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When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
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Zakkai stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
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Yeshua said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Avraham.
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For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."
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As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Yerushalayim, and they supposed that the kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.
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He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
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He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten minas, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
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But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
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"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
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The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
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"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'