¹Asi Jesu wakaenda kugomo reMiorivhi.

¹And at dawn he came again to the temple,

²Zvino mangwanani-ngwanani wakauyazve kutembere, vanhu vose ndokuuya kwaari; iye ndokugara pasi akavadzidzisa.

²and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;

³Zvino vanyori nevaFarisi vakauya kwaari nemukadzi wakabatwa mukufeva, vakati vamumisa pakati,

³and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

⁴vakati kwaari: Mudzidzisi, mukadzi uyu wabatwa achifeva, pachiitiko chaipo;

⁴they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime — committing adultery,

⁵zvino Mozisi pamurairo wakatiraira kuti vakadaro vatakwe nemabwe; naizvozvo imwi munoti kudini?

⁵and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?`

⁶Asi izvozvi vakareva vachimuidza, kuti vave nechavangamupomera. Asi Jesu wakakotamira pasi, akanyora pasi nemumwe, seusina kuvaona.

⁶and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,

⁷Zvino vakati vachiramba vachimubvunza, akatasamuka akati kwavari: Usina chivi pakati penyu, ngaatange kukanda ibwe kwaari.

⁷and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you — let him first cast the stone at her;`

⁸Zvino akakotamirazve pasi, akanyora pasi.

⁸and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,

⁹Zvino ivo vanzwa, vachipiwa mhosva nehana dzavo, vakabuda umwe-umwe, kutanga kuvakuru kusvikira kune vekupedzisira; Jesu akasara ari oga, nemukadzi amire pakati.

⁹and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders — unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

¹⁰Jesu wakati atasamuka, akasaona munhu asi mukadzi, akati kwaari: Mai, varipi vaya vapomeri vako? Hakuna wakupa mhosva here?

¹⁰And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, `Woman, where are those — thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?`

¹¹Iye ndokuti: Hakuna, Ishe. Jesu ndokuti kwaari: Neni handikupi mhosva. Enda, usachitadzazve.

¹¹and she said, `No one, Sir;` and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.`

¹²Naizvozvo Jesu wakataurazve kwavari, achiti: Ini ndiri chiedza chenyika; unonditevera haangatongofambi murima, asi uchava nechiedza cheupenyu.

¹²Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.`

¹³Naizvozvo vaFarisi vakati kwaari: Iwe unopupura nezvako; uchapupu hwako hahuna chokwadi.

¹³The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;`

¹⁴Jesu akapindura akati kwavari: Kunyange ndichipupura nezvangu ini, uchapupu hwangu ndehwechokwadi; nekuti ndinoziva kwandakabva, uye kwandinoenda; asi imwi hamuzivi kwandakabva, uye kwandinoenda.

¹⁴Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself — my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye — ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

¹⁵Imwi munotonga maererano nenyama; ini handitongi munhu.

¹⁵`Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

¹⁶Asi kunyange ini ndichitonga, kutonga kwangu ndekwechokwadi; nekuti handisi ndoga, asi ini naBaba vakandituma.

¹⁶and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;

¹⁷Uye mumurairo wenyu makanyorwa kuti uchapupu hwevanhu vaviri ndehwechokwadi.

¹⁷and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;

¹⁸Ndini ndinopupura nezvangu, naBaba vakandituma vanopupura nezvangu.

¹⁸I am [one] who is testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me doth testify of me.`

¹⁹Naizvozvo vakati kwaari: Baba vako varipi? Jesu akapindura akati: Hamuzivi ini, kana Baba vangu. Dai maindiziva ini, mungadai maiziva Baba vanguwo.

¹⁹They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?` Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.`

²⁰Jesu wakataura mashoko awa muchivigiro chezvipo, achidzidzisa mutembere; asi hakuna munhu wakamubata, nekuti awa rake rakange risati rasvika.

²⁰These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

²¹Naizvozvo Jesu wakatizve kwavari: Ini ndinoenda, uye muchanditsvaka, mukafira muzvivi zvenyu; ini pandinoenda, imwi hamugoni kuuyapo.

²¹therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.`

²²Naizvozvo vaJudha vakati: Uchazviuraya kanhi? Nekuti unoti: Pandinoenda ini, imwi hamugoni kuuya?

²²The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?`

²³Zvino akati kwavari: Imwi munobva pasi, ini ndinobva kumusoro; imwi munobva panyika ino, ini handibvi panyika ino.

²³and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

²⁴Naizvozvo ndareva kwamuri kuti, muchafira muzvivi zvenyu; nekuti kana musinganditendi kuti ndini iye, muchafira muzvivi zvenyu.

²⁴I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.`

²⁵Naizvozvo vakati kwaari: Ndiwe ani? Jesu ndokuti kwavari: Ndizvo zvandakuudzaiwo kubva pakutanga.

²⁵They said, therefore, to him, `Thou — who art thou?` and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;

²⁶Ndine zvinhu zvizhinji zvekutaura nekutonga pamusoro penyu; asi wakandituma ndewechokwadi, uye izvo zvandakanzwa ini kwaari ndizvo zvandinotaura kunyika.

²⁶many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I — what things I heard from Him — these I say to the world.`

²⁷Havana kunzwisisa kuti unotaura kwavari zvaBaba.

²⁷They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;

²⁸Naizvozvo Jesu wakati kwavari: Kana masimudza Mwanakomana wemunhu, ipapo muchaziva kuti ndini iye, uye handiiti chinhu pachangu, asi baba vangu sezvavakandidzidzisa, ndinotaura zvinhu izvi.

²⁸Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am [he]; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

²⁹Zvino iye wakandituma uneni; Baba havana kundisiya ndoga, nekuti ini ndinoita nguva dzose zvinomufadza.

²⁹and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.`

³⁰Achiri kutaura izvi vazhinji vakatenda kwaari.

³⁰As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;

³¹Naizvozvo Jesu wakati kuvaJudha vakatenda kaari: Kana imwi muchirambira mushoko rangu, muri vadzidzi vangu zvirokwazvo;

³¹Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

³²uye muchaziva chokwadi, uye chokwadi chichakusunungurai.

³²and the truth shall make you free.`

³³Vakamupindura vakati: Tiri mbeu yaAbhurahamu, uye hatina kutongova varanda vemunhu; zvino iwe unoreva sei kuti muchasunungurwa?

³³They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say — Ye shall become free?`

³⁴Jesu akavapindura akati: Zvirokwazvo, zvirokwazvo, ndinoti kwamuri: Ani nani unoita chivi muranda wechivi.

³⁴Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you — Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

³⁵Uye muranda haagari mumba nekusingaperi; mwanakomana unogara nekusingaperi.

³⁵and the servant doth not remain in the house — to the age, the son doth remain — to the age;

³⁶Naizvozvo kana Mwanakomana achikusunugurai, muchava vakasununguka zvirokwazvo.

³⁶if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

³⁷Ndinoziva kuti muri mbeu yaAbhurahamu; asi munotsvaka kundiuraya, nekuti shoko rangu harina nzvimbo mamuri.

³⁷`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

³⁸Ini ndinotaura izvo zvandakaona kuna Baba vangu; naizvozvo nemwi munoita izvo zvamakaona kuna baba venyu.

³⁸I — that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father — ye do.`

³⁹Vakapindura vakati kwaari: Baba vedu ndiAbhurahamu. Jesu akati kwavari: Dai maiva vana vaAbhurahamu, maiita mabasa aAbhurahamu.

³⁹They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;` Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

⁴⁰Asi ikozvino munotsvaka kundiuraya, munhu wakakuudzai chokwadi, chandakanzwa kuna Mwari; izvo Abhurahamu haana kuzviita.

⁴⁰and now, ye seek to kill me — a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

⁴¹Imwi munoita mabasa ababa venyu. Naizvozvo vakati kwaari: Hatina kuberekwa neupombwe isu; tina Baba vamwe, Mwari.

⁴¹ye do the works of your father.` They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have — God;`

⁴²Jesu akati kwavari: Dai Mwari aiva Baba venyu, maindida; nekuti ini ndakabuda ndichibva kuna Mwari; nekuti handina kuzviuyira, asi iye wakandituma.

⁴²Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

⁴³Sei musinganzwisisi nhaurwa yangu? Nekuti hamugoni kunzwa shoko rangu.

⁴³wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

⁴⁴Imwi muri vababa venyu dhiabhorosi, munoda kuita zvishuvo zvababa venyu. Iye wakange ari mhondi kubva pakutanga, asingagari muchokwadi, nekuti maari hamuna chokwadi. Kana achitaura nhema, unotaura pachake; nekuti mutauri wenhema uye baba vadzo.

⁴⁴`Ye are of a father — the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar — also his father.

⁴⁵Asi nekuti ini ndinoreva chokwadi, hamunditendi.

⁴⁵`And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

⁴⁶Ndiani kwamuri ungandipomera pamusoro pechivi? Uye kana ndichireva chokwadi, imwi munoregerei kunditenda?

⁴⁶Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

⁴⁷Uyo unobva kuna Mwari unonzwa mashoko aMwari; naizvozvo imwi hamunzwi, nekuti hamubvi kuna Mwari.

⁴⁷he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.`

⁴⁸Naizvozvo vaJudha vakapindura vakati kwaari: Isu hatina kureva kwazvo here kuti iwe uri muSamaria, uye une dhimoni?

⁴⁸The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?`

⁴⁹Jesu akapindura, akati: Ini handina dhimoni, asi ndinokudza Baba vangu; asi imwi munondizvidza.

⁴⁹Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

⁵⁰Asi ini handitsvaki rumbidzo yangu; uriko unotsvaka nekutonga.

⁵⁰and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;

⁵¹Zvirokwazvo, zvirokwazvo, ndinoti kwamuri: Kana munhu akachengeta shoko rangu, haangatongooni rufu nekusingaperi.

⁵¹verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see — to the age.`

⁵²Naizvozvo vaJudha vakati kwaari: Ikozvino toziva kuti une dhimoni; Abhurahamu wakafa, nevaporofita, asi iwe unoti: Kana munhu akachengeta shoko rangu, haangatongoraviri rufu nekusingaperi.

⁵²The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death — to the age!

⁵³Iwe uri mukuru kuna baba vedu Abhurahamu, vakafa? Nevaporofita vakafa; iwe unozviita ani?

⁵³Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?`

⁵⁴Jesu akapindura akati: Kana ini ndichizvikudza, rukudzo rwangu harwusi chinhu; ndiBaba vangu vanondikudza, avo imwi vamunoti ndiMwari wenyu.

⁵⁴Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;

⁵⁵Uye hamuna kuvaziva; asi ini ndinovaziva, uye kana ndikati handivazivi, ndichava murevi wenhema semwi; asi ndinovaziva, ndinochengeta shoko ravo.

⁵⁵and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you — speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

⁵⁶Baba venyu Abhurahamu vakafara kuona zuva rangu, uye vakariona vakapembera.

⁵⁶Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.`

⁵⁷Naizvozvo vaJudha vakati kwaari: Hausati wava nemakore makumi mashanu, zvino wakaona Abhurahamu here?

⁵⁷The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?`

⁵⁸Jesu akati kwavari: Zvirokwazvo, zvirokwazvo, ndinoti kwamuri: Abhurahamu asati avapo, ini ndiripo.

⁵⁸Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham`s coming — I am;`

⁵⁹Ipapo vakanonga mabwe kuti vaposhere kwaari; asi Jesu wakazvivanza, akabuda mutembere, achigura nepakati pavo; akapfuura saizvozvo.

⁵⁹they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.