¹Naizvozvo ipapo Pirato wakatora Jesu, akamurova netyava.

¹So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

²Zvino mauto akaruka korona yemhinzwa akaisa pamusoro wake, ndokumupfekedza nguvo dzine ruvara rwehute.

²The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

³Vakati: Hekanhi, Mambo wevaJudha! Ndokumurova nembama.

³They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

⁴Naizvozvo Pirato akabudazve panze, ndokuti kwavari: Tarirai, ndinomubudisira kwamuri, kuti muzive kuti handiwani mhosva maari.

⁴Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

⁵Naizvozvo Jesu wakabuda panze, akapfeka korona yemhinzwa, nenguvo ine ruvara rwehute. Pirato ndokuti kwavari: Tarirai munhu uyu!

⁵Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”

⁶Naizvozvo vapristi vakuru nemapurisa pavakamuona, vakadanidzira vachiti: Roverera pamuchinjikwa, roverera pamuchinjikwa! Pirato akati kwavari: Mutorei imwi, muroverere pamuchinjikwa; nekuti ini handiwani mhosva kwaari.

⁶When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

⁷VaJudha vakamupindura vakati: Isu tine murairo, uye nemurairo wedu unofanira kufa, nekuti wakazviita Mwanakomana waMwari.

⁷The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

⁸Naizvozvo Pirato paakanzwa shoko iro, wakanyanya kutya.

⁸When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

⁹Akapindazve mumba memutungamiriri, ndokuti kuna Jesu: Unobvepi iwe? Asi Jesu haana kumupa mhinduro.

⁹He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰Pirato akati kwaari: Hautauri neni here? Hauzivi here kuti ndine simba rekukuroverera pamuchinjikwa uye ndine simba rekukusunungura?

¹⁰Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?”

¹¹Jesu akapindura akati: Haungatongovi nesimba pamusoro pangu, dai usina kuripiwa kubva kumusoro; naizvozvo unondikumikidza kwauri une chivi chikuru.

¹¹Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

¹²Kubva ipapo Pirato akatsvaka kumusunungura. Asi vaJudha vakadanidzira, vachiti: Kana mukasunungura uyu, hamusi shamwari yaKesari; umwe neumwe unozviita mambo, unopikisana naKesari.

¹²At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

¹³Naizvozvo Pirato anzwa shoko iri wakabudisa Jesu panze, akagara pachigaro chekutonga, panzvimbo inonzi Pakarongwa neMambwe, asi nechiHebheru Gabhata.

¹³When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement,” but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

¹⁴Zvino raiva gadziriro repasika, uye raiva awa rinenge rechitanhatu; ndokuti kuvaJudha: Tarirai Mambo wenyu!

¹⁴Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 AM according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

¹⁵Asi vakadanidzira vachiti: Bvisai, bvisai, murovererei pamuchinjikwa! Pirato akati kwavari: Ndoroverera pamuchinjikwa mambo wenyu here? Vapristi vakuru vakapindura vachiti: Hatina mambo kunze kwaKesari.

¹⁵They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

¹⁶Naizvozvo ipapo akamukumikidza kwavari, kuti arovererwe pamuchinjikwa. Zvino vakatora Jesu vakamutinha.

¹⁶So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

¹⁷Zvino wakatakura muchinjikwa wake akabuda akaenda kunzvimbo yainzi yeDehenya, ichinzi nechiHebheru Gorogota;

¹⁷He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull,” which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha,”

¹⁸pevakamuroverera pamuchinjikwa nevamwe vaviri naye, parutivi neparutivi, naJesu pakati.

¹⁸where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

¹⁹Pirato ndokunyorawo chiziviso akaisa pamuchinjikwa; chakange chakanyorwa kuti: JESU MUNAZARETA MAMBO WEVAJUDHA.

¹⁹Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

²⁰Naizvozvo vazhinji vevaJudha vakaverenga chiziviso ichi; nekuti nzvimbo pakange pakarovererwa Jesu pamuchinjikwa yaiva pedo neguta; uye pakange pakanyorwa nechiHebheru, nechiRoma, nechiGiriki.

²⁰Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

²¹Naizvozvo vapristi vakuru vevaJudha vakati kuna Pirato: Musanyora muchiti: Mambo wevaJudha; asi kuti uyu wakati: Ndiri mambo wevaJudha.

²¹The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, I am King of the Jews.’”

²²Pirato akapindura akati: Zvandanyora, ndanyora.

²²Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

²³Naizvozvo mauto akati aroverera Jesu pamuchinjikwa, akatora nguvo dzake, akaita migove mina, kumuuto umwe neumwe mugove; nenguvo yepasi; asi shati iyi yakange isina musono, yakange yakarukwa yose kubva kumusoro.

²³Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

²⁴Naizvozvo vakataurirana vachiti: Ngatirege kuibvarura, asi tiikandire mijenya, kuti ichava yaani; kuti rugwaro ruzadziswe rwunoti: Vakagovana nguvo dzangu pakati pavo, vakakandawo mujenya pamusoro pechokufuka changu. Naizvozvo mauto akaita zvinhu izvi.

²⁴Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots.” Psalm 22:18 Therefore the soldiers did these things.

²⁵Zvino pamuchinjikwa waJesu pakange pamire mai vake, nemunin'ina wamai vake, Maria mukadzi waKiropasi, naMaria Magidharini.

²⁵But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶Naizvozvo Jesu wakati achiona mai vake, nemudzidzi waaida amirepo, akati kuna mai vake: Mukadzi, tarira mwanakomana wako.

²⁶Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!”

²⁷Shure kweizvozvo wakati kumudzidzi: Tarira mai vako. Zvino kubva paawa iro mudzidzi wakavatora akavaisa kumba kwake.

²⁷Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

²⁸Shure kwaizvozvi, Jesu achiziva kuti zvinhu zvose zvatopedzwa, kuti rugwaro rwuzadziswe, akati: Ndine nyota.

²⁸After this, Jesus, seeing NU, TR read “knowing” instead of “seeing” that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

²⁹Zvino pakange pakagadzikwa hari izere nevhiniga; zvino vakazadza chipanje nevhiniga vakaisa parutanda rwehisopi*, vakaisa kumuromo wake.

²⁹Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.

³⁰Naizvozvo Jesu agamuchira vhiniga, wakati: Zvapedzwa! Akakotamisa musoro, akapa Mweya wake.

³⁰When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

³¹Naizvozvo vaJudha nekuti rakange riri gadziriro, kuti mitumbi isagara pamuchinjikwa nesabata (nekuti zuva resabata iro raiva guru), vakakumbira Pirato kuti makumbo avo avhuniwe, uye vabviswe.

³¹Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

³²Naizvozvo mauto akauya, akavhuna makumbo ewokutanga, neeumwe wakange arovererwa pamuchinjikwa pamwe naye;

³²Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;

³³asi vasvika kuna Jesu, pavakaona kuti watofa, havana kuvhuna makumbo ake;

³³but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.

³⁴asi umwe wemauto wakabaya rutivi rwake nepfumo, pakarepo kukabuda ropa nemvura.

³⁴However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

³⁵Uye iye wakaona wakapupura, uye kupupura kwake ichokwadi; uye iye unoziva kuti unoreva chokwadzi, kuti imwi mutende.

³⁵He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

³⁶Nekuti zvinhu izvi zvakaitwa kuti rugwaro rwuzadziswe runoti: Fupa rake haringavhunwi.

³⁶For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.” Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20

³⁷Uyezve rumwe rugwaro rwunoti: Vachamutarira wavakabvovora.

³⁷Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.” Zechariah 12:10

³⁸Shure kweizvozvi Josefa weArimatia, ari mudzidzi waJesu, asi pachivande nekutya vaJudha, wakakumbira kuna Pirato kuti abvise mutumbi waJesu; Zvino Pirato akamutendera. Naizvozvo akauya akabvisa mutumbi waJesu.

³⁸After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

³⁹Kwakauyawo Nikodhimo, wakauya pakutanga kuna Jesu usiku, akatakura musanganiswa wemura* nearosi* mapaundi anenge zana.

³⁹Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.

⁴⁰Ipapo vakatora mutumbi waJesu, vakamuputira nemicheka yerineni nezvinonhuhwira, seyaiva tsika yevaJudha yekuviga.

⁴⁰So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

⁴¹Zvino panzvimbo iyo paakarovererwa pamuchinjikwa pakange pane bindu, uye mubindu mune guva idzva, makange musina kumboradzikwa munhu.

⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

⁴²Naizvozvo vakaradzika Jesu ipapo nekuda kwegadziriro yevaJudha, nekuti guva rakange riri pedo.

⁴²Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.