2:12 | Ya mere, ka ayi gbaa onye ezi omume buruburu, n’ihi na ọ baghị uru nye anyị, + Ọ na-emegidekwa ọrụ anyị, + Ọ na-ejikwa mmebi iwu anyị na-akọcha anyị, Ọ na-emekwa ka anyị mara mmehie nke ụzọ ndụ anyị. |
2:13 | O kwere nkwa na ya nwere ihe ọmụma nke Chineke ma na-akpọ onwe ya Ọkpara Chineke. |
2:14 | E mere ya n’etiti anyị ka o kpughee echiche anyị. |
2:15 | Ọ na-ewute anyị ọbụna ịhụ, n’ihi na ndụ ya adịghị ka ndụ ụmụ nwoke ndị ọzọ, uzọ-Ya nile bu kwa ihe nādighi-agbanwe agbanwe. |
2:16 | Ọ dị ka à ga-asị na o weere anyị dị ka ndị na-abaghị uru, and he abstains from our ways as from filth; he prefers the newly justified, and he glories that he has God for his father. |
2:17 | Let us see, mgbe ahụ, if his words are true, and let us test what will happen to him, and then we will know what his end will be. |
2:18 | For if he is the true son of God, he will receive him and deliver him from the hands of his adversaries. |
2:19 | Let us examine him with insult and torture, that we may know his reverence and try his patience. |
2:20 | Let us condemn him to a most shameful death, for, according to his own words, God will care for him.” |
2:21 | These things they thought, and they were mistaken, for their own malice blinded them. |
2:22 | And they were ignorant of the mysteries of God; they neither hoped for the reward of justice, nor judged the value of holy souls. |