မထိး 10
1 အနန္တရံ ယီၑု ရ္ဒွါဒၑၑိၐျာန် အာဟူယာမေဓျဘူတာန် တျာဇယိတုံ သရွွပြကာရရောဂါန် ပီဍာၑ္စ ၑမယိတုံ တေဘျး သာမရ္ထျမဒါတ်၊
He told [us] twelve disciples to come to him. Then he gave us the power/authority to expel evil spirits [that controlled people]. He also enabled [us] to heal all people who had diseases or who were sick.
2 တေၐာံ ဒွါဒၑပြေၐျာဏာံ နာမာနျေတာနိ၊ ပြထမံ ၑိမောန် ယံ ပိတရံ ဝဒန္တိ, တတး ပရံ တသျ သဟဇ အာန္ဒြိယး, သိဝဒိယသျ ပုတြော ယာကူဗ္
[Here is a list of us] twelve [disciples whom he called] apostles ([which means ‘messengers’]): Simon, [to whom he gave the new name] Peter; Andrew, Peter’s [younger] brother; James, the son of Zebedee; John, the [younger] brother of James;
3 တသျ သဟဇော ယောဟန်; ဖိလိပ် ဗရ္ထလမယ် ထောမား ကရသံဂြာဟီ မထိး, အာလ္ဖေယပုတြော ယာကူဗ်,
Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; me, Matthew, the tax collector; James, the [son] of Alpheus; Thaddeus;
4 ကိနာနီယး ၑိမောန်, ယ ဤၐ္ကရိယောတီယယိဟူဒါး ခြီၐ္ဋံ ပရကရေ'ရ္ပယတ်၊
Simon, a member of the party [that wanted to overthrow the Roman government; ] and Judas Iscariot (OR, Judas, the man from Kerioth [Town]), who [later] enabled [the Jewish leaders] to seize Jesus.
5 ဧတာန် ဒွါဒၑၑိၐျာန် ယီၑုး ပြေၐယန် ဣတျာဇ္ဉာပယတ်, ယူယမ် အနျဒေၑီယာနာံ ပဒဝီံ ၑေမိရောဏီယာနာံ ကိမပိ နဂရဉ္စ န ပြဝိၑျေ
When Jesus was [about to] send [us] twelve [apostles to tell his message to people in various places], he gave [us] these instructions: “Do not go where the non-Jews live [MTY] or into the towns [where the] Samaritans live, [because they hate you].
6 ဣသြာယေလ္ဂောတြသျ ဟာရိတာ ယေ ယေ မေၐာသ္တေၐာမေဝ သမီပံ ယာတ၊
Instead, go to the people of Israel [SYN] who have [gone away from God like] sheep that have gotten lost [MET].
7 ဂတွာ ဂတွာ သွရ္ဂသျ ရာဇတွံ သဝိဓမဘဝတ်, ဧတာံ ကထာံ ပြစာရယတ၊
When you go [to them], proclaim to them that God [EUP/MTY] will soon begin to rule over people.
8 အာမယဂြသ္တာန် သွသ္ထာန် ကုရုတ, ကုၐ္ဌိနး ပရိၐ္ကုရုတ, မၖတလောကာန် ဇီဝယတ, ဘူတာန် တျာဇယတ, ဝိနာ မူလျံ ယူယမ် အလဘဓွံ ဝိနဲဝ မူလျံ ဝိၑြာဏယတ၊
Heal sick people, cause dead people to become alive, heal people who have leprosy, and cause demons to leave people [who are controlled by them] {[whom demons control]}. Do not charge money [for helping people, because God] did not charge you anything [for helping you].
9 ကိန္တု သွေၐာံ ကဋိဗန္ဓေၐု သွရ္ဏရူပျတာမြာဏာံ ကိမပိ န ဂၖဟ္လီတ၊
Do not take any money with you [MTY], nor a knapsack. Do not take an extra shirt, nor sandals [in addition to what you are wearing], nor a walking stick. Every worker deserves to get pay [from the people for whom he works], [so you deserve to receive food and a place to stay from the people to whom you go].
10 အနျစ္စ ယာတြာယဲ စေလသမ္ပုဋံ ဝါ ဒွိတီယဝသနံ ဝါ ပါဒုကေ ဝါ ယၐ္ဋိး, ဧတာန် မာ ဂၖဟ္လီတ, ယတး ကာရျျကၖတ် ဘရ္တ္တုံ ယောဂျော ဘဝတိ၊
11 အပရံ ယူယံ ယတ် ပုရံ ယဉ္စ ဂြာမံ ပြဝိၑထ, တတြ ယော ဇနော ယောဂျပါတြံ တမဝဂတျ ယာနကာလံ ယာဝတ် တတြ တိၐ္ဌတ၊
In whatever town or village you enter, find out which person is worthy [that you should stay in his home]. And as you go into that house, [ask God to] bless the people [who live there] [MTY]. Stay in that home until you leave [that town or village].
12 ယဒါ ယူယံ တဒ္ဂေဟံ ပြဝိၑထ, တဒါ တမာၑိၐံ ဝဒတ၊
13 ယဒိ သ ယောဂျပါတြံ ဘဝတိ, တရှိ တတ္ကလျာဏံ တသ္မဲ ဘဝိၐျတိ, နောစေတ် သာၑီရျုၐ္မဘျမေဝ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
If the people who live in [MTY] that house are worthy [of being blessed] {[God blessing them]}, [God] will bless them. If the people who live in that house are not worthy [of being blessed] {[of God blessing them]}, [God] will bless you [instead of blessing them].
14 ကိန္တု ယေ ဇနာ ယုၐ္မာကမာတိထျံ န ဝိဒဓတိ ယုၐ္မာကံ ကထာဉ္စ န ၑၖဏွန္တိ တေၐာံ ဂေဟာတ် ပုရာဒွါ ပြသ္ထာနကာလေ သွပဒူလီး ပါတယတ၊
If the people [who live in any house or town] do not welcome you [to their home or town], nor listen to your message, leave that house or town. And as you leave, shake off the dust from your feet. [By doing that, you will warn them that God will punish them for rejecting your message].
15 ယုၐ္မာနဟံ တထျံ ဝစ္မိ ဝိစာရဒိနေ တတ္ပုရသျ ဒၑာတး သိဒေါမမောရာပုရယောရ္ဒၑာ သဟျတရာ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
Note this carefully: [At the time when God] judges [all people, he] will punish [the people who lived in] Sodom and Gomorrah [MTY], [the ancient cities which God destroyed because their people were extremely wicked]. But in any town where the people [MTY] refuse to hear your message, God will punish them even more severely.”
16 ပၑျတ, ဝၖကယူထမဓျေ မေၐး ယထာဝိသ္တထာ ယုၐ္မာန ပြဟိဏောမိ, တသ္မာဒ် ယူယမ် အဟိရိဝ သတရ္ကား ကပေါတာဣဝါဟိံသကာ ဘဝတ၊
“Take note: After I send you out, [you will be as defenseless] as sheep [MET] in the midst of [people who are as dangerous as] wolves. So you should wisely [stay away from such people, like you stay away from poisonous] snakes [SIM]. You should be as harmless as doves are [SIM].
17 နၖဘျး သာဝဓာနာ ဘဝတ; ယတသ္တဲ ရျူယံ ရာဇသံသဒိ သမရ္ပိၐျဓွေ တေၐာံ ဘဇနဂေဟေ ပြဟာရိၐျဓွေ၊
Also, be on guard against [our religious leaders]. They will arrest you and take you to the members of the religious councils [to put you on trial and punish you because you are my disciples]. You will be whipped {The local leaders will whip you} [in] their meeting places.
18 ယူယံ မန္နာမဟေတေား ၑာသ္တၖဏာံ ရာဇ္ဉာဉ္စ သမက္ၐံ တာနနျဒေၑိနၑ္စာဓိ သာက္ၐိတွာရ္ထမာနေၐျဓွေ၊
[And] because [you teach] about me, you will be taken {[the religious leaders] will take you} to governors and kings [in order that they may put you on trial and punish you]. As a result, you will testify to those rulers and to [other] non-Jews [about what I have done].
19 ကိန္တွိတ္ထံ သမရ္ပိတာ ယူယံ ကထံ ကိမုတ္တရံ ဝက္ၐျထ တတြ မာ စိန္တယတ, ယတသ္တဒါ ယုၐ္မာဘိ ရျဒ် ဝက္တဝျံ တတ် တဒ္ဒဏ္ဍေ ယုၐ္မန္မနး သု သမုပသ္ထာသျတိ၊
When [the religious leaders] arrest you, do not be worried about what you will say [to them], because at that very time [the] Holy Spirit will tell you the words that you should say.
20 ယသ္မာတ် တဒါ ယော ဝက္ၐျတိ သ န ယူယံ ကိန္တု ယုၐ္မာကမန္တရသ္ထး ပိတြာတ္မာ၊
It is not that you [will decide what to] say. Instead, you will say what the Spirit of your [heavenly] Father tells [you to say].
21 သဟဇး သဟဇံ တာတး သုတဉ္စ မၖတော် သမရ္ပယိၐျတိ, အပတျာဂိ သွသွပိတြော ရွိပက္ၐီဘူယ တော် ဃာတယိၐျန္တိ၊
[You will be taken] {[People who do not believe in me will] take you} to the authorities to be killed [because you believe in me. For example], people will betray their brothers, and fathers will betray their children. Children will rebel against their parents and cause [them] to be killed.
22 မန္နမဟေတေား သရွွေ ဇနာ ယုၐ္မာန် ၒတီယိၐျန္တေ, ကိန္တု ယး ၑေၐံ ယာဝဒ် ဓဲရျျံ ဃၖတွာ သ္ထာသျတိ, သ တြာယိၐျတေ၊
Many people will hate you [because you believe in me]. Nevertheless, [many people] will keep on believing in me until they die. They are the people whom [God] will take to live with him.
23 တဲ ရျဒါ ယူယမေကပုရေ တာဍိၐျဓွေ, တဒါ ယူယမနျပုရံ ပလာယဓွံ ယုၐ္မာနဟံ တထျံ ဝစ္မိ ယာဝန္မနုဇသုတော နဲတိ တာဝဒ် ဣသြာယေလ္ဒေၑီယသရွွနဂရဘြမဏံ သမာပယိတုံ န ၑက္ၐျထ၊
When people in one town cause you to suffer, escape to another town [and tell the people there about me]. Note this: [I], the one who came down from heaven, will certainly return [to earth] before you have finished going from one town to another town throughout Israel [and telling people about me].
24 ဂုရေား ၑိၐျော န မဟာန်, ပြဘောရ္ဒာသော န မဟာန်၊
A disciple should not [expect to be] greater than his teacher, and servants [are not] superior to their master.
25 ယဒိ ၑိၐျော နိဇဂုရော ရ္ဒာသၑ္စ သွပြဘေား သမာနော ဘဝတိ တရှိ တဒ် ယထေၐ္ဋံ၊ စေတ္တဲရ္ဂၖဟပတိရ္ဘူတရာဇ ဥစျတေ, တရှိ ပရိဝါရား ကိံ တထာ န ဝက္ၐျန္တေ?
You do not [expect that] people will [treat] a disciple better than [they treat] his teacher, or that [they will treat] a servant [better than they treat] his master. [Similarly, because I am your teacher and master, you can expect that people will mistreat you, because they have mistreated me]. The most you can expect is that people [will treat you like they treat me. I am like] the ruler of a household [MET]. But people [have insulted me by] calling [me] Beelzebub, [the ruler of the demons]. So they [will] certainly [insult you more, you who are only like] members of my household [MET]!”
26 ကိန္တု တေဘျော ယူယံ မာ ဗိဘီတ, ယတော ယန္န ပြကာၑိၐျတေ, တာဒၖက် ဆာဒိတံ ကိမပိ နာသ္တိ, ယစ္စ န ဝျဉ္စိၐျတေ, တာဒၖဂ် ဂုပ္တံ ကိမပိ နာသ္တိ၊
“Do not be afraid of [people who insult you and do evil things to you. God wants] everything that is unknown now to be revealed {[God wants you to] reveal everything [that is unknown now]}. [He does] not [want his truth] to remain hidden [MET] and kept secret [DOU].
27 ယဒဟံ ယုၐ္မာန် တမသိ ဝစ္မိ တဒ် ယုၐ္မာဘိရ္ဒီပ္တော် ကထျတာံ; ကရ္ဏာဘျာံ ယတ် ၑြူယတေ တဒ် ဂေဟောပရိ ပြစာရျျတာံ၊
[So, instead of being afraid], what I say to you [secretly as people do] at night [MTY], tell [publicly as people do] during the daytime [MTY]. What I [say to you privately as people do when they] whisper to you [MTY], proclaim publicly [MTY, DOU].
28 ယေ ကာယံ ဟန္တုံ ၑက္နုဝန္တိ နာတ္မာနံ, တေဘျော မာ ဘဲၐ္ဋ; ယး ကာယာတ္မာနော် နိရယေ နာၑယိတုံ, ၑက္နောတိ, တတော ဗိဘီတ၊ (Geenna g1067)
Do not be afraid of people who [are able to] kill your body [SYN] but are not able to destroy your soul. Instead, fear [God because] he is able to destroy both a [person’s] body and a [person’s] soul in hell. (Geenna g1067)
29 ဒွေါ် စဋကော် ကိမေကတာမြမုဒြယာ န ဝိကြီယေတေ? တထာပိ ယုၐ္မတ္တာတာနုမတိံ ဝိနာ တေၐာမေကောပိ ဘုဝိ န ပတတိ၊
[Think about the] sparrows. [They have so little value] that [you] can buy cares two of them for [only] one small coin [RHQ]. But when [any] sparrow falls to the ground [and dies] [LIT], [God], your [heavenly] Father, knows it, [because he cares about everything].
30 ယုၐ္မစ္ဆိရသာံ သရွွကစာ ဂဏိတာံး သန္တိ၊
[He cares about you, too]. He even knows how many hairs you have on your head!
31 အတော မာ ဗိဘီတ, ယူယံ ဗဟုစဋကေဘျော ဗဟုမူလျား၊
[God] values you much more than he values sparrows [LIT]. So, do not be afraid [of people who threaten to kill you]
32 ယော မနုဇသာက္ၐာန္မာမင်္ဂီကုရုတေ တမဟံ သွရ္ဂသ္ထတာတသာက္ၐာဒင်္ဂီကရိၐျေ၊
If people, [without being afraid, are willing to] tell others [that they are my disciples], I will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven [that they are my disciples].
33 ပၖထွျာမဟံ ၑာန္တိံ ဒါတုမာဂတဣတိ မာနုဘဝတ, ၑာန္တိံ ဒါတုံ န ကိန္တွသိံ၊
But if they are afraid to say in front of others that they are my [disciples], I will tell my Father, who is in heaven, [that] they are not [my disciples].”
34 ပိတၖမာတၖၑ္စၑြူဘိး သာကံ သုတသုတာဗဓူ ရွိရောဓယိတုဉ္စာဂတေသ္မိ၊
“Do not think that I came to earth to cause [people] to live together harmoniously. The result of my coming is that [some of those who follow me] [MTY] will be killed.
35 တတး သွသွပရိဝါရဧဝ နၖၑတြု ရ္ဘဝိတာ၊
Because I came [to earth, people who do not believe in me] will oppose [those who do believe in me. For example], some sons will oppose their fathers, some daughters will oppose their mothers, and some daughters-in-law will oppose their mothers-in-law.
36 ယး ပိတရိ မာတရိ ဝါ မတ္တောဓိကံ ပြီယတေ, သ န မဒရှး;
[This shows that sometimes] a person’s enemies will be members of his own household.
37 ယၑ္စ သုတေ သုတာယာံ ဝါ မတ္တောဓိကံ ပြီယတေ, သေပိ န မဒရှး၊
People who love their fathers or mothers more than [they love] me are not worthy to [have a relationship with me]. And people who love their sons or daughters more than [they love] me are not worthy [to belong to] me.
38 ယး သွကြုၑံ ဂၖဟ္လန် မတ္ပၑ္စာန္နဲတိ, သေပိ န မဒရှး၊
[People who are ready to execute a prisoner force him to] carry a cross [to the place where they will nail him to it] [MET]. Those who are not [willing to allow other people to hurt and disgrace them like that because of being my disciples] are not worthy to belong to me.
39 ယး သွပြာဏာနဝတိ, သ တာန် ဟာရယိၐျတေ, ယသ္တု မတ္ကၖတေ သွပြာဏာန် ဟာရယတိ, သ တာနဝတိ၊
People who [deny that they believe in me in order to escape being killed] will not live [with God eternally] [MET], but people who [confess that they believe in] me and, [as a result are] killed, will live [with God eternally] [MET].”
40 ယော ယုၐ္မာကမာတိထျံ ဝိဒဓာတိ, သ မမာတိထျံ ဝိဒဓာတိ, ယၑ္စ မမာတိထျံ ဝိဒဓာတိ, သ မတ္ပြေရကသျာတိထျံ ဝိဒဓာတိ၊
“[God considers that] everyone who welcomes you, welcomes me [SIM], and [he considers that] everyone who welcomes me welcomes [him], the one who sent me [SIM].
41 ယော ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒီတိ ဇ္ဉာတွာ တသျာတိထျံ ဝိဓတ္တေ, သ ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိနး ဖလံ လပ္သျတေ, ယၑ္စ ဓာရ္မ္မိက ဣတိ ဝိဒိတွာ တသျာတိထျံ ဝိဓတ္တေ သ ဓာရ္မ္မိကမာနဝသျ ဖလံ ပြာပ္သျတိ၊
Those who welcome [someone because] [MTY] [they know] that person is a prophet they will receive the [same] reward that prophets [receive from God. Likewise], those who welcome a person [because] [MTY] [they know] that person is righteous will receive the reward righteous people [receive from God].
42 ယၑ္စ ကၑ္စိတ် ဧတေၐာံ က္ၐုဒြနရာဏာမ် ယံ ကဉ္စနဲကံ ၑိၐျ ဣတိ ဝိဒိတွာ ကံသဲကံ ၑီတလသလိလံ တသ္မဲ ဒတ္တေ, ယုၐ္မာနဟံ တထျံ ဝဒါမိ, သ ကေနာပိ ပြကာရေဏ ဖလေန န ဝဉ္စိၐျတေ၊
[Note this: ] people [see that you are thirsty] [MTY] [and] give you a drink of cold water because they know that [MTY] you are one of my disciples. [God] will certainly reward people who do that. [They might consider that what they did] is insignificant, [but God will consider it very significant]” [LIT].
