New Testament in a Year

19 And having entered, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was passing through Yericho.

² And, hinei, a man by name Zakkai was there and he was a chief moches (tax collector) and he was an oisher (rich man).

³ And he was seeking to catch a look at Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach and was not able to do so, because of the multitude, and because he was komah (short of stature).

⁴ And having run ahead to the front, he climbed up onto an etz (tree), a sycamore, that he might see Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, because by that derech (way) he was about to pass by. [MELACHIM ALEF 10:27, DIVREY HAYAMIM ALEF 27:28, YESHAYAH 9:10]

⁵ And as he came to the place, having looked up, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Zakkai, hurry and come down, for hayom (today) in your bais (house) it is necessary for me to remain.

⁶ And having hurried, Zakkai came down and welcomed with Kabbalas HaMalchus (accepting his sovereignty as king) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach with simcha (joy).

⁷ And all, having seen this, were beginning to kvetch (complain), saying, With a choteh (sinner) he entered to rest?

⁸ And Zakkai stood there and said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu: Hinei, half of my possessions, Adoni, I give as tzedakah (contribution to charity) to the aniyim, and if from someone I defrauded of anything, I am paying back arbatayim (four times). [Ex 22:1, Lv 6:4,5; Num 5:7; 2Sm 12:6; Ezek 33:14,15]

⁹ And he said to him, Hayom (Today) Yeshu’at Eloheinu has come to this bais, because he also is a Ben Avraham.

¹⁰ For the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) came to seek and to save the lost. [Ezek 34:12,16]

¹¹ Now as they were hearing these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach added a mashal (parable), because he was near to Yerushalayim and they had the havamina (assumption) that the Malchut Hashem was about to appear immediately.

¹² Then Moshiach said, A certain man of noble birth traveled to a distant country to get for himself royal power for his malchut and to return.

¹³ And having summoned ten avadim (servants) of his, he gave them ten minas and he said to them, Conduct business until I come.

¹⁴ But his subjects were hating the man of noble birth and they sent a delegation after him saying, We do not want this one to rule over us.

¹⁵ And it came about when he returned, having received the royal power of his malchut, he summoned to his presence these avadim to whom he had given the kesef, that he might have daas of what they had gained by trading.

¹⁶ And the rishon (first) came, saying, With your mina, Adoni, ten minas more were gained.

¹⁷ Yafeh! Eved tov! Because you have been ne’eman (faithful) in a very small thing, have shlita (authority) over ten towns.[MISHLE 27:18]

¹⁸ And the sheni (second) came saying, Your mina, Adoni, made five minas.

¹⁹ And the man of noble birth said also to this one, And you have shlita (authority) over five towns.

²⁰ And the other came saying, Adoni, hinei! Your mina which I had put away in a tichel (kerchief).

²¹ For I was fearing you, because you are a big machmir (stickler), you take what you did not deposit, and you reap what you did not sow.

²² He says to him, From your own mouth I will judge you, eved rasha (bad servant). You had daas that I am a big machmir (stickler), taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

²³ Why then did you not put my kesef on deposit? Then when I came I would have collected ribit (interest).

²⁴ And to the ones having stood nearby he said, Take from him the mina and give it to the one having ten minas.

²⁵ And they said to him, Adoneinu, he has ten minas!

²⁶ I say to you, that to everyone having, more will be given, but from the one not having, even what he has will be taken away.

²⁷ But these oyevim of mine, the ones refusing me the Kabbalas HaMalchus (refusing my sovereignty as king, cf 70 C.E.) over them, bring here and execute them before me.