Maliku 9:20-41

²⁰wadabwera naye. Pakuwona Jezu, mzimu wakuipa udayamba kusukusa mulumbwana ule mwa mphambvu, mpaka iye pantsi khu, nkhumbabvumbvulika, acicoka phobvu kumulomo.

²¹Jezu adabvundza baba wace kuti:“Bzimwebzi bzidamuyamba lini?” Baba wace adati:“Bzidamuyamba ali mwana.

²²Mzimu umweyu umbakhala ucimbamugwesa kawiri-kawiri. Umbam'gwesa pamoto pinango mmadzi kufuna kumupha. Penu Imwe mungakwanisa, tibvereni ntsisi, tithandizeni.”

²³Jezu adati:“Uli kuti mungakwanise, bzinthu bzentse n'bzakukwanisika kuna omwe ana cikhulupiriro.”

²⁴Pamwepo baba wa mwana adakuwa acidandaula aciti, “Ndiri kukhulupirira. Ndithandizeni kusaya cikhulupiriro kwangu.”

²⁵Pomwe Jezu adawona kuti wanthu ali kuwanda pambutoyo, adawutsimula mwa ukali mzimu wakuipayo, adati:“Iwe mzimu wakutazisa kulewa-lewa na kubva, ndiri kukuuza kuti ucoke mwa mwanayu, ndipo leka kudzapita pomwe mwa iye.”

²⁶Mzimu ule udakuwa ucim'sukusa mwa mphambvu, ucicoka. Mwana ule adakhala ninga wafa, mpaka azinji akhambati, “Wafa.”

²⁷Ndipo Jezu adam'phata boko acimuimisa, iye adaima.

²⁸Pomwe Jezu adakapita mnyumba, wakupfundzira wace adamubvundza pambali, kuti, “Ife tidatazira tani kuucosa mzimu ule?”

²⁹Jezu adatawira kuti, “Mzimu wa mtundu umweyu ungacoke lini pakusaya kucita mpembo na kubzimana kudya.”

³⁰Jezu na wakupfundzira wace adacoka kumbuto ire ndipo adapita na kuGalileya. Iye akhafuna lini kuti wanthu adziwe komwe akhali,

³¹thangwe akhapfundzisa wakupfundzira wace, acimbawati:“Mwana-wa-Munthu an'dzaperekedwa kwa wanthu, ndipo an'dzamupha. Tsono angamupha, Iye an'dzamuka pomwe zingadzapita ntsiku zitatu.”

³²Tsono iwo alibe kubvesesa bzomwe iye akhalewa, ndipo akhagopa kumubvundza.

³³Ndipo wadafika kuKafernau. Pomwe iye akhali mnyumba, adawabvundza kuti: “Kodi panjira pale mukhambatsutsana ciani?”

³⁴Wakupfundzira wale adakhala cete, thangwe bzomwe wakhatsutsana bzikhali bzakuti mkulu mbani pakati pawo.

³⁵Jezu adakhala pantsi, acicemera wakupfundzira khumi na awiri wale, aciwauza kuti:“Penu winango an'funa kukhala wakutoma, an'dzakhala wakumalizira, ndipo wakudzatumikira wentse.”

³⁶Pamwepo adatenga mwana m'bodzi, acimukhazika pakati pawo acikumbatira, adawauza kuti,

³⁷“Ali-yentse an'tambira mwana ninga uyu thangwe ra Ine, ali kutambira Ine, Ndipo wakutambira Ine, ali kutambira ine na omwe adandituma.”

³⁸Juwau adawuza Jezu kuti:“Mpfundzisi, ife tidawona munthu winango acimbacosa mizimu yakuipa pakulewa dzina lanu, ndipo tidamuletsa, thangwe ambafamba lini na ife.”

³⁹Tsono Jezu adati:“Lekani kumuletsa, thangwe palibe omwe angacite bzidabwiso mudzina langu patsogolo pace acindinyoza.

⁴⁰Sabwa wakusaya kutsutsana nafe, umweyo ngwakuphatana nafe.

⁴¹Na tenepo ule omwe an'kupasani mkombo wa madzi mudzina langu, thangwe ra kuti ndimwe wa kwa Krixtu, cadidi ndiri kulewa kuti umweyo cipo angadzasaye kutambira mabaibai.”