March 15, 2024

Nzeru 2: 1, 12- 22

2:1	Pakuti iwo anena, reasoning with themselves incorrectly: “Our lifetime is brief and tedious, and there is no relief within the limits of man, and no one is acknowledged to have returned from the dead.

2:12	Choncho, tiyeni tizungulira olungama, chifukwa ali wopanda ntchito kwa ife, ndipo Iye ali wotsutsana ndi ntchito zathu, ndipo amatitonza ndi zolakwa zathu, ndipo amatidziwitsa ife zolakwa za mayendedwe athu.
2:13	He promises that he has the knowledge of God and he calls himself the son of God.
2:14	He was made among us to expose our very thoughts.
2:15	He is grievous for us even to behold, for his life is unlike other men’s lives, and immutable are his ways.
2:16	It is as if we are considered by him to be insignificant, 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	Tiyeni tiwone, ndiye, ngati mawu ake ali owona, ndipo tiyeni tiyese chimene chidzam’chitikira, ndipo pamenepo tidzadziwa chomwe chidzakhala chitsiriziro chake.
2:18	Pakuti ngati iye ali mwana weniweni wa Mulungu, adzamlandira, nadzampulumutsa m’manja mwa adani ake.
2:19	Tiyeni timufufuze ndi chipongwe ndi chizunzo, kuti tidziwe kuopa kwake, ndi kuyesa chipiriro chake.
2:20	Tiyeni timugwetse imfa yochititsa manyazi kwambiri, za, monga mwa mawu ake, Mulungu adzamusamalira.”
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.

Yohane 7: 1- 2. 10, 25- 30

7:1	Ndiye, zitatha izi, Jesus was walking in Galilee. For he was not willing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
7:2	Now the feast day of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.

7:10	But after his brothers went up, then he also went up to the feast day, not openly, but as if in secret.

7:25	Choncho, some of those from Jerusalem said: “Is he not the one whom they are seeking to kill?
7:26	Ndipo tawonani, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Could the leaders have decided that it is true this one is the Christ?
7:27	But we know him and where he is from. And when the Christ has arrived, no one will know where he is from.”
7:28	Choncho, Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: "Mumandidziwa, and you also know where I am from. And I have not arrived of myself, but he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
7:29	I know him. For I am from him, and he has sent me.”
7:30	Choncho, they were seeking to apprehend him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.