¹Zvino panguva iyo kwakange kune vamwe vakamuudza zvevaGarirea, ropa ravo Pirato raakange avhenganisa nezvibayiro zvavo.

¹And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

²Zvino Jesu achipindura wakati kwavari: Munofunga kuti vaGarirea avo vaiva vatadzi kupfuura vaGarirea vose here, nokuti vakatambudzika zvinhu zvakadai?

²and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

³Kwete, ndinoti kwamuri: Asi kana musingatendeuki, mose muchaparara saizvozvo.

³No — I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

⁴Kana vaya gumi nevasere, rusvingo parwakawira pamusoro pavo muSiroami, rwukavauraya, munofunga kuti ivo vakange vari vadariki kukunda vanhu vose vaigara muJerusarema here?

⁴`Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

⁵Kwete, ndinoti kwamuri: Asi kana musingatendeuki, mose muchaparara saizvozvo.

⁵No — I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.`

⁶Zvino wakataura mufananidzo uyu akati: Umwe wakange ane muonde, wakange wakasimwa mumunda wake wemizambiringa; akasvika achitsvaka chibereko kwauri, asi wakashaiwa.

⁶And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

⁷Zvino wakati kumurimi wemunda wemizambiringa: Tarira, makore matatu ndichiuya ndichitsvaka chibereko pamuonde uyu, ndikashaiwa; uteme, unourayirei kunyange ivhu?

⁷and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

⁸Iye achipindura wakati kwaari: Ishe, muregei gore rinowo, kusvikira nditimbe ndichiupoteredza, nekuuisa mupfudze;

⁸`And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

⁹zvino kana ukabereka chibereko, zvakanaka; asi kana zvikasadaro, shure kweizvozvo mungazoutema henyu.

⁹and if indeed it may bear fruit —; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.`

¹⁰Zvino waiva achidzidzisa mune rimwe remasinagoge nesabata;

¹⁰And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

¹¹zvino tarira, kwaiva kune mukadzi waiva nemweya weundonda makore gumi nemasere, wakange akakombama musana, asingatongogoni kutasamuka.

¹¹and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,

¹²Zvino Jesu wakati achimuona, akamudanira kwaari, akati kwaari: Mukadzi, wasunungurwa paundonda hwako.

¹²and Jesus having seen her, did call [her] near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;`

¹³Ndokuisa maoko pamusoro pake; pakarepo akatasanudzwa, akarumbidza Mwari.

¹³and he laid on her [his] hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.

¹⁴Asi mutungamiriri wesinagoge wakapindura akatsamwa nekuti Jesu wakaporesa nesabata, akati kuchaunga: Pane mazuva matanhatu anofanira kubatwa nawo; naizvozvo uyai naiwayo muporeswe, asi kwete nemusi wesabata.

¹⁴And the chief of the synagogue answering — much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed — said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth [us] to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.`

¹⁵Naizvozvo Ishe wakamupindura, akati: Munyepedzeri, umwe neumwe wenyu haangasununguri nzombe yake kana mbongoro pachidyiro nesabata, akaitungamidza kunoimwisa here?

¹⁵Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water [it]?

¹⁶Zvino uyu, ari mukunda waAbhurahamu, Satani waakange akasunga, tarira, makore gumi nemasere, hazvina kufanira kuti asunungurwe pachisungo ichi nesabata here?

¹⁶and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?`

¹⁷Zvino achireva zvinhu izvi, vapikisi vake vose vakanyadziswa; asi chaunga chose chakafara nezvinhu zvose zvinorumbidzwa zvakaitwa naye.

¹⁷And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.

¹⁸Zvino akati: Ushe hwaMwari hwakaita sei? Uye ndichahwufananidza nei?

¹⁸And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

¹⁹Hwakaita setsanga yemasitadha, munhu yaakatora akakanda mubindu rake; ikakura, ikaita muti mukuru, neshiri dzekudenga dzikavaka matendere pamatavi awo.

¹⁹It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.`

²⁰Akatizve: Ndichahwufananidza nei ushe hwaMwari?

²⁰And again he said, `To what shall I liken the reign of God?

²¹Hwakaita sembiriso, mukadzi yaakatora akaiisa muzviyero zvitatu zveupfu, kusvikira hwose hwaviriswa.

²¹It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.`

²²Zvino wakafamba achipfuura mumaguta nemisha achidzidzisa, ari munzira kuenda kuJerusarema.

²²And he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;

²³Umwe ndokuti kwaari: Ishe, vachaponeswa vashoma here? Akati kwavari:

²³and a certain one said to him, `Sir, are those saved few?` and he said unto them,

²⁴Rwisai kupinda nesuwo rakamanikana; nekuti vazhinji, ndinoti kwamuri, vachatsvaka kupinda, asi havangagoni.

²⁴`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

²⁵Shure kwekunge mwene weimba asimuka avhara mukova, zvino mukatanga kumira kunze nekugogodza pamukova, muchiti: Ishe, Ishe, tizarurirei; iye agopindura achiti kwamuri: Handikuziviyi kwamunobva.

²⁵from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

²⁶Ipapo muchatanga kuti: Takadya nekumwa pamberi penyu, uye makadzidzisa panzira dzekwedu.

²⁶then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;

²⁷Asi uchati: Ndinoti kwamuri: Handikuziviyi kwamunobva; ibvai kwandiri imwi mose vaiti vezvakaipa.

²⁷and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

²⁸Apo pachava nekuchema nekugeda-geda kwemeno, kana moona Abhurahamu naIsaka naJakobho nevaporofita vose muushe hwaMwari, asi imwi marasirwa kunze.

²⁸`There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

²⁹Uye vachabva kumabvazuva nemavirira, uye kubva kumaodzanyemba nechamhembe, vachagara pakudya muushe hwaMwari.

²⁹and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God,

³⁰Zvino tarirai, varipo vekupedzisira vachava vekutanga, uye varipo vekutanga vachava vekupedzisira.

³⁰and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.`

³¹Nezuva iroro kwakasvika vamwe vaFarisi, vachiti kwaari: Budai mubve pano, nekuti Herodhe unoda kukuurayai.

³¹On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;`

³²Akati kwavari: Endai, munoudza gava iro, muti: Tarira, ndinobudisa madhimoni nekuita kuporesa nhasi namangwana, neretatu ndinopedzeredza.

³²and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am being perfected;

³³Asi zvakafanira kuti ndifambe nhasi namangwana nerinotevera, nekuti hazvigoneki kuti muporofita apararire kunze kweJerusarema.

³³but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the [day] following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴Jerusarema, Jerusarema, iwe unouraya vaporofita, nekutaka nemabwe avo vanotumwa kwauri! Ndakange ndichida kazhinji sei kuunganidza vana vako semhambo hukwana dzayo pasi pemapapiro, asi hamuna kuda.

³⁴`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

³⁵Tarirai, imba yenyu yasiiya kwamuri riri dongo; asi zvirokwazvo ndinoti kwamuri: Hamuchazondioni, kusvikira zvasvika kuti muti: Ngaarumbidzwe iye unouya nezita raIshe!

³⁵`Lo, your house is being left to you desolate, and verily I say to you — ye may not see me, till it may come, when ye may say, Blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord.`