEREON. What the omniscience of Jesus had seen at a distance, the disciples found true as they came to the indicated spot. And when they were loosing the colt from the post or doorway where it was tied, th... [ Continue Reading ]
The joyful reception by the people:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS HE WENT, THEY SPREAD THEIR CLOTHES IN THE WAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME NIGH, EVEN NOW 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 THAT THEY HAD SEEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOME OF THE PHARISEES FROM AMONG THE MULTITUDE SAID UNTO HIM, MASTER, REBUKE THY DISCIPLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, I TELL YOU THAT, IF THESE SHOULD HOLD THEIR PEACE, THE STONES WOULD IMMEDIATELY CRY OUT. As a snowball which begins to roll at the top of a mountain soon grows to a mighty avalanche, sweeping everything before it, so the enthusiasm that took hold of the disciples... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME NEAR, HE BEHELD THE CITY, AND WEPT OVER IT,... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's lament over Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, IF THOU HADST KNOWN, EVEN THOU, AT LEAST IN THIS THY DAY, THE THINGS WHICH BELONG UNTO THY PEACE! BUT NOW THEY ARE HID FROM THINE EYES.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE DAYS SHALL COME UPON THEE THAT THINE ENEMIES SHALL CAST A TRENCH ABOUT THEE, AND COMPASS THEE ROUND, AND KEEP THEE IN ON EVERY SIDE,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALL LAY THEE EVEN WITH THE GROUND AND THY CHILDREN WITHIN THEE; AND THEY SHALL NOT LEAVE IN THEE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER, BECAUSE THOU KNEWEST NOT THE TIME OF THY VISITATION. Jesus continued on His way, accompanied by shouts of "Hosanna!" and songs of praise, until He reached a point opposite t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE, AND BEGAN TO CAST OUT THEM THAT SOLD THEREIN, AND THEM THAT BOUGHT,... [ Continue Reading ]
The purging of the Temple:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING UNTO THEM, IT IS WRITTEN, MY HOUSE IS THE HOUSE OF PRAYER; BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TAUGHT DAILY IN THE TEMPLE. BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES AND THE CHIEF OF THE PEOPLE SOUGHT TO DESTROY HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND COULD NOT FIND WHAT THEY MIGHT DO; FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WERE VERY ATTENTIVE TO HEAR HIM. It was on the next morning that Jesus carried out a plan that had occurred to Him the day before, when He had seen the abuses to which the Temple had been put by the people. Since it would have been very incon... [ Continue Reading ]