3:1 |
Uye zvakare, akapinda musinagoge. And there was a man there who had a withered hand. |
3:2 |
And they observed him, to see if he would cure on the Sabbaths, so that they might accuse him. |
3:3 |
And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Stand up in the middle.” |
3:4 |
Iye akati kwavari: “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbaths, kana kuita zvakaipa, to give health to a life, or to destroy?” But they remained silent. |
3:5 |
And looking around at them with anger, being very saddened over the blindness of their hearts, akati kumurume, “Tambanudza ruoko rwako.” Uye akaitambanudza, and his hand was restored to him. |
3:6 |
Ipapo vaFarisi, kubuda, immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, kuti vangamuparadza sei. |
3:7 |
But Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. And a great crowd followed him from Galilee and Judea, |
3:8 |
and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and across the Jordan. And those around Tyre and Sidon, upon hearing what he was doing, came to him in a great multitude. |
3:9 |
And he told his disciples that a small boat would be useful to him, nokuda kwavanhu vazhinji, lest they press upon him. |
3:10 |
For he healed so many, that as many of them as had wounds would rush toward him in order to touch him. |
3:11 |
And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell prostrate before him. And they cried out, achiti, |
3:12 |
“You are the Son of God.” And he strongly admonished them, kuti varege kumuzivisa. |
3:13 |
And ascending onto a mountain, he called to himself those whom he willed, and they came to him. |
3:14 |
And he acted so that the twelve would be with him, and so that he might send them out to preach. |
3:15 |
And he gave them authority to cure infirmities, and to cast out demons: |
3:16 |
and he imposed on Simon the name Peter; |
3:17 |
and also he imposed on James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, the name ‘Boanerges,’ that is, ‘Sons of Thunder;' |
3:18 |
and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite, |
3:19 |
naJudhasi Isikariyoti, who also betrayed him. |
3:20 |
And they went to a house, and the crowd gathered together again, so much so that they were not even able to eat bread. |
3:21 |
And when his own had heard of it, they went out to take hold of him. For they said: “Because he has gone mad.” |
3:22 |
And the scribes who had descended from Jerusalem said, “Because he has Beelzebub, and because by the prince of demons does he cast out demons.” |
3:23 |
And having called them together, he spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? |
3:24 |
For if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand. |
3:25 |
And if a house is divided against itself, that house is not able to stand. |
3:26 |
And if Satan has risen up against himself, he would be divided, and he would not be able to stand; instead he reaches the end. |
3:27 |
No one is able to plunder the goods of a strong man, having entered into the house, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he shall plunder his house. |
3:28 |
Ameni ndinoti kwamuri, that all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and the blasphemies by which they will have blasphemed. |
3:29 |
But he who will have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit shall not have forgiveness in eternity; instead he shall be guilty of an eternal offense.” |
3:30 |
For they said: “He has an unclean spirit.” |
3:31 |
And his mother and brothers arrived. And standing outside, they sent to him, achimudana. |
3:32 |
And the crowd was sitting around him. Vakati kwaari, “Tarirai, your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” |
3:33 |
Uye kuvapindura, akati, “Who is my mother and my brothers?” |
3:34 |
And looking around at those who were sitting all around him, akati: “Tarirai, my mother and my brothers. |
3:35 |
For whoever has done the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister and mother.” |