This
next group of passages has to do with Zacchecus and how one might
enter the kingdom of God.
Luke
19:11-27
As they heard these things, He added and spoke a parable, because He
was close to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the
kingdom of God
should immediately appear. He
said therefore, A
certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a
kingdom, and to return.
And
he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said
to them, Occupy till I come.
But
his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will
not have this
man
to
reign over us.
And
it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the
kingdom, then he commanded those servants to be called to him, to
whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man
had gained by trading. The first came, saying, Lord, your pound has
gained ten pounds.
He
said to him, Well, done good servant: because you have been faithful
in a very little, have authority over ten cities. The second came,
saying, Lord, your pound has gained five pounds.
And
he said likewise to him, Be over five cities.
Another
came, saying, Lord, behold,
your
pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
For
I feared you, because you are an austere man: you take up that which
you lay not down, and reap that which you did not sow.
And
he said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you,
you
wicked
servant. You knew that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid
not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
Wherefore
then gave you not my money to the bank, that at my coming I might
have required my own with usury?
And
he said to them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give
to
him that has ten pounds.
(And
they said to him, Lord, he has ten pounds.) For I say to you, That to
every one which has shall be given; and from him that has not, even
what he has shall be taken away from him. But those who are my
enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring here,
and slay
them
before
me.
(parallel
passage Matthew 25:14-30)
It
has been awhile since I said anything about the many warnings hidden
in the synoptic gospels and this next group of passages has one,
which I will cover later on.
Luke
21:29-33, 34-38
He spoke to them a parable; Behold
the fig tree, and all the trees;
When they now shoot forth,
you see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh (close)
at hand. So
likewise, when you see these things come to pass, know that the
kingdom of God
is nigh at hand.
Verily
I say to you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be
fulfilled (in
Acts 2:1-12).
Heaven
and earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away.
(parallel
passages Matthew 24:32-35, Mark 13:28-31)
Take
heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with
surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, that
that day come upon you unawares.
For
as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the
whole earth.
Watch
therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before
the Son of man. In
the day time He was teaching in the temple; and at night He went out,
and abode in the mount that is called the
mount
of Olives. And all the people came early in the morning to Him in the
temple, for to hear Him.
Our
last passage is from Luke and comes after Jesus' death and covers His
burial.
Luke
23:50-56
Behold, a man named Joseph, a counselor; a good man, and a just:
(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them); he
was of
Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the
kingdom of God.
He went to Pilate, and begged (asked
for)
the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and
laid it in a sepulcher that was hewn (cut)
in stone, wherein no man before was laid. That day was the
preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came
with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and
how His body was laid. And they returned, with prepared spices and
ointments; having rested the sabbath day according to the
commandment. (parallel passages Matthew 27:57-61, Mark 15:42-47, John
19:30-42)
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