¹Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,

¹Ipapo kwakauya kuna Jesu vanyori nevaFarisi vachibva kuJerusarema vachiti:

²Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

²Sei vadzidzi venyu vachidarika tsika dzevakuru? Nekuti havashambi maoko avo kana vachidya chingwa.

³But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

³Asi akapindura akati kwavari: Nemhaka yei imwiwo muchidarika murairo waMwari nekuda kwetsika dzenyu?

⁴For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

⁴Nekuti Mwari wakaraira achiti: Kudza baba namai vako; uye kuti: Unotuka baba kana mai, unofanira kufa rufu.

⁵But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited:

⁵Asi imwi munoti: Ani nani unoti kuna baba kana mai: Chipi nechipi chaungabatsirwa neni chibayiro,

⁶and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

⁶naizvozvo haatongokudzi baba vake kana mai vake; naizvozvo mashayisa murairo waMwari maturo netsika dzenyu.

⁷Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,

⁷Vanyepedzeri, Isaya wakaporofita zvakanaka pamusoro penyu achiti:

⁸This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

⁸Vanhu ava vanoswedera kwandiri nemuromo wavo, vachindikudza nemiromo; asi moyo wavo uri kure neni.

⁹but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men.

⁹Asi vanondinamata pasina, vachidzidzisa dzidziso dzemirairo yevanhu.

¹⁰And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:

¹⁰Zvino akadanira chaunga kwaari, akati kwavari: Teererai munzwisise.

¹¹Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

¹¹Hazvisi zvinopinda mumuromo zvinosvibisa munhu; asi izvo zvinobuda mumuromo, ndizvo zvinosvibisa munhu.

¹²Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?

¹²Zvino vadzidzi vake vakaswedera vakati kwaari: Munoziva kuti vaFarisi vakati vachinzwa shoko iri vakagumbuka here?

¹³But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

¹³Asi wakapindura akati: Chinomera chimwe nechimwe Baba vangu vekudenga chavasina kusima chichadzurwa.

¹⁴Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.

¹⁴Varegei; vatungamiriri mapofu vemapofu; zvino kana bofu richitungamirira bofu, achawira mugomba ari maviri.

¹⁵And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.

¹⁵Petro akapindura akati kwaari: Tidudzirei mufananidzo uyu.

¹⁶But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence?

¹⁶Zvino Jesu akati: Imwiwo muchigere kunzwisisa here?

¹⁷Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?

¹⁷Nazvino hamunzwisisi here, kuti zvose zvinopinda mumuromo zvinoenda mudumbu, zvichizorashwa kunze?

¹⁸but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.

¹⁸Asi zvinhu zvinobuda mumuromo zvinobva mumoyo; izvo zvinosvibisa munhu.

¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

¹⁹Nekuti mumoyo munobuda ndangariro dzakaipa, umhondi, ufeve, upombwe, umbavha, uchapupu hwenhema, kunyomba.

²⁰these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

²⁰Izvi ndizvo zvinosvibisa munhu; asi kudya nemaoko asina kushambwa hazvisvibisi munhu.

²¹And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;

²¹Zvino Jesu wakabvapo akaenda kumiganhu yeTire neSidhoni.

²²and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried [to him] saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.

²²Zvino tarira, mukadzi muKanani wakabva kumiganhu iyoyo akadanidzira kwaari achiti: Ndinzwirei tsitsi! Ishe, Mwanakomana waDhavhidhi. Mukunda wangu wakabatwa zvakaipa nedhimoni.

²³But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to [him] and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us.

²³Asi haana kumupindura kana shoko. Vadzidzi vake ndokuuya kwaari vakamukumbirisa vachiti: Muindisei, nekuti unodanidzira shure kwedu.

²⁴But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

²⁴Asi wakapindura akati: Handina kutumwa zvimwe, kunze kwekumakwai akarashika eimba yaIsraeri.

²⁵But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.

²⁵Zvino akauya akamukotamira achiti: Ishe, ndibatsirei henyu.

²⁶But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

²⁶Asi wakapindura akati: Hazvina kunaka kutora chingwa chevana ndokukandira imbwanana.

²⁷But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

²⁷Asi iye akati: Hongu, Ishe, asi nembwanana dzinodya zvezvimedu zvinowa patafura yavatenzi vadzo.

²⁸Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith [is] great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from *that* hour.

²⁸Zvino Jesu akapindura akati kwaari: Haiwa mukadzi, rutendo rwako rukuru! Ngazvive kwauri sezvaunoda. Mukunda wake akaporeswa kubva panguva iyoyo.

²⁹And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;

²⁹Jesu ndokubva ipapo akauya pedo negungwa reGarirea; akakwira mugomo, akagara ipapo.

³⁰and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:

³⁰Zvino zvaunga zvikuru zvikauyisa kwaari, vanokamhina, mapofu, zvimumumu, zvirema, nevamwe vazhinji, vakavakanda patsoka dzaJesu; akavaporesa;

³¹so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

³¹zvekuti zvaunga zvakashamisika zvichiona zvimumumu zvichitaura, zvirema zvakagwinya, vanokamhina vachifamba, nemapofu achiona; vakarumbidza Mwari waIsraeri.

³²But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.

³²Jesu ndokudanira vadzidzi vake kwaari akati: Ndinonzwa tsitsi nechaunga, nekuti vakagara neni zvino mazuva matatu vasina chinhu chekudya, uye handingavaindisi vasina kudya, zvimwe vangaziya panzira.

³³And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?

³³Vadzidzi vake ndokuti kwaari: Tichawanepi zvingwa zvakawanda zvakadaro murenje, kuti tigutise chaunga chikuru chakadai?

³⁴And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

³⁴Jesu ndokuti kwavari: Mune zvingwa zvingani? Vakati: Zvinomwe, nehove duku shomanene.

³⁵And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;

³⁵Ndokuraira zvaunga kuti zvigare pasi pavhu.

³⁶and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

³⁶Akatora zvingwa zvinomwe nehove, akavonga, akamedura, ndokupa vadzidzi vake, vadzidzi vakapa chaunga.

³⁷And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;

³⁷Vakadya vose vakaguta; vakanonga zvimedu zvakasara, matengu manomwe azere.

³⁸but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

³⁸Zvino avo vakadya vakange vari varume zvuru zvina pasina vakadzi nevana vaduku.

³⁹And, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship and came to the borders of Magadan.

³⁹Zvino wakati aregera zvaunga zvichienda, akapinda muchikepe, akasvika kumiganhu yeMagidhara.