Zaccheus Converted

19 He entered Jericho and was passing through. ² And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; he was a chief tax collector and he was rich. ³ Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature. ⁴ So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a ^[a]sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way. ⁵ When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” ⁶ And he hurried and came down and received Him ^[b]gladly. ⁷ When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone ^[c]to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” ⁸ Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I ^[d]will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I ^[e]will give back four times as much.” ⁹ And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Parable of Money Usage

¹¹ While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. ¹² So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return. ¹³ And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten ^[f]minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this ^[g]until I come back.’ ¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent ^[h]a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ ¹⁵ When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done. ¹⁶ The first appeared, saying, ‘^[i]Master, your ^[j]mina has made ten minas more.’ ¹⁷ And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’ ¹⁸ The second came, saying, ‘Your ^[k]mina, ^[l]master, has made five minas.’ ¹⁹ And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ ²⁰ Another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief; ²¹ for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’ ²² He *said to him, ‘^[m]By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? ²³ Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’ ²⁴ Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ ²⁵ And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas already.’ ²⁶ I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

Vision of the Man with a Measuring Rod

40 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was ^[a]taken, on that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there. ² In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city. ³ So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring ^[b]rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway. ⁴ The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and give attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see.”

Measurements Relating to the Temple

⁵ And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the ^[c]temple all around, and in the man’s hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a ^[d]handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the ^[e]wall, one rod; and the height, one rod. ⁶ Then he went to the gate which faced east, went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod ^[f]in width; and the other threshold was one rod ^[g]in width. ⁷ The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate ^[h]facing inward was one rod. ⁸ Then he measured the porch of the gate ^[i]facing inward, one rod. ⁹ He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was ^[j]faced inward. ¹⁰ The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side. ¹¹ And he measured the width of the ^[k]gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. ¹² There was a ^[l]barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side. ¹³ He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the door opposite. ¹⁴ He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the courtyard. ¹⁵ From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits. ¹⁶ There were ^[m]shuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And there were windows all around inside; and on each side pillar were palm tree ornaments.

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer court, and behold, there were chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers ^[n]faced the pavement. ¹⁸ The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the ^[o]side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. ¹⁹ Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

²⁰ As for the gate of the outer court which faced the north, he measured its length and its width. ^21 [p]It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches ^[q]had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. ²² Its windows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the gate which faced toward the east; and ^[r]it was reached by seven steps, and its ^[s]porch was in front of them. ²³ The inner court had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a hundred cubits from gate to gate.

²⁴ Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to ^[t]those same measurements. ^25 [u]The gate and its porches had windows all around like ^[v]those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. ²⁶ There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side. ²⁷ The inner court had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

²⁸ Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements. ²⁹ Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And ^[w]the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁰ There were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide. ³¹ Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.

³² He brought me into the inner court toward the east. And he measured the gate according to those same measurements. ³³ Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And ^[x]the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁴ Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

³⁵ Then he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements, ³⁶ with its guardrooms, its side pillars and its porches. And ^[y]the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. ³⁷ Its side pillars were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

³⁸ A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering. ³⁹ In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering. ⁴⁰ On the outer ^[z]side, ^[aa]as one went up to the ^[ab]gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other ^[ac]side of the porch of the gate were two tables. ⁴¹ Four tables were on each side ^[ad]next to the gate; or, eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices. ⁴² For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice. ⁴³ The double ^[ae]hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed ^[af]in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

⁴⁴ From the outside to the inner gate were ^[ag]chambers for the singers in the inner court, one of which was at the ^[ah]side of the north gate, with ^[ai]its front toward the south, and one at the ^[aj]side of the ^[ak]south gate facing toward the north. ⁴⁵ He said to me, “This is the chamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who keep charge of the ^[al]temple; ⁴⁶ but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the Lord to minister to Him.” ⁴⁷ He measured the court, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the ^[am]temple.

⁴⁸ Then he brought me to the porch of the ^[an]temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side. ⁴⁹ The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.