Luke 19

Luke 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records Jesus' arrival in Jericho and his meeting with Zacchaeus, the parable of the minas and Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.

Zacchaeus (Ζακχαῖος, ; , "pure", "innocent" ) of Jericho was wealthy, a chief tax collector, mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke. A descendant of Abraham, Zacchaeus is the epitome of someone meeting Jesus' in his earthly mission to bring salvation to the lost. Tax collectors were despised as traitors (working for the Roman Empire, not for their Jewish community), and as being corrupt. This encounter between Jesus and Zacchaeus "is a story of divine grace and the call to holiness". A Methodist/Roman Catholic ecumenical document reflects that

When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. In many translations, Jesus went on "ahead", i. e. "in front of" his disciples. Erasmus, Kypke, Kuinoel, Heinrich Ewald and others translate as "He went forwards", i. e. he pursued his journey,

As with Luke's earlier text at Luke 13:34 35 (NKJV), Jesus contemplates the significance and fate of Jerusalem, the holy city. This passage is rich in Old Testament allusions.

[Jesus] Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. In expelling the dealers from the Temple, Jesus' words draw from both Isaiah 56:7 (a house of prayer for all nations) and Jeremiah 7:11 (a den of thieves). Matthew 21:13 and Mark 11:17 have the same quotations.

And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him. Luke reiterates at and that Jesus taught in the Temple on a daily basis. Anglican churchman Henry Alford suggests that this "general description" of Jesus' engagement in the temple is fittingly located at the end of the chapter which concludes his "last journey to Jerusalem". Alexander Maclaren refers to his "calm courage" in continuously teaching there.

and [they] were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him. Literally, the people “were hanging from him”, i. e. hung on His lips. The Jerusalem Bible translates this as "the people as a whole hung on his words".