| 22:1 |
Na kujibu, Yesu alizungumza nao tena kwa mifano, akisema: |
| 22:2 |
“Ufalme wa mbinguni umefanana na mtu aliyekuwa mfalme, ambaye alisherehekea harusi ya mwanawe. |
| 22:3 |
Akatuma watumishi wake kuwaita wale walioalikwa arusini. Lakini hawakuwa tayari kuja. |
| 22:4 |
Tena, akawatuma watumishi wengine, akisema, ‘Waambie walioalikwa: Tazama, Nimeandaa chakula changu. Fahali wangu na vinono vimechinjwa, na yote ni tayari. Njooni kwenye arusi.’ |
| 22:5 |
Lakini walipuuza hili na wakaenda zao: moja kwa mali ya nchi yake, na mwingine kwenye biashara yake. |
| 22:6 |
Bado kweli, wengine wakawashika watumishi wake na, akiwa amewadharau, kuwaua. |
| 22:7 |
Lakini mfalme aliposikia haya, alikasirika. Na kutuma majeshi yake, aliwaangamiza wauaji hao, akauteketeza mji wao. |
| 22:8 |
Kisha akawaambia watumishi wake: ‘Harusi, kweli, imeandaliwa. Lakini wale walioalikwa hawakustahili. |
| 22:9 |
Kwa hiyo, nendeni kwenye njia, na muite yeyote mtakayemwona kwenye arusi. |
| 22:10 |
Na watumishi wake, kuondoka kwenye njia, wakakusanya wote waliowakuta, mbaya na nzuri, na arusi ikajaa wageni. |
| 22:11 |
Kisha mfalme akaingia kuwaona wageni. Akamwona mtu mle ndani ambaye hakuwa amevaa vazi la arusi. |
| 22:12 |
Naye akamwambia, ‘Rafiki, imekuwaje umeingia humu bila vazi la harusi?’ Lakini alipigwa bubu. |
| 22:13 |
Ndipo mfalme akawaambia mawaziri: ‘Mfunge mikono na miguu, na kumtupa katika giza la nje, ambapo kutakuwa na kilio na kusaga meno. |
| 22:14 |
Maana wengi wameitwa, lakini waliochaguliwa ni wachache.’ ” |
| 22:15 |
Kisha Mafarisayo, kwenda nje, took counsel as to how they might entrap him in speech. |
| 22:16 |
And they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, akisema: “Mwalimu, we know that you are truthful, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and that the influence of others is nothing to you. For you do not consider the reputation of men. |
| 22:17 |
Kwa hiyo, tell us, how does it seem to you? Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar, au siyo?” |
| 22:18 |
Lakini Yesu, knowing their wickedness, sema: “Mbona unanijaribu, wanafiki? |
| 22:19 |
Show me the coin of the census tax.” And they offered him a denarius. |
| 22:20 |
Naye Yesu akawaambia, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?” |
| 22:21 |
Wakamwambia, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Then render to Caesar what is of Caesar; and to God what is of God.” |
| 22:22 |
Na kusikia hili, walishangaa. And having left him behind, wakaenda zao. |
| 22:23 |
Katika siku hiyo, the Sadducees, who say there is to be no resurrection, akamsogelea. Wakamwuliza, |
| 22:24 |
akisema: “Mwalimu, Musa alisema: If anyone will have died, having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and he shall raise up offspring to his brother. |
| 22:25 |
Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first, having taken a wife, alikufa. And having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother: |
| 22:26 |
similarly with the second, na ya tatu, even to the seventh. |
| 22:27 |
Na mwisho wa yote, the woman also passed away. |
| 22:28 |
Katika ufufuo, basi, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.” |
| 22:29 |
But Jesus responded to them by saying: “You have gone astray by knowing neither the Scriptures, wala uweza wa Mungu. |
| 22:30 |
For in the resurrection, wala hawataoa, wala kuolewa. Badala yake, they shall be like the Angels of God in heaven. |
| 22:31 |
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken by God, kusema na wewe: |
| 22:32 |
‘Mimi ni Mungu wa Abrahamu, na Mungu wa Isaka, na Mungu wa Yakobo?’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” |
| 22:33 |
And when the crowds heard this, they wondered at his doctrine. |
| 22:34 |
Lakini Mafarisayo, kusikia kwamba amewafanya Masadukayo kunyamaza, walikuja pamoja kama kitu kimoja. |
| 22:35 |
Na mmoja wao, daktari wa sheria, alimhoji, kumjaribu: |
| 22:36 |
“Mwalimu, ambayo ndiyo amri kuu katika torati?” |
| 22:37 |
Yesu akamwambia: “ ‘Mpende Bwana Mungu wako kwa moyo wako wote, na kwa roho yako yote na kwa akili zako zote.’ |
| 22:38 |
Hii ndiyo amri iliyo kuu na ya kwanza. |
| 22:39 |
Lakini ya pili inafanana nayo: ‘Mpende jirani yako kama nafsi yako.’ |
| 22:40 |
Katika amri hizi mbili sheria nzima inategemea, na manabii pia.” |
| 22:41 |
Kisha, when the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them, |
| 22:42 |
akisema: “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” Wakamwambia, “David’s.” |
| 22:43 |
Akawaambia: “Then how can David, in the Spirit, call him Lord, akisema: |
| 22:44 |
‘Bwana akamwambia Bwana wangu: Keti mkono wangu wa kulia, until I make your enemies your footstool?' |
| 22:45 |
Hivyo basi, if David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” |
| 22:46 |
And no one was able to respond to him a word. And neither did anyone dare, from that day forward, to question him. |
