8. 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.”
9. Yeshua said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
10. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
11. As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
12. He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
13. He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’
14. But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
15. “When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
16. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
17. “He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
18. “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’
19. “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
20. Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,