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Luke 19 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Luke 1–24 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 19

Zacchaeus, the minas, and the King’s approach to Jerusalem

Verse 19:1

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He entered Jericho and was passing through it.

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Verse 19:2

Greek–English Saints Priority

And behold, there was a man called Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and was rich.

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Verse 19:3

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He was seeking to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, since he was short in stature.

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Verse 19:4

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So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree to see Him, because He was about to pass that way.

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συκομορέα denotes a sycamore fig tree, distinct from the mulberry named in seventeen:six.

Verse 19:5

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When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay in your house.”

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Verse 19:6

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And he hurried down and welcomed Him, rejoicing.

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Verse 19:7

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When they saw this, they all grumbled, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a sinful man.”

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Verse 19:8

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But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I repay it fourfold.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Both δίδωμι and ἀποδίδωμι are present tense: ‘I give’ and ‘I repay.’ They may state a present commitment or an existing practice; the translation preserves the tense. συκοφαντέω concerns extortion or obtaining by false accusation.

Verse 19:9

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Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.

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The source addresses Zacchaeus with ‘to him’ and then speaks of him in the third person, ‘he too.’ That shift is retained.

Verse 19:10

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For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”

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Verse 19:11

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While they were hearing these things, He went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to appear immediately.

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Verse 19:12

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So He said, “A certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and return.

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βασιλεία can denote a kingdom or royal authority. ‘Receive a kingdom’ preserves the noun without naming a historical claimant not named by the parable.

Verse 19:13

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He called ten of his own slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business until I come.’

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A mina is an ancient monetary amount; ten are given to ten slaves. The later reports show one mina as each reported starting amount. The commission’s ‘until I come’ expresses the interval indicated by ἐν ᾧ ἔρχομαι.

Verse 19:14

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But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

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Verse 19:15

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And it happened that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered those slaves to whom he had given the money to be called to him, so that he might know what business they had done.

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Verse 19:16

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The first came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has gained ten minas.’

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Verse 19:17

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And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small thing, have authority over ten cities.’

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Verse 19:18

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The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, master, has made five minas.’

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Verse 19:19

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And he said to this one also, ‘You too shall be over five cities.’

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Verse 19:20

Greek–English Saints Priority

And the other came, saying, ‘Master, behold your mina, which I kept laid away in a cloth.

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σουδάριον is a small cloth, such as a face or sweat cloth, not a burial in the ground. The source calls this speaker ‘the other’ without the ordinal third.

Verse 19:21

Greek–English Saints Priority

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’

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Verse 19:22

Greek–English Saints Priority

He said to him, ‘From your own mouth I judge you, evil slave. You knew that I am a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

Textual & Reception Notes

The source’s punctuation treats the latter statement as a question. The master uses the slave’s own account as the basis of judgment; the rendering does not make the narrator independently certify that account.

Verse 19:23

Greek–English Saints Priority

Then why did you not put my money on deposit? And when I came, I would have collected it with interest.’

Textual & Reception Notes

τράπεζα literally means table, here the banker’s table or place of deposit. Interest, τόκος, is expressly mentioned.

Verse 19:24

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And he said to those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’

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Verse 19:25

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And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas!’

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Verse 19:26

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‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given; but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

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Verse 19:27

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But those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them—bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”

Textual & Reception Notes

The nobleman’s violent command belongs to his speech in the parable. It is translated without turning it into a direct command to the reader.

Verse 19:28

Greek–English Saints Priority

And after saying these things, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

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Verse 19:29

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And it happened that as He drew near Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called Olivet, He sent two of the disciples,

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Verse 19:30

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saying, “Go into the village opposite. As you enter it, you will find a colt tied, on which no person has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.

Textual & Reception Notes

The animal is called a colt, πῶλος, without a species noun in this verse. No second animal is added.

Verse 19:31

Greek–English Saints Priority

And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’”

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‘The Lord has need of it’ adopts κύριος as a reference to Jesus; the same Greek noun appears in plural for the colt’s ‘owners’ in verse thirty-three.

Verse 19:32

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Those who were sent went away and found it just as He had told them.

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Verse 19:33

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As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

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Verse 19:34

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And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”

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Verse 19:35

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They brought it to Jesus, threw their garments on the colt, and set Jesus upon it.

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Verse 19:36

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As He went, they spread their own garments on the road.

Textual & Reception Notes

NA28 reads τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῶν (SBLGNT τὰ ἱμάτια ἑαυτῶν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “spread their garments” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 19:37

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As He was already drawing near 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 they had seen,

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Verse 19:38

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saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

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The acclamation explicitly names the King and places peace ‘in heaven.’ The source contains no Hosanna here.

NA28 reads ὁ ἐρχόμενος, ὁ βασιλεὺς (SBLGNT ὁ ἐρχόμενος βασιλεὺς); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “Blessed is the One who comes, the King, in the name of the Lord” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 19:39

Greek–English Saints Priority

And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”

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Verse 19:40

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And He answered, “I tell you, if these fall silent, the stones will cry out.”

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Verse 19:41

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As He drew near and saw the city, He wept over it,

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Verse 19:42

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saying, “If only you too had known on this day the things that lead to peace—but now they have been hidden from your eyes.

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The sentence begins an unfulfilled wish or condition and turns to the present concealment without completing the expected consequence.

Verse 19:43

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For days will come upon you when your enemies will build a siege barrier around you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

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Verse 19:44

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They will dash you to the ground, and your children within you, and will not leave stone upon stone within you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Textual & Reception Notes

ἐδαφίζω means dash to the ground. Its objects include both the city and its children; that severity is retained. ‘Visitation’ renders ἐπισκοπή without adding an adjective.

Verse 19:45

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And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,

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The base names sellers only; buyers, money changers, tables, and animals are not supplied from other accounts.

Verse 19:46

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saying to them, “It is written, ‘And My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

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Verse 19:47

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And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes, and the leading men of the people, were seeking to destroy Him.

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Verse 19:48

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Yet they could not find what to do, for all the people hung upon Him as they listened.

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ἐξεκρέματο vividly means hung upon; the listening people’s absorption is retained as an English metaphor.