7 All the people saw this and began to complain, “Look at the kind of man Jesus stays with. Zacchaeus is a sinner!”
8 But Zacchaeus said to the Lord, “I will give half of my money to the poor. If I have cheated anyone, I will pay that person back four times more!”
9 Jesus said, “Salvation has come to this house today. This man truly belongs to the family of Abraham.
10 The Son of Man came to find lost people and save them.”
11 Jesus traveled closer to Jerusalem. Some of the people thought that God’s kingdom would appear soon.
12 Jesus knew that the people thought this, so he told them this story: “A very important man was preparing to go to a country far away to be made a king. Then he planned to return home and rule his people.
13 So the man called ten of his servants together. He gave a bag of money to each servant. He said, ‘Do business with this money till I get back.’