Yohani 11:10-22

¹⁰Kumbiti muntu pakagendagenda pashiru katalikwala, Toziya kulangala kwahera.”

¹¹Yesu katakuliti hangu na pakamaliriti, kawagambira, “Ganja gwetu Lazaru kagonja, kumbiti neni nankugenda na kumyumusiya.”

¹²Wafundwa wakuwi wamgambira, “Mtuwa, handa yomberi kagonja su hakaponiziwi.”

¹³Kumbiti Yesu kaweriti kankutakula kuusu kuhowa kwakuwi, womberi waliholiti kuwera kankutakula kuusu kugonja mbota.

¹⁴Yesu kawagambira pota kufifa, “Lazaru kahowa,

¹⁵kumbiti nemelera kwa ajili ya mwenga handa mweri ndiri aku, su mpati kujimira. Haya tugendeni kwakuwi.”

¹⁶Tomasi yawamshema mawira kawagambira wantumini wamonga, “Tugendeni woseri pamuhera na mfunda tukahowi!”

¹⁷Yesu pakafikiti aku, kamwoniti Lazaru wamtula kala mlipumba kwa mashaka msheshi.

¹⁸Shijiji sha Betaniya shiweriti pakwegera na Yerusalemu utali wa kilumita ntatu,

¹⁹na Wayawudi wavuwa wiziti kumlola Marita na Mariya kuwapanani ushiwa kwa kuhowa kaka gwawu.

²⁰Shipindi Marita pakapikaniriti handa Yesu kaweriti kamkwiza, kagenda kumwanka, kumbiti Mariya kasigaliti ukaya.

²¹Marita kamgambira Yesu, “Mtuwa handa gwangaweriti panu, kaka gwangu mekahowiti ndiri!

²²Kumbiti nuvimana handa ata vinu shoseri shagufira kumluwa Mlungu, hakakupi.”