[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Luke Overview]] [[Luke 18]] [[Luke 20]] # Luke 19 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) ### Jesus and Zacchaeus **Principle**: Jesus accepts you, but not your sin. **Principle**: Jesus plays the long game. [[#Verse 01.]] Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it.  [[#Verse 02.]] Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.  [[#Verse 03.]] He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.  [[#Verse 04.]] So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.  [[#Verse 05.]] And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today.”  [[#Verse 06.]] So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully.  [[#Verse 07.]] And when the people saw it, they all complained, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”  [[#Verse 08.]] But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!”  [[#Verse 09.]] Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!  [[#Verse 10.]] For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” ### The Parable of the Ten Minas **Principle**: Goal = faithfulness. [[#Verse 11.]] While the people were listening to these things, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.  [[#Verse 12.]] Therefore he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.  [[#Verse 13.]] And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’  [[#Verse 14.]] But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’  [[#Verse 15.]] When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had earned by trading. [[#Verse 16.]] So the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.’  [[#Verse 17.]] And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’  [[#Verse 18.]] Then the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’  [[#Verse 19.]] So the king said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’  [[#Verse 20.]] Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.  [[#Verse 21.]] For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’  [[#Verse 22.]] The king said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?  [[#Verse 23.]] Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’  [[#Verse 24.]] And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’  [[#Verse 25.]] But they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’  [[#Verse 26.]] ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.  [[#Verse 27.]] But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’” ### The Triumphal Entry [[Matthew 21]], [[Mark 11]], [[John 12]] **Principle**: The Lord prepares the way for Himself. **Principle**: Jesus victory parade. [[#Verse 28.]] After Jesus had said this, he continued on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.  [[#Verse 29.]] Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,  [[#Verse 30.]] telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. When you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.  [[#Verse 31.]] If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’” [[#Verse 32.]] So those who were sent ahead found it exactly as he had told them.  [[#Verse 33.]] As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying that colt?”  [[#Verse 34.]] They replied, “The Lord needs it.”  [[#Verse 35.]] Then they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt, and had Jesus get on it.  [[#Verse 36.]] As he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.  [[#Verse 37.]] As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:  [[#Verse 38.]] “**_Blessed is the king_** **_who comes in the name of the Lord!_** Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” [[Psalm 118]], [[Job 16]] [[#Verse 39.]] But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” [[#Verse 40.]] He answered, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!” ### Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment **Principle**: Jesus doesn't desire judgment, but doesn't stop us when we go that way. [[#Verse 41.]] Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,  [[#Verse 42.]] saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.  [[#Verse 43.]] For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.  [[#Verse 44.]] They will demolish you—you and your children within your walls—and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” ### Cleansing the Temple **Principle**: Prayer should be primary. [[#Verse 45.]] Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,  [[#Verse 46.]] saying to them, “It is written, ‘**_My house will be a house of prayer_**,’ but you have turned it into **_a den_** **_of robbers_**!” [[Jeremiah 07]] [[#Verse 47.]] Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,  [[#Verse 48.]] but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words. ## 📖 ==Verse-by-Verse Commentary== **The Good Samaritan Parable**. ***Luke 10:27-37***. - The road to Jericho- - 17 miles from Jericho to Jerusalem. - Treacherous road. No one would have been surprised that someone was robbed on this road. - Priests- While Jesus does not say why the priest is on the road, many priests would travel this road on their way to serve the temple. There were so many priests during this time, they took turns. This would have meant he would have not wanted to take the time, because he was going to serve. If the man was dead and he helped, he would have been ceremonially unclean and not been able to serve. - Levites (Temple assistants)- blue collar worker that helped take care of the temple. This would have been someone closer to the place of the person in the ditch. He also did not want to get involved. - Samaritan- Samaritans and Jews hated each other. Samaritans were people who stayed in the land after Israel was overthrown by Assyria. They intermarried and are now seen as half-breeds. The audience would have seen this person as the ultimate bad guy and may have assumed he would have come to finish the guy off. The fact he came to help would have been shocking. - How to help people according to the Samaritan template- - 1- See people. - 2- Do what you can. - 3- Provide next steps. Jesus challenges the crowd to flip the question. Instead of going into the world to find find a neighbor, we should go into the world to be a neighbor. ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application **Today, I can apply this chapter by:** - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 %%Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional **Reflection** - coming soon %%Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..."%% ### Resources Good Samaritan Further Study: - [Are We Missing the Point?](https://medium.com/koinonia/are-we-missing-the-main-point-of-the-good-samaritan-story-94db4f308554) - [Got Questions: The Good Samaritan](https://www.gotquestions.org/parable-Good-Samaritan.html) - [Going Deeper in the Parable of the Samaritan](https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2021/going-deeper-in-the-parable-of-the-good-samaritan) - [Commentary on Luke 10:25-42](https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/narrative-lectionary/good-samaritan/commentary-on-luke-1025-42) - [The Spurgeon Center](https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-good-samaritan/#flipbook/) --- ##### 📂 Internal Links [[Series_TheWay_Part2-We_See_People]] - Date: 8.2025. Use Z story.