| 19:1 |
Na baada ya kuingia, alipitia Yeriko. |
| 19:2 |
Na tazama, palikuwa na mtu mmoja jina lake Zakayo. Naye alikuwa kiongozi wa watoza ushuru, naye alikuwa tajiri. |
| 19:3 |
Naye akatafuta kumwona Yesu, kuona alikuwa nani. Lakini hakuweza kufanya hivyo, kwa sababu ya umati, maana alikuwa mdogo kwa umbo. |
| 19:4 |
Na kukimbia mbele, akapanda juu ya mkuyu, ili amwone. Maana alikuwa apite karibu na hapo. |
| 19:5 |
Na alipofika mahali pale, Yesu akainua macho akamwona, akamwambia: “Zakayo, haraka chini. Kwa leo, Ninapaswa kukaa nyumbani kwako.” |
| 19:6 |
Na kuharakisha, akashuka, naye akampokea kwa furaha. |
| 19:7 |
Na wote walipoona haya, walinung'unika, akisema kwamba amegeukia kando kwa mtu mwenye dhambi. |
| 19:8 |
Lakini Zakayo, kusimama tuli, akamwambia Bwana: “Tazama, Bwana, nusu ya mali yangu nawapa maskini. Na ikiwa nimemdanganya mtu yeyote katika jambo lolote, nitamlipa mara nne.” |
| 19:9 |
Yesu akamwambia: “Leo, wokovu umefika katika nyumba hii; kwa sababu hii, yeye pia ni mwana wa Ibrahimu. |
| 19:10 |
Kwa maana Mwana wa Adamu alikuja kutafuta na kuokoa kile kilichopotea.” |
| 19:11 |
As they were listening to these things, kuendelea, he spoke a parable, because he was nearing Jerusalem, and because they guessed that the kingdom of God might be manifested without delay. |
| 19:12 |
Kwa hiyo, alisema: “A certain man of nobility traveled to a far away region, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. |
| 19:13 |
And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds, akawaambia: ‘Do business until I return.’ |
| 19:14 |
But his citizens hated him. And so they sent a delegation after him, akisema, ‘We do not want this one to reign over us.’ |
| 19:15 |
And it happened that he returned, having received the kingdom. And he ordered the servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called so that he would know how much each one had earned by doing business. |
| 19:16 |
Now the first approached, akisema: ‘Bwana, your one pound has earned ten pounds.’ |
| 19:17 |
Naye akamwambia: ‘Well done, good servant. Since you have been faithful in a small matter, you will hold authority over ten cities.’ |
| 19:18 |
And the second came, akisema: ‘Bwana, your one pound has earned five pounds.’ |
| 19:19 |
Naye akamwambia, ‘And so, you shall be over five cities.’ |
| 19:20 |
And another approached, akisema: ‘Bwana, behold your one pound, which I kept stored in a cloth. |
| 19:21 |
For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.’ |
| 19:22 |
Akamwambia: ‘By your own mouth, do I judge you, O wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow. |
| 19:23 |
Na hivyo, why did you not give my money to the bank, Kwahivyo, upon my return, I might have withdrawn it with interest?' |
| 19:24 |
And he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the pound away from him, and give it to him who has ten pounds.’ |
| 19:25 |
Wakamwambia, ‘Bwana, he has ten pounds.’ |
| 19:26 |
Hivyo basi, Nawaambia, that to all who have, it shall be given, and he will have in abundance. And from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. |
| 19:27 |
‘Yet truly, as for those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and put them to death before me.’ ” |
| 19:28 |
Na baada ya kusema haya, akaenda mbele, wakipanda kwenda Yerusalemu. |
| 19:29 |
Na ikawa hivyo, alipokuwa amekaribia Bethfage na Bethania, kwenye mlima uitwao Mizeituni, akawatuma wawili wa wanafunzi wake, |
| 19:30 |
akisema: “Nendeni katika mji ulio mbele yenu. Baada ya kuingia humo, utapata mwana-punda, amefungwa, ambayo hakuna mtu aliyewahi kuketi. Ifungue, na kuiongoza hapa. |
| 19:31 |
Na ikiwa mtu yeyote atakuuliza, ‘Mbona unaifungua?’ utamwambia hivi: ‘Kwa sababu Bwana ametaka utumishi wake.’ ” |
| 19:32 |
Na wale waliotumwa wakatoka, wakamkuta mwana-punda amesimama, kama alivyowaambia. |
| 19:33 |
Kisha, walipokuwa wakimfungua mwana-punda, wamiliki wake wakawaambia, “Mbona unamfungua mwana punda?” |
| 19:34 |
Hivyo walisema, "Kwa sababu Bwana anaihitaji." |
| 19:35 |
Nao wakampelekea Yesu. Na kuweka mavazi yao juu ya mwana-punda, walimsaidia Yesu juu yake. |
| 19:36 |
Kisha, alipokuwa akisafiri, walikuwa wakiweka nguo zao chini njiani. |
| 19:37 |
Na alipokuwa anakaribia kuteremka mlima wa Mizeituni, umati wote wa wanafunzi wake ulianza kumsifu Mungu kwa shangwe, kwa sauti kubwa, juu ya kazi zote za nguvu walizoziona, |
| 19:38 |
akisema: “Abarikiwe mfalme aliyekuja kwa jina la Bwana! Amani mbinguni na utukufu juu!” |
| 19:39 |
Na baadhi ya Mafarisayo waliokuwa katikati ya umati wakamwambia, “Mwalimu, uwakemee wanafunzi wako.” |
| 19:40 |
Naye akawaambia, "Nakuambia, kwamba kama hawa watakaa kimya, mawe yenyewe yatapiga kelele.” |
| 19:41 |
Na alipokaribia, kuona mji, akalia juu yake, akisema: |
| 19:42 |
“Laiti ungejua, hakika hata katika siku yako hii, mambo ambayo ni kwa ajili ya amani yenu. Lakini sasa yamefichwa machoni pako. |
| 19:43 |
Kwa maana siku zitakujia. Na adui zako watakuzunguka kwa bonde. Na watakuzunguka na kukuzingira kila upande. |
| 19:44 |
Na watakuangusha chini, pamoja na wana wako walio ndani yako. Wala hawataacha jiwe juu ya jiwe ndani yako, kwa sababu hukutambua majira ya kujiliwa kwako.” |
| 19:45 |
Na kuingia ndani ya hekalu, akaanza kuwafukuza wale waliokuwa wakiuza humo, na wale walionunua, |
| 19:46 |
akiwaambia: “Imeandikwa: ‘Nyumba yangu ni nyumba ya sala.’ Lakini ninyi mmeifanya kuwa pango la wanyang’anyi.” |
| 19:47 |
Naye alikuwa akifundisha hekaluni kila siku. Na viongozi wa makuhani, na waandishi, na viongozi wa watu walikuwa wakitafuta kumwangamiza. |
| 19:48 |
Lakini hawakuweza kupata la kumfanya. Kwa maana watu wote walikuwa wakimsikiliza kwa makini. |
