¹Zvino akapindazve muKapenaume pashure pemazuva; zvikanzwikwa kuti uri mumba.

¹And again he entered into Capernaum, after [some] days, and it was heard that he is in the house,

²Zvino pakarepo vazhinji vakaungana zvekuti pakange pasisina nzvimbo, kunyange pamukova; akataura shoko kwavari.

²and immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word.

³Vakauya kwaari, vakaisa wakange akafa mitezo, akatakurwa navanhu vana.

³And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,

⁴Zvino vakati vasingagoni kusvika pedo naye nekuda kwechaunga, vakapfurunyura denga paakange ari, vakati varipfurunyura vakaburusira uchanja hwaakange avete pahwuri wakange akafa mitezo.

⁴and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken [it] up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,

⁵Jesu wakati aona rutendo rwavo akati kune wakange akafa mitezo: Mwana, zvivi zvako zvakangamwirwa kwauri.

⁵and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.`

⁶Zvino vamwe vevanyori vakange vagerepo, vakafunga mumoyo yavo vachiti:

⁶And there were certain of the scribes there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts,

⁷Uyu unotaurirei kunyomba sezvizvi? Ndiani unogona kukangamwira zvivi kunze kweumwe chete, Mwari?

⁷`Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one — God?`

⁸Zvino pakarepo Jesu achiziva mumweya wake kuti vanofunga saizvozvo mukati mavo akati kwavari: Munofungirei zvinhu izvi mumoyo yenyu?

⁸And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

⁹Chii chakakareruka zvikuru, kuti kune wakafa mitezo: Zvivi zvako zvakangamwirwa kwauri, pane kuti: Simuka, utore uchanja hwako, ufambe?

⁹which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

¹⁰Asi kuti muzive kuti Mwanakomana wemunhu une simba panyika rekukangamwira zvivi (akati kune wakange akafa mitezo):

¹⁰`And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins — (he saith to the paralytic) —

¹¹Ndinoti kwauri: Simuka utore uchanja hwako, uende kumba kwako.

¹¹I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;`

¹²Zvino pakarepo wakasimuka, akatora uchanja, ndokubuda pamberi pavo vose; zvekuti vose vakashamisika, vakarumbidza Mwari, vachiti: Hatina kumbozviona zvakadai.

¹²and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying — `Never thus did we see.`

¹³Wakabudazve akaenda kurutivi rwegungwa, chaunga chese chikauya kwaari, akavadzidzisa.

¹³And he went forth again by the sea, and all the multitude was coming unto him, and he was teaching them,

¹⁴Wakati achipfuura, akaona Revhi waArifiyosi agere paimba yemutero, akati kwaari: Nditevere. Akasimuka akamutevera.

¹⁴and passing by, he saw Levi of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, `Be following me,` and he, having risen, did follow him.

¹⁵Zvino zvakaitika agere pakudya mumba make, kuti vateresi vazhinji nevatadzi vakagarawo pamwe naJesu nevadzidzi vake; nekuti vakange vari vazhinji vakamutevera.

¹⁵And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners were reclining (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

¹⁶Zvino vanyori nevaFarisi vakati vamuona achidya nevateresi nevatadzi, vakati kuvadzidzi vake: Nemhaka yei achidya nekumwa nevateresi nevatadzi?

¹⁶And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why — that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?`

¹⁷Jesu wakati achizvinzwa akati kwavari: Vakagwinya havadi chiremba, asi vanorwara. Handina kuuya kuzodana vakarurama, asi vatadzi mukutendeuka.

¹⁷And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, `They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.`

¹⁸Uye vadzidzi vaJohwani nevevaFarisi vaitsanya; vakauya vakati kwaari: Nemhaka yeyi vadzidzi vaJohwani nevevaFarisi vachitsanya asi vadzidzi venyu havatsanyi?

¹⁸And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?`

¹⁹Jesu akati kwavari: Vana veimba yemuchato vanogona kutsanya muwani achiri kwavari here? Kana vachingova nemuwani kwavari, havagoni kutsanya;

¹⁹And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

²⁰asi mazuva awo achasvika apo muwani achabviswa kwavari, ipapo mumazuva iwayo vachatsanya.

²⁰but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast — in those days.

²¹Uye hakuna unosonera chigamba chemucheka usina kuonyana panguvo sharu; kana zvikasadaro chinoiswa chinobvarura pane yakasakara buri rikanyanya.

²¹`And no one a patch of undressed cloth doth sew on an old garment, and if not — the new filling it up doth take from the old and the rent doth become worse;

²²Uye hakuna unodira waini itsva muhombodo sharu, zvikasadaro waini itsva inoparusa hombodo, waini ikateuka nehombodo ikaparara, asi waini itsva inofanira kudirwa muhombodo itsva.

²²and no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if not — the new wine doth burst the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine into new skins is to be put.`

²³Zvino zvakaitika kuti achigura nemuminda yezviyo nesabata, vadzidzi vake ndokutanga kutanha hura vachifamba.

²³And it came to pass — he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields — and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

²⁴VaFarisi ndokuti kwaari: Tarira, vanoitirei nesabata izvo zvisiri pamutemo?

²⁴and the Pharisees said to him, `Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?`

²⁵Iye akati kwavari: Hamuna kutomboverenga here Dhavhidhi zvaakaita, musi waakange ashaiwa, ava nenzara, iye nevakange vanaye?

²⁵And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

²⁶Kuti wakapinda sei mumba maMwari nenguva yaAbhiatari mupristi mukuru, akadya zvingwa zvekuratidza zvakange zvisiri pamutemo kudyiwa kunze nevapristi, akapawo kwavari vaaiva naye?

²⁶how he went into the house of God, (at `Abiathar the chief priest,`) and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?`

²⁷Akati kwavari: Sabata rakaitirwa munhu, kwete munhu kuitirwa sabata.

²⁷And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

²⁸Naizvozvo Mwanakomana wemunhu ndiIshe kunyange wesabata.

²⁸so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.`