Luca 19,1-10
1 Entrato in Gerico, attraversava la città.
2 Ed ecco un uomo di nome Zaccheo, capo dei pubblicani e ricco,
3 cercava di vedere quale fosse Gesù, ma non gli riusciva a causa della folla, poiché era piccolo di statura.
4 Allora corse avanti e, per poterlo vedere, salì su un sicomoro, poiché doveva passare di là.
5 Quando giunse sul luogo, Gesù alzò lo sguardo e gli disse: «Zaccheo, scendi subito, perché oggi devo fermarmi a casa tua».
6 In fretta scese e lo accolse pieno di gioia.
7 Vedendo ciò, tutti mormoravano: «È andato ad alloggiare da un peccatore!».
8 Ma Zaccheo, alzatosi, disse al Signore: «Ecco, Signore, io do la metà dei miei beni ai poveri; e se ho frodato qualcuno, restituisco quattro volte tanto».
9 Gesù gli rispose: «Oggi la salvezza è entrata in questa casa, perché anch'egli è figlio di Abramo;
10 il Figlio dell'uomo infatti è venuto a cercare e a salvare ciò che era perduto».
 

9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 
2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.
3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 
5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 
7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 
​8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 
​12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy[a] met him. They stood at a distance 
13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 
16 He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.
17 Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?
18 Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”
19 Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”