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When he came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zakkai! Hurry! Come down, because I have to stay at your house today!"
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He climbed down as fast as he could and welcomed Yeshua joyfully.
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Everyone who saw it began muttering, "He has gone to be the house-guest of a sinner."
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But Zakkai stood there and said to the Lord, "Here, Lord, I am giving half of all I own to the poor; and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay him back four times as much."
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Yeshua said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, inasmuch as this man too is a son of Avraham.
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For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost."
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While they were listening to this, Yeshua went on to tell a parable, because he was near Yerushalayim, and the people supposed that the Kingdom of God was about to appear at any moment.
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Therefore he said, "A nobleman went to a country far away to have himself crowned king and then return.
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Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten manim [a maneh is about three months' wages] and said to them, `Do business with this while I'm away.'
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But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, `We don't want this man to rule over us.'
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"However, he returned, having been made king, and sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned in his business dealings.