Matthew 15
1 Then [some] Pharisees and men who taught the [Jewish] laws came from Jerusalem [to talk to] Jesus. They said,
Busuba nabumbi Bafalisi ne beshikwiyisha Milawo ya Mose nabambi balesa kuli Yesu kufumina ku Yelusalemu, balamwipusheti,
2 “(We think it is disgusting that your disciples disobey the traditions of our ancestors!/Why do your disciples disobey [what our ancestors wrote down and] our [elders taught us]?) [RHQ] They do not perform the proper ritual of washing their hands before they eat!”
Nipacebo cini beshikwiya benu nkabalasungunga mwambo wa bakulukulu? Nkabalasambanga kumakasa balyanga cakulya.
3 Jesus answered them, “(What is really disgusting is that you refuse to obey God’s commands [just] so that you can follow what your ancestors taught you!/Why do you refuse to obey what God commanded [people to do, just] so that you can follow your own traditions?) [RHQ]
Nendi Yesu walabakumbuleti, “Inga ne njamwe mukute kusulila cani Milawo ya Lesa, ne kuyuminina nta ku mwambo wamashali benu bakulukulu?”
4 God gave these [two] commands: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘People who speak evil about their father or mother must be executed.’
Lesa walambeti, “Kopa bulemu baiso ne banyoko kayi kwambeti, uyo lanyanshanga baishi ne banyina welela kushinwa nditu.
5 But you tell people, ‘You can say to your father or mother, “What I was going to give to you [to help provide for you], [I have now promised] to give [to God].”’
Nsombi amwe mukute kwambeti, ‘Muntu ambila baishi, nambi banyina, eti, mbyondayandanga kumunyamfwani, ndabibenge kuli Lesa,
6 And if you do that, you think that you do not need to give anything to help your parents. In [that way], [by teaching people] your traditions, you disregard what God commanded.
nteko kwambeti uyo uliya kupa bulemu baishi,’ Cebo ca mwambo wenuwo Maswi a Lesa akute kuba abulyo.”
7 You only pretend to be good! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you [also when he quoted what God said about your ancestors. God said],
Amwe bantu bandemi shibili, mushinshimi Yesaya walamba cakubinga mpwalambeti,
8 ‘These people talk [as if they] honor me [MTY], but they do not think about honoring me at all [MET].
“Bantu aba bakute kumpa bulemu bwa pamulomo nsombi moyo wabo ulikutali ne njame.
9 It is useless for them to worship me, because they teach what people thought up [as if I myself had commanded it].’”
Ee, bakute kunkambilila, nsombi kunkambilila kulico ni kwabulyo, pakwinga mbyobakute kwiyisha, nteyo milawo yakame, nsombi niya bantu.”
10 Then Jesus [again] summoned the crowd to come [nearer] to him. Then he said to them, “Listen to [what I am about to tell you], and [try to] understand it.
Panyuma pakendi Yesu walabakuwa bantu basa, kwambeti bese pepi ne kubambileti, “Kamunyumfwani, kayi munyumfwishishe cena,
11 Nothing that a person puts into his mouth [to eat] causes [God to consider] that person to be unacceptable. Instead, it is [the words] that come out of people’s mouths [SYN] that cause [God to reject them].”
cintu cikute kwingila mu mulomo, nteco cikute kwipisha muntu sobwe, nsombi cisa cikute kupula pamulomo pakendi endico cikute kwipisha muntu.”
12 Later we disciples went to Jesus and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees heard what you said, and as a result they felt offended [RHQ]?”
Popelapo beshikwiya bakendi nabo balamwipusheti, “Sena mucinshi kwambeti mubalabanyufwishi nsoni Bafalisi ne ncomulamba?”
13 Then, [to teach us what God would do to the Pharisees], Jesus told [us this parable]: “My Father in heaven [will] get rid of all [those who teach things that are contrary to his truth, just like a farmer] gets rid of plants that he did not plant, by pulling them up along with their roots [MET].
Yesu walambeti, “Imbuto iliyonse yabula kubyalwa ne Bata bakwilu, ni katumunwe.
14 Do not pay any attention to [the Pharisees]. They [do not help people who do not know God’s truth] to [understand it, just like] blind guides [do not help] blind [people to perceive where they should go] [MET]. If a blind person [tries to] lead [another] blind person, they will both fall into a big hole [MET]. [Similarly, both the Pharisees and their disciples will end up in hell].” (questioned)
Balekeni, aba nibatangunishi bashipilwa babantu bashipilwa, Lino na washipilwa utangunina washipilwa munendi, babili bonse ni bakawile mucisengu.”
15 Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable [about what a person eats].”
Pacindici nendi Petulo walamwipusha Yesu kwambeti, “Tupandululwileni mukoshanyowu.”
16 He replied [to them], “(I am disappointed that even you, [who should understand what I teach], still do not understand!/Why is it that even you [who should understand what I teach], still do not understand?) [RHQ]
Yesu walambeti, “Anu ne njamwe kayi nkamulanyumfwishishinga?
17 (You ought to understand that all [food that people] eat enters their stomachs, and later the refuse passes out of their [bodies]./Cannot you understand that all [food that people] eat enters their stomachs and later the refuse passes out [of their bodies]?) [RHQ] [Because food does not alter what we think and desire, what we eat does not cause God to consider that we are unacceptable to him].
Sena kamucinshi kwambeti, ciliconse cilengilinga mumulomo cikute kwingila mulibunda mwakendi, ne kuya kucitaila kucisuwa?
18 [You should know that] what comes out of [people’s] mouths, [meaning everything that they say] [SYN], comes from their inner beings/hearts. Many of the [things that they say] cause [God to consider] them to be unacceptable [to him].
Nomba bilapulunga mu mulomo wa muntu bikute kufuma mumoyo, neco, ibi ebikute kumwipisha.
19 It is people’s innermost beings that [cause them] to think things that are evil, to murder people, to [commit] adultery, to commit other sexual sins, to steal things, to testify falsely, and to speak evil about [others].
Pakwinga mu myoyo ya bantu emukute kufuma manjeyaulwa aipa, nambi akushina nambi abupombo nambi abufule nambi akwiba nambi abukamboni bwabwepeshi, kayi ne abufwiyishi.
20 It is these actions that cause [God to consider] people to be unacceptable [to him]. To eat with unwashed hands does not cause [God to consider] people unacceptable to him.”
Ibi ebikute kwipisha muntu. Nteko kulya cakulya kwakubula kusamba kumakasa sobwe.”
21 After Jesus [took us and] left [Galilee district], we went into the region [where the cities of] Tyre and Sidon [are located].
Yesu walafumako, ne kuya kubibela bya Tulo ne Sidoni.
22 A woman [from the group of people called] Canaanites who live in that region came [to the place where Jesus was staying]. She kept shouting [to him], “Lord, you are the descendant of [King] David, [you are the Messiah!] Have pity on me [and my daughter!] She is suffering very much because a demon controls her.”
Mutukashi naumbi mu Kenani wamucibela ca kopeloko, walesa kuli Yesu, kabilikisheti, “Kamunyumfwilako nkumbo, Nkambo, Mobana bendi Dafeti. Mwaname mutukashi lapenge kwine pakwinga wekatwa ne mushimu waipa.”
23 But Jesus did not answer her at all. [We] disciples came to him, and [knowing that the woman was not a Jew], we said to him, “Tell her to leave, because she keeps [bothering us] by yelling behind us!”
Nomba Yesu uliya kumukumbulapo. Beshikwiya bakendi Yesu balesa kumusengeti, “Anu kamumwambilani enga, bonani latuyobekelenga.”
24 But Jesus said [to her], “I have been sent {[God] has sent me} to [help] only the Israelite people [at this time] [SYN]. [They are like] sheep that have gotten lost [MET] [because they do not know the way to heaven].”
Nendi Yesu walambeti, “Ame ndalatumwa ku mbelele shataika sha Baislayeli.”
25 But she came [closer] to Jesus and knelt down in front of him [to worship him]. She pled, “Lord/Sir, help me!”
Mutukashi usa walasuntama, ne kwambeti, “Kamunyamfwilishako Nkambo.”
26 Then, [to suggest to her that he needed to help the Jews first and not the non-Jews, whom the Jews called dogs], he told her, “It is not good [for someone] to take food [that has been prepared for] the children and throw it to the [little] dogs.”
Yesu walamwambileti, “Nkacaina kupa bakabwa cakulya cabana.”
27 [But to show that she believed that non-Jews could also receive help from God], the woman said [to Jesus], “Lord/Sir, what you [say is] correct, but even the [little] dogs eat the crumbs that fall to the floor [when] their masters [sit at] their tables [and eat]!”
Mutukashi usa walambeti, “Ee, nicakubinga Nkambo, nomba ntepasa bakabwa bakute nabo kubweselela bilalakanga panshi alyanga mwine ng'anda.”
28 Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, [because] you believe firmly [in me, I] will [heal your daughter] as you desire!” At that moment [the demon left] her daughter, [and she] became well.
Nendi Yesu walambeti, “Obe mutukashi lushomo lwakobe ni lunene, cinshike nditu ncolayandanga.” Popelapo mwanendi mutukashi usa walabacena.
29 After Jesus, [along with us disciples], departed from that area, we went [back] to Galilee Lake [and walked] along it. Then Jesus climbed the hill [near there] and sat down [to teach the people].
Kufumapo, Yesu walaya kwendana mu mbali mwa lwenje lwa Galileya, kayi walatanta mulundu ne kwikala panshi kopeloko.
30 Crowds kept coming to him for the next two days and brought lame, crippled, and blind people, those who were unable to talk, and many others [who had various sicknesses]. They laid them in front of Jesus [so that he would heal them] [SYN]. And he healed them.
Nomba bantu bangi balesa kuli Yesu, balamuletela balwashi, balema myendo ne bashipilwa ne balemana ne bacibulu ne nabambi. mpobalikubaleta pantangu pakendi, walikabasengula bonse.
31 The crowd saw [him heal] people who could not talk, crippled people, lame people, and blind people, and they were amazed. They said, “Praise God [who rules over us who live in] Israel!”
Lino bantu bangi balakankamana, pakubona bacibulu kabamba, balemana kabasengulwa, balema myendo basa kabenda, kayi bashipilwa kabacikonsha kubona, neco balamutembaula Lesa wa Baislayeli.
32 Then Jesus called us disciples to him and said [to us], “This crowd [of people] has been with me for three days and have nothing [left] to eat. I feel sorry for them. I do not want to send them away [while they are still] hungry, [because if I did that], they might faint on the way [home].”
Yesu walakuwa beshikwiya bakendi nekubambileti, “Ame ndabanyumfwilinga luse bantu aba, pakwinga balekala ne njame kwa masuba atatu, kayi kwakubula cakulya. Nkansuni kubambileti, benga kwabo ne nsala kabatana balyapo, pakwinga ngabawisuka bayanga munshila.”
33 We disciples said to him, “In this place where nobody lives, (we cannot possibly obtain enough food to feed such a large crowd!/how can we obtain a large enough amount of food to feed such a large crowd?) [RHQ]”
Beshikwiya bakendi balamwipusheti, “Inga kucisuwa kuno ngatucicana kupeyo cakulya celela kukwana bantu bangi cisa?”
34 Jesus asked us, “How many small loaves do you have?” We said to him, “[We have] seven small loaves and a few [cooked] fish.”
Nendi Yesu walabepusheti, “Inga mukuteko shinkwa ungaye?” Balo balamukumbuleti, “Usanu ne ubili, kayi ne tunswi twakubelengowa.”
35 He told the people to sit on the ground.
Yesu walabambila bantu basa kwambeti bekale panshi.
36 Then he took the seven small loaves and the fish. After he thanked [God for them], he broke them [into pieces], and he kept giving [them] to us. Then we [kept distributing] them to the crowd.
Panyuma pakendi walamanta shinkwa usanu ne ubili usa ne nswi, walalumba Lesa, ne kukomona komona shinkwa, walapa beshikwiya bakendi, nabo balayabila bantu.
37 [Because Jesus made the food multiply miraculously], all [those people] ate and had [plenty to] satisfy [them]. There were 4,000 men [who ate], but no [one counted] the women and the children [who also ate]. Then we [disciples] collected the pieces of food that were left over, and we filled seven large baskets [with them].
Bantu bonse balalya, balekuta. Balayowela byalashalapo ne kwisusha mitanga isanu ne ibili.
Lino bantu bonse pamo balalya balikuba batuloba myanda makumi ana, kutabelengela kumo batukashi ne batwanike.
39 After Jesus dismissed the crowd, he, [along with us], got in the boat, and we sailed [around the lake] to the region called Magadan.
Panyuma pakulayana ne bantu basa, Yesu walatanta bwato walaya kucibela ca Magadani.
