¹Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:

¹Zvino Jesu wakatungamirirwa neMweya kurenje kuti anoidzwa nadhiabhorosi.

²and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

²Zvino wakati atsanya mazuva makumi mana neusiku makumi mana, akazonzwa nzara.

³And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.

³Zvino muidzi wakati auya kwaari, akati: Kana uri Mwanakomana waMwari, raira kuti mabwe awa aite zvingwa.

⁴But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

⁴Asi iye wakapindura akati: Kwakanyorwa kuchinzi: Munhu haangararami nechingwa choga, asi neshoko rimwe nerimwe rinobuda mumuromo maMwari.

⁵Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple,

⁵Zvino dhiabhorosi akamutora akamuisa muguta dzvene, akamumisa pachiruvu chetembere,

⁶and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.

⁶ndokuti kwaari: Kana uri Mwanakomana waMwari, zvikandire pasi; nekuti kwakanyorwa kuti: Iye ucharaira vatumwa vake pamusoro pako, pamaoko vachakugamha, zvimwe ungagumbusa rutsoka rwako pabwe.

⁷Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.

⁷Jesu akati kwaari: Kwakanyorwa zvekare: Usaidza Ishe Mwari wako.

⁸Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,

⁸Dhiabhorosi akamuisazve pagomo refusa, akamuratidza ushe hwose hwenyika, nekubwinya kwahwo.

⁹and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage.

⁹Akati kwaari: Zvose zvinhu izvi ndichapa kwauri kana ukawira pasi ukandinamata.

¹⁰Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

¹⁰Ipapo Jesu akati kwaari: Ibva, Satani, nekuti kwakanyorwa kuchinzi: Uchanamata Ishe Mwari wako, uchashumira iye woga.

¹¹Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.

¹¹Ipapo dhiabhorosi akamusiya; zvino tarira, vatumwa vakauya vakamushandira.

¹²But having heard that John was delivered up, he departed into Galilee:

¹²Zvino Jesu wakati anzwa kuti Johwani wakumikidzwa mutirongo, akabva akaenda Garirea.

¹³and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum, which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim,

¹³Zvino wakabva Nazareta, akauya akagara muKapenaumi riri pagungwa, mumiganhu yeZebhuroni neNafitarimi;

¹⁴that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying,

¹⁴kuti zvizadziswe zvakarehwa naIsaya muporofita, achiti:

¹⁵Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of [the] sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

¹⁵Nyika yeZebhuroni nenyika yeNefitarimi, panzira yegungwa, mhiri kwaJoridhani, Garirea revahedheni;

¹⁶-- the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in [the] country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.

¹⁶vanhu vakange vagere murima vakaona chiedza chikuru; nevakange vagere panharaunda nemumumvuri werufu, chiedza chakabudira kwavari.

¹⁷From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.

¹⁷Kubvira panguva iyoyo Jesu wakatanga kuparidza nekuti: Tendeukai, nekuti ushe hwekumatenga hwaswedera.

¹⁸And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers;

¹⁸Zvino Jesu wakati achifamba-famba pagungwa reGarirea akaona vanakomana vemunhu umwe vaviri, Simoni anonzi Petro, naAndiriya munin'ina wake, vachikandira mumbure mugungwa; nekuti vakange vari varedzi.

¹⁹and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

¹⁹Akati kwavari: Nditeverei, ndigokuitai varedzi vevanhu.

²⁰And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately followed him.

²⁰Pakarepo vakasiya mimbure vakamutevera.

²¹And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;

²¹Zvino wakati apfuurira kubva ipapo akaona vamwe vaviri vanakomana vemunhu umwe, Jakobho waZebhedhi naJohwani munin'ina wake muchikepe pamwe naZebhedhi baba vavo, vachigadzira mimbure yavo, akavadana.

²²and they, having left the ship and their father, immediately followed him.

²²Pakarepo vakasiya chikepe nababa vavo vakamutevera.

²³And [Jesus] went round the whole [of] Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.

²³Jesu akapota neGarirea rose achidzidzisa mumasinagoge avo, nekuparidza evhangeri yeushe, achiporesa denda roga roga neurwere hwoga hwoga pavanhu.

²⁴And his fame went out into the whole [of] Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

²⁴Shoko rake rikabudira kuSiria yose; vakauyisa kwaari varwere vose, vakabatwa nehosha dzakasiyana-siyana nemarwadzo, nevakange vane madhimoni, nevaiva nezvipusha, nevakange vakafa mitezo; akavaporesa.

²⁵And great crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond the Jordan.

²⁵Zvino zvaunga zvikuru zvakamutevera, vaibva Garirea, neDhekapori, neJerusarema, neJudhiya, nemhiri kwaJoridhani.