Malako 4
1 Yesu abandaki lisusu koteya pembeni ya ebale. Bato ebele basanganaki pembeni na Ye. Boye, amataki mpe avandaki kati na bwato, mpe bato nyonso batelemaki na mokili, pembeni ya ebale.
Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.
2 Azalaki koteya bango makambo ebele na masese. Na mateya na Ye, azalaki koloba:
Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,
3 « Boyoka! Moloni moko abimaki mpo na kolona.
"Listen: the sower goes out to sow.
4 Wana azalaki kobwaka nkona na ye, ndambo ekweyaki pembeni ya nzela; bandeke eyaki mpe eliaki yango.
As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.
5 Ndambo mosusu ekweyaki na esika etonda na mabanga, esika oyo mabele ezalaki mingi te; ebimisaki mito noki mpo ete mabele yango ezalaki na bozindo te.
Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;
6 Kasi tango moyi ebimaki, mito yango ezikaki mpo ete ezalaki na misisa te.
but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.
7 Ndambo mosusu ekweyaki kati na banzube; banzube ekolaki mpe efinaki-finaki yango. Boye, ebotaki bambuma te.
Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.
8 Ndambo mosusu ekweyaki na mabele ya malamu; ebimisaki mito, ekolaki mpe ebotaki bambuma: nkona moko ebotaki bambuma tuku misato; mosusu, bambuma tuku motoba; mpe mosusu, bambuma nkama moko. »
But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold."
9 Yesu azalaki lisusu koloba: « Tika ete moto oyo azali na matoyi mpo na koyoka ayoka! »
"Listen," He added, "every one who has ears to listen with!"
10 Tango atikalaki Ye moko, bantoma zomi na mibale elongo na bato oyo bazingelaki Ye batunaki Ye na tina na masese.
When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.
11 Yesu alobaki na bango: — Epesameli bino koyeba mabombami ya Bokonzi ya Nzambe; kasi mpo na ba-oyo bazali na libanda, makambo nyonso ezali kotalisama na masese;
"To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;
12 mpo ete: atako bakoki kotala, bamona eloko te; mpe atako bakoki koyoka, basosola eloko te; noki te bakobongola mitema, mpe masumu na bango ekolimbisama.
that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"
13 Bongo Yesu alobaki na bango: — Boni, bososoli lisese oyo te? Ndenge nini bokososola masese mosusu?
"Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?" He added; "how then will you understand the rest of my parables?"
14 Moloni alonaka Liloba.
"What the sower sows is the Message.
15 Bato mosusu bazali pembeni ya nzela epai wapi Liloba elonami. Tango kaka bayoki Liloba, Satana ayei mpe alongoli Liloba oyo elonami kati na mitema na bango.
Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.
16 Bamosusu bazali lokola nkona oyo ekweyi na mabele etonda na mabanga: bayoki na bango Liloba mpe bayambi yango mbala moko na esengo;
In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,
17 kasi lokola bazali na misisa te kati na bango, bakowumela na Liloba yango kaka mpo na tango moke. Soki kaka, likolo ya Liloba, pasi to minyoko eyei, basundoli mbala moko kondima na bango.
but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.
18 Bamosusu bazali lokola nkona oyo ekweyi kati na banzube: bayoki na bango Liloba;
Others there are who receive the seed among the thorns: these are they who have heard the Message,
19 kasi mitungisi ya bomoi, lokoso ya bomengo mpe baposa ya makambo ya mokili efini-fini Liloba kati na bango, boye ekotikala kobota bambuma te kati na bango. (aiōn g165)
but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful. (aiōn g165)
20 Bamosusu bazali lokola nkona oyo ekweyi na mabele ya malamu: bayoki malamu Liloba, bandimi yango mpe baboti bambuma; moko aboti bambuma tuku misato; mosusu, bambuma tuku motoba; mpe mosusu lisusu, bambuma nkama moko.
Those, on the other hand, who have received the seed on the good ground, are all who hear the Message and welcome it, and yield a return of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."
21 Yesu alobaki na bango lisusu: — Boni, bamemaka solo mwinda mpo na kotia yango na se ya katini to na se ya mbeto? Ezali te mpo na kotia yango na likolo ya etelemiselo ya minda?
He went on to say, "Is the lamp brought in in order to be put under the bushel or under the bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand?
22 Pamba te eloko moko te ebombama ekozanga komonisama, mpe eloko moko te ya sekele ekozanga kobima na pole.
Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.
23 Tika ete moto azali na matoyi mpo na koyoka ayoka!
Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
24 Alobaki lisusu: — Bosala keba na makambo oyo bozali koyoka! Bakomeka bino na emekelo kaka oyo bino bosalelaka mpo na komeka bato mosusu, mpe bakobakisa kutu lisusu koleka;
He also said to them, "Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest.
25 pamba te na moto oyo azali na eloko, bakopesa ye lisusu; kasi na moto oyo azangi, bakobotola ye ata oyo azali na yango.
For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away."
26 Yesu alobaki lisusu: — Bokonzi ya Nzambe ekokani na moto oyo abwaki nkona na mabele:
Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:
27 butu mpe moyi, alala to alamuka, nkona ebimisaka moto, ekolaka yango moko mpe ayebaka te ndenge nini yango ezali kokola;
he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
28 pamba te yango moko mabele nde ebimisaka mbuma: liboso, moto ya nzete; sima, matiti; mpe na suka, bambuma ya ble etondaka na nzete.
Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.
29 Bongo soki bambuma ekomeli, azwaka mbala moko mbeli oyo bakataka na yango matiti ya ble, pamba te eleko ya kobuka bambuma ekoki.
But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."
30 Yesu alobaki lisusu: — Bokonzi ya Nzambe ekokani na nini? Tokoki kosalela lisese nini mpo na kokokanisa yango?
Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?
31 Bokonzi ya Likolo ekokani na nkona ya mutarde: tango balonaka yango, ezalaka nkona oyo eleki moke kati na bankona nyonso ya mokili.
It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;
32 Kasi sima na kolona yango, ekokola mpe ekomaka molayi koleka ndunda nyonso ya elanga, ebimisaka bitape minene oyo esalaka ete bandeke ya likolo etonga zala na se ya pio na yango.
yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow."
33 Yesu azalaki kosalela masese ya ndenge na ndenge mpo na koteya bango Liloba na Nzambe, kolanda bososoli na bango;
With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it.
34 azangaki te kosalela masese mpo na koloba na bango. Kasi soki atikali Ye moko elongo na bayekoli na Ye, azalaki kolimbola makambo nyonso.
But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.
35 Kaka na mokolo yango wana, wana pokwa ekomaki, Yesu alobaki na bayekoli na Ye: — Tokatisa na ngambo mosusu ya ebale.
The same day, in the evening, He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side."
36 Batikaki bato, bamemaki Ye na bwato mpe bakatisaki na ngambo mosusu. Babwato mosusu mpe ezalaki elongo na bango.
So they got away from the crowd, and took Him--as He was--in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.
37 Mopepe moko ya makasi ekomaki kopepa, mbonge ekomaki kobeta na bwato, mpe bwato ekomaki kotonda na mayi.
But a heavy squall came on, and the waves were now dashing into the boat, so that it was fast filling.
38 Yesu azalaki na sima, alalaki pongi mpe atiaki moto na likolo ya kuse. Bayekoli balamusaki Ye mpe bayebisaki Ye na koganga: — Moteyi, tozali kokufa; mpe ozali komitungisa na Yo te?
But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion: so they woke Him. "Rabbi," they cried, "is it nothing to you that we are drowning?"
39 Yesu alamukaki, agangelaki mopepe, mpe apesaki mitindo na ebale: — Tika makelele! Vanda nye! Mopepe esilaki, mpe kimia monene ezongaki.
So He roused Himself and rebuked the wind, and said to the waves, "Silence! Be still!" The wind sank, and a perfect calm set in.
40 Bongo alobaki na bayekoli na Ye: — Mpo na nini bozali kobanga? Bozali nanu na kondima te?
"Why are you so timid?" He asked; "have you still no faith?"
41 Somo monene ekotaki kati na bango mpe bakomaki kolobana bango na bango: « Moto oyo azali penza nani mpo ete mopepe mpe ebale etosa ye? »
Then they were filled with terror, and began to say to one another, "Who is this, then? For even wind and sea obey Him."
