¹Vakati vachiswedera kuJerusarema, vasvika Bhetefage pagomo reMiorivhi, ipapo Jesu akatuma vadzidzi vaviri,

¹And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, unto the mount of the Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

²achiti kwavari: Endai kumusha wakatarisana nemwi, pakarepo muchawana mbongoro yakasungirwa, nedhongwana rinayo; sunungurai, muuyise kwandiri.

²saying to them, `Go on to the village over-against you, and immediately ye shall find an ass bound, and a colt with her — having loosed, bring ye to me;

³Kana ani nani achitaura chinhu kwamuri, muchati: Ishe unozvida; pakarepo uchazvitumira.

³and if any one may say anything to you, ye shall say, that the lord hath need of them, and immediately he will send them.`

⁴Izvozvo zvose zvakaitika, kuti zvizadziswe zvakataurwa nemuporofita, achiti:

⁴And all this came to pass, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying,

⁵Udzai mukunda weZiyoni: Tarira Mambo wako unouya kwauri, ari munyoro, akatasva mbongoro, nedhongwana, mwana wemhuka yemutoro.

⁵`Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy king doth come to thee, meek, and mounted on an ass, and a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.`

⁶Vadzidzi vakaenda, vakaita Jesu sezvaakavaraira,

⁶And the disciples having gone and having done as Jesus commanded them,

⁷vakauisa mbongoro nedhongwana, vakaisa nguvo dzavo pamusoro pazvo; vakamugadza pamusoro pazvo.

⁷brought the ass and the colt, and did put on them their garments, and set [him] upon them;

⁸Chaunga chikuru kwazvo chikawarira nguvo dzacho munzira; vamwe vakatema matavi pamiti vakawarira munzira.

⁸and the very great multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way,

⁹Zvaunga zvakange zvakamutungamirira nevakange vachitevera vakadanidzira, vachiti: Hosana* kuMwanakomana waDavhidhi! Ngaarumbidzwe iye unouya muzita raIshe! Hosana* kumusoro-soro!

⁹and the multitudes who were going before, and who were following, were crying, saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.`

¹⁰Wakati apinda muJerusarema, guta rose rikazungunuswa, richiti: Ndiani uyu?

¹⁰And he having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, `Who is this?`

¹¹Zvaunga zvikati: Uyu ndiJesu muporofita weNazareta reGarirea.

¹¹And the multitudes said, `This is Jesus the prophet, who [is] from Nazareth of Galilee.`

¹²Zvino Jesu wakapinda mutembere yaMwari, akadzingira vose vaitengesa nevaitenga mutembere, akapidigura matafura evaitsinhanha mari, nezvigaro zvevaitengesa njiva.

¹²And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves,

¹³Akati kwavari: Kwakanyorwa kuchinzi: Imba yangu ichanzi imba yemunyengetero; asi imwi munoiita bako remakororo.

¹³and he saith to them, `It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.`

¹⁴Kukauya kwaari mapofu nevaikamhina mutembere; akavaporesa.

¹⁴And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,

¹⁵Asi vapristi vakuru nevanyori vakati vachiona zvinhu zvinoshamisa zvaakange achiita, nevana vachidanidzira mutembere vachiti: Hosana* kuMwanakomana waDhavhidhi! vakatsamwa,

¹⁵and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David,` were much displeased;

¹⁶vakati kwaari: Unonzwa zvavanotaura ivava here? Jesu akati kwavari: Hongu, hamuna kutongoverenga here, kuti: Mumuromo mavacheche nevanoyamwa makaperedzera rumbidzo?

¹⁶and they said to him, `Hearest thou what these say?` And Jesus saith to them, `Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?`

¹⁷Akavasiya, akabuda panze peguta, achienda Bhetaniya, ndokuvatapo.

¹⁷And having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there,

¹⁸Kuzoti mangwanani-ngwanani wakati achidzokera kuguta, akanzwa nzara.

¹⁸and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,

¹⁹Zvino wakati achiona muonde panzira, akaenda kwauri, akasawana chinhu kwauri, asi mashizha chete; akati kwauri: Ngakurege kuva nezvibereko kwauri kusvikira narinhi. Pakarepo muonde ukasvava.

¹⁹and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, `No more from thee may fruit be — to the age;` and forthwith the fig-tree withered.

²⁰Vadzidzi vakati vachiona, vakashamisika, vachiti: Muonde wasvava pakarepo sei?

²⁰And the disciples having seen, did wonder, saying, `How did the fig-tree forthwith wither?`

²¹Jesu akapindura akati kwavari: Zvirokwazvo ndinoti kwamuri: Dai maiva nerutendo, musingakononi, hamungaiti izvi kumuonde chete, asi kana mukati kugomo iri: Simudzwa ukandirwe mugungwa; zvichaitwa.

²¹And Jesus answering said to them, `Verily I say to you, If ye may have faith, and may not doubt, not only this of the fig-tree shall ye do, but even if to this mount ye may say, Be lifted up and be cast into the sea, it shall come to pass;

²²Nezvose zvipi nezvipi zvamunokumbira mumunyengetero, kana muchitenda, muchazvigamuchira.

²²and all — as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.`

²³Wakati apinda mutembere, vapristi vakuru nevakuru vevanhu vakauya kwaari achidzidzisa, vakati: Munoita zvinhu izvozvi nesimba ripi? Ndiani wakakupai simba iri?

²³And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?`

²⁴Jesu akapindura akati kwavari: Neni ndichakuvhunzai shoko rimwe; kana mukandiudza iro, neni ndichakuudzai kuti ndinoita izvi nesimba ripi.

²⁴And Jesus answering said to them, `I will ask you — I also — one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things;

²⁵Rubhabhatidzo rwaJohwani rwakabvepi? Kudenga here kana kuvanhu? Vakarangana vachiti: Kana tikati: Kudenga, uchati kwatiri: Saka makagoregerei kumutenda?

²⁵the baptism of John, whence was it? — from heaven, or from men?` And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

²⁶Asi kana tikati: Kuvanhu, tinotya chaunga; nekuti vose vakatora Johwani semuporofita.

²⁶and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.`

²⁷Vakapindura Jesu vakati: Hatizivi. Ndokuti kwavari: Neni handingakuudziyi simba randinoita naro zvinhu izvi.

²⁷And answering Jesus they said, `We have not known.` He said to them — he also — `Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

²⁸Zvino munofungei? Munhu waiva nevana vaviri; akauya kune wekutanga, akati: Mwana, enda nhasi unobata mumunda wangu wemizambiringa.

²⁸`And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.`

²⁹Iye akapindura akati: Handidi; asi pashure akatendeuka akaenda.

²⁹And he answering said, `I will not,` but at last, having repented, he went.

³⁰Akaenda kune wechipiri akataura saizvozvo. Iye akapindura akati: Ndinoenda, Ishe; akasaenda.

³⁰`And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I [go], sir, and went not;

³¹Ndeupi kune ivavo vaviri wakaita kuda kwababa? Vakati kwaari: Wekutanga. Jesu akati kwavari: Zvirokwazvo ndinoti kwamuri: Vateresi nezvifeve vanokutangirai kupinda muushe hwaMwari.

³¹which of the two did the will of the father?` They say to him, `The first.` Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

³²Nekuti Johwani wakauya kwamuri nenzira yekururama, mukasamutenda; asi vateresi nezvifeve vakamutenda, asi imwi makati muchiona, hamuna kuzotendeuka shure kwaizvozvi kuti mumutende.

³²for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last — to believe him.

³³Inzwai umwe mufananidzo. Kwaiva nemunhu, mwene weimba, wakasima munda wemizambiringa, akaisa ruzhowa rwakaukomberedza, akachera pekusvinira waini mauri, akavaka shongwe, akauhaisa* kuvarimi, akafamba rwendo.

³³`Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

³⁴Kuzoti nguva yezvibereko yaswedera, akatuma varanda vake kuvarimi kuti vagamuchire zvibereko zvawo.

³⁴`And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

³⁵Asi varimi vakabata varanda vake, umwe vakarova, umwe vakauraya, umwe vakataka nematombo.

³⁵and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

³⁶Akatumazve vamwe varanda vazhinji kune vekutanga; vakavaitira saizvozvo.

³⁶`Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

³⁷Asi pakupedzisira akatuma mwanakomana wake kwavari, achiti: Vacharemekedza mwanakomana wangu.

³⁷`And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;

³⁸Asi varimi vakati vachiona mwanakomana, vakataurirana, vachiti: Uyu ndiye mugari wenhaka; uyai, ngatimuurayeyi tibate nhaka yake.

³⁸and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

³⁹Zvino vakamubata vakaposhera kunze kwemunda wemizambiringa vakamuuraya.

³⁹and having taken him, they cast [him] out of the vineyard, and killed him;

⁴⁰Naizvozvo kana mwene wemunda wemizambiringa achisvika, uchaitei kuvarimi ivavo?

⁴⁰whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?`

⁴¹Vakati kwaari: Uchaparadza zvakaipa avo vakaipa, akahaisa vamwe varimi munda wemizambiringa, vachazomupa zvibereko nenguva dzazvo.

⁴¹They say to him, `Evil men — he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.`

⁴²Jesu akati kwavari: Hamuna kutongoverenga here pamagwaro panoti: Ibwe vavaki ravakaramba, ndiro rakazova musoro wekona; uku kuita kwaIshe, kunoshamisa pameso edu?

⁴²Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

⁴³Naizvozvo ndinoti kwamuri: Ushe hwaMwari huchatorwa kubva kwamuri, hukapiwa kurudzi rwunobereka zvibereko zvahwo.

⁴³`Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;

⁴⁴Uye unowira pamusoro pebwe iri, uchavhuniwa; asi pane upi neupi warinowira richamukuya.

⁴⁴and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.`

⁴⁵Vapristi vakuru nevaFarisi vakati vachinzwa mifananidzo yake, vakaziva kuti unotaura ivo.

⁴⁵And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh,

⁴⁶Zvino vakati vachitsvaka kumubata vakatya zvaunga nekuti vaimutora semuporofita.

⁴⁶and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.