Zaccheus Converted and Parable of the Pounds

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

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”

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.”

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

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’