Matthew 22
1 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables.
Jisu ih tiitthaak ah mih suh nyootsoot suh maak ruh eta.
2 “The Kingdom of Heaven,” he said, “may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honour of his son’s wedding.
“Rangmong Hasong ah arah likhiik. Ehak di luungwang wasiit ih heh sah kuhoon raangtaan ih phaksat khookhamta.
3 He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come.
Eno heh laksuh loong asuh wenwah loong ah kuhoon sadung raangtaan ih poonkaat thukta, enoothong miloong ah tanook rumta.
4 A second time he sent some servants, with orders to say to those who had been invited ‘I have prepared my breakfast, my cattle and fat beasts are killed and everything is ready; come to the banquet.’
Erah thoih heh laksuh wahoh loong ah wenwah loong poon we daapkaatta, amet baat ano ah: ‘Amadi sadung tok elang ela; nga maanpong etot ah nyia maansah loong ah joot angno, kuhoon phaksat ah khookham etang. Kuhoon sadung ah phaksah wanghan!’
5 They, however, took no notice, but went off, one to his farm, another to his business;
Enoothong wenwah loong ah ih lathaang chaat thang ih maama mootkaat ni karumta: mararah heh phek ni kata, mararah pheehoon theng ni kata,
6 while the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them.
rukho loong ah ih heh laksuh ah joh rum ano, tekbuh rumta.
7 The king, in anger, sent his troops, put those murderers to death, and set their city on fire.
luungwang ah rapne ih khata; eno heh sipaahi loong ah daapkaat ano, laksuh tek haatte loong ah weethem tek haat, neng hadaang ah rok haat et rumta.
8 Then he said to his servants ‘The banquet is prepared, but those who were invited were not worthy.
Eno heh laksuh loong ah lompoon rum ano baatta, ‘Kuhoon phaksat ah jen khookham cho, ngah ih maat rumtang wenwah loong ah aanah jen wang theethe tah ang rumka.
9 So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’
Eno bah amadoh sen ih kah ano lam nah mina mathan japtup an erah thoontang poon wanhan.’
10 The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests.
Eno heh laksuh loong ah karum ano lam nawa mathan ethih ese mina chotup rumta loong ah lompoon wanrumta, eno kuhoon nok ah nep meeta.
11 But, when the king went in to see his guests, he noticed there a man who had not put on a wedding-robe.
“Eno luungwang ah ih wenwah loong ah sokkah rum ano heh ih kuhoon choomdi lachoomte ah japtupta.
12 So he said to him ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding-robe?’ The man was speechless.
‘Nga joonwah, an aadi kuhoon choom muh mame nop halu?’ Luungwang ih chengta. Eno erah mih ah tumjih uh tajengta.
13 Then the king said to the attendants ‘Tie him hand and foot, and ‘put him out into the darkness’ outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’
Eno luungwang ih heh laksuh loong asuh baatta, ‘Erah mih ah helak helah ah khak anno, laamang nah haatkaat an. Erah nah heh pha ah phak ano toom huung ah.’”
14 For many are called, but few chosen.”
Eno Jisu ih thoonbaatta, “Mih hantek poonta, dowa ene ko ah danjeeha.”
15 Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a snare for Jesus in the course of conversation.
Pharisi loong ah dokkhoom rum ano Jisu suh mat deenjoot suh cheng rumta.
16 They sent their disciples, with the Herodians, to say to him: “Teacher, we know that you are an honest man, and that you teach the way of God honestly, and are not afraid of any one; for you pay no regard to a man’s position.
Eno Pharisi loong liphante nyi Hirod mina loong ih Jisu reeni daapkaat rumta. Eno neng ih liita, “Nyootte,” “Seng ih jat etti an ih ami tiit baat uh. Mina suh Rangte ih tumjih thunha erah jun ih nyootte an ah, mina ih tumjih liibaat ah ih an tasootsamko, tumeah an ih mina ah ehin elong tadandeeko.
17 Tell us, then, what you think. Are we right in paying taxes to the Emperor, or not?”
Erah ang abah, seng suh baat he, an ih tumjih thunhu? Seng Hootthe jun ih Roman luungwang suh sokse ah ejen kot tam tajen koke?”
18 Perceiving their malice, Jesus answered: “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?
Jisu ih neng ethih tenthun ah ejat etta eno liita, “Lonoite loong! Sen loong ih nga mat deenjoot ah tumet suh taatwoot chung han?
19 Show me the coin with which the tax is paid.” And, when they had brought him a florin,
Sokse o suh kotjih ah ngah suh jaanngun ah noisok thaak he!” Neng ih jaanngun ah piiwan rumta,
20 he asked: “Whose head and title are these?”
eno heh ih neng suh chengta, “Arah ngun adi o theeakhoh nyia o men ah?”
21 “The Emperor’s,” they answered: on which he said to them: “Then pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.”
“Luungwanglong men, neng ih ngaakbaat rumta. Eno Jisu ih neng suh li rumta, “Ese, erah ang abah ah sen ih Luungwanglong thiik ah Luungwanglong suh koh an, Rangte thiik ah Rangte suh koh an.”
22 They wondered at his answer, and left him alone and went away.
Neng ih erah chaat rum ano epaatja ih rumta, eno Jisu re nawa dokkhoom karumta.
23 That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this: —
Erah saasa adi mararah Sadusi loong Jisu jiinni wang rum haano mina tek nawa tangaaksaatka ih laat chaangmui rumta.
24 “Teacher, Moses said — ‘should a man die without children, the man’s brother shall become the husband of the widow, and raise a family for his brother.’
“Nyootte,” Moses ih liita miwah heh sah maangje doh mok ti abah, heh minuh ah hephoh heno ih jaatjaat kapjih tumeah heh sah rah etek teewah sah et thiik suh ah.
25 Now we had living among us seven brothers; of whom the eldest married and died, and, as he had no family, left his wife for his brother.
Ehak di soophoh wasinet aani tongte kah angta. Phokhothoon ah ih heh minuh ah kap ano heh sah maangje di mattiita, eno heh minuh rah heh no wasiit rah ih we kapta.
26 The same thing happened to the second and the third brothers, and indeed to all the seven.
Eno erah warah uh emamah we tiita, erah lilih wasiit we mattiita, emamah soophoh wasinet ah matti wang rumta.
27 The woman herself died last of all.
Hethoondi, minuh ah thoon tiita.
28 At the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be out of the seven, all of them having had her?”
Erah ang abah, etekte loong ah ngaaksaat jaadoh, erah nuh ah o minuh ang ah? Loongtang ah heh miwah totoh angta.”
29 “Your mistake,” replied Jesus, “is due to your ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the power of God.
Jisu ih ngaakbaat rumta, “Sen loong ih mamah lajat ehan! Tumeah sen ih Rangteele ni raangha rah nyia hechaan ah tajatkan.
30 For at the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but all who rise are as angels in Heaven.
Etek nawa ngaakthing adoh neng ah Rangsah loong likhiik ang ah, neng ih minuh takap rumka.
31 As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God —
Tek nawa ngaaksaat tiit ah Rangteele ni tanih jap wetan? Rangte ih liita,
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of dead men, but of living.”
‘Ngah Abraham Rangte, Isak Rangte, nyia Jaakob Rangte.’ Heh ah tekcho Rangte tah angka ething Rangte.”
33 The crowds, who had been listening to him, were greatly struck with his teaching.
Miloong ah erah nyootta ah chaat rum ano, rapne ih paatja rumta.
34 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they collected together.
Jisu ih Sadusi loong suh lakah miijeng thang ih li rumta ah Pharisi loong ih japchaat rum ano, neng ah lomkhoom rumta,
35 Then one of them, a Student of the Law, to test him, asked this question —
eno neng dung nawa wasiit, Hootthe nyootte ih Jisu suh, mat deenjoot suh chengta.
36 “Teacher, what is the great commandment in the Law?”
“Nyootte,” “Hootthe ni elongthoon jengdang tumjih ah?”
37 His answer was: “‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.’
Jisu ih ngaakbaatta, “‘An Teesu Rangte ah anten anmong nyia anthung antak adoleh anchi anla ah koh uno minchan uh.’
38 This is the great first commandment.
Erah ah ajuuba thoontang nang ih elongthoon nyia ehan et maakjih.
39 The second, which is like it, is this — ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thou dost thyself.’
Erah lilih jengdang elongthoon ah arah likhiik: ‘Ankhuung antok ah an teewah thanthan ih minchan uh.’
40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Moses Hootthe nyia khowah loong ih nyootta ah thoontang arah enyi jengdang adi roopla.”
41 Before the Pharisees separated, Jesus put this question to them —
Mararah Pharisi loong lomtong rum adi, Jisu ih cheng rumta,
42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” “David’s,” they said.
“Sen ih Kristo asuh o ah et thunhan? Heh ah o suh o sah ah?” “Heh ah Dewid sutoom,” neng ih ngaakbaatta.
43 “How is it, then,” Jesus replied, “that David, speaking under inspiration, calls him ‘lord,’ in the passage —
“Eno Jisu ih chengta, erah ang abah, mamah ah,” “Chiiala ih Dewid suh ‘Teesu’ ih poon uh ih tam baatta? Dewid ih liita,
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I put thy enemies beneath thy feet”’?
‘Rangte ih nga Teesu suh liita: arah doh nga jaawako adoh tong uh anpi anra loong ah ngah ih an lathong nah maang thokthok thiin ah.’
45 Since, then, David calls him ‘lord,’ how is he David’s son?”
Erah ang abah, Dewid ih ‘Teesu’ ih poon abah, Kristo ah Dewid sutoom mamangla?
46 No one could say a word in answer; nor did any one after that day venture to question him further.
O reh uh Jisu suh tami ngaakbaat rumta, eno erah sa dowa ih o reh uh ehan jengkhaap tanaan cheng rumta.
