Luke 20
1 Lumbu kimosi Yesu bu kaba longa batu mu nzo Nzambi, wuba kuba samunina Nsamu Wumbote; zimbukila bapfumu banganga Nzambi, minlongi mi mina ayi bakulutu ba batu bayiza,
On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.
2 banyuvula: —Wutukamba mu lulendo mbi wulembu vangila mambu momo? Voti nani wuvana lulendo beni e?
They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”
3 Yesu mamvandi wuba kamba: —Minu mamvama kiuvu kimosi kidi yama mu kuluyuvula.
He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:
4 Bika lukhamba: mbotokolo yi Yowani, ku diyilu yiba voti kuidi batu e?
the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”
5 Buna beka lembu kayindulanga mu bawu veka. Buna baniunguta: enati tutubidi ti: “Ku diyilu” buna maka tuyuvula “vayi bila mbi lusia kunwilukila ko e?”
They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’
6 Vayi enati tutubidi ti “kuidi batu” buna batu boso maba tuvondila mu matadi bila batu boso bazebi ti Yowani wuba mbikudi.
But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”
7 Buna bavutula ti basi zaba ko kuevi kaba.
They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.
8 Buna Yesu wuba vutudila: —Minu mamvama, ndilendi kulukamba ko kani mu lulendo lu nani ndilembu vangila mambu mama.
Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
9 Bosi wukamba batu nongi yayi: —Mutu wumosi wukuna ndima yi vinu; wuyekudila yawu minkuni muingi mimvananga ndambu yi mimbutu mu kadika mvu ayi wuyenda mu nzietolo mu mimvu miwombo.
He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
10 Mu thangu yimvelungu makundi ma vinu, wutuma kisadi kiandikimosi kuidi minkuni bi ndima muingi mimvana ndambu yi mimbutu mi vinu vayi minkuni mi ndima mintuta khuba ayi mimvutula mioko yi mioko.
At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty.
11 Wubuela fidisa diaka kisadi kinkaka. Mamvandi wututu khuba, wufingu ayi mimvutula mioko yi mioko.
He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
12 Pfumu yi ndima wubuela fidisa diaka kisadi kintatu vayi minkuni mi ndima minlueka ayi minloza ku nganda yi ndima.
He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him and threw him out.
13 Buna pfumu yi ndima wutuba: A mbi ndieka vanga e? Ndieka fidisamuanꞌama wu luzolo; mananga bela kummona lukinzu bu bela kummona.
The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’
14 Vayi minkuni mi ndima bu mimmona, mitubana bawu na bawu: “Tala mutu wela vinginina ndima, bika tumvonda muingi ndima beniyikituka yeto veka!”
“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
15 Buna minkoka ku nganda yi ndima ayi mimvonda! Buna pfumu yi ndima mbi kela vangila minkuni mi ndima e?
Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
16 Buna wela kuiz, wela vondisa minkuni mi ndima ayi wela yekudila ndima beni kuidi minkuni minkaka. Batu bobo bawa, bamvutudila: —Bulendi baka bu bela ko.
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
17 Vayi niandi wuba tala ayi wuba kamba: —Buna masonuku mama mbi mansundula: Ditadi diloza mintungi dikituka ditadi di mfunu diodi didi va fuma ki nzo
But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone’?
18 woso wela bua va yilu ditadi beni wela keluka tsingu ayi woso mutu ditadi beni diela builu wela kosakana.
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”
19 Bapfumu zi zinganga Nzambi ayi minlongi mi mina batomba mu thangu yina kaka, mu kunkanga vayi bamona batu tsisi bila basudika kuawu ti bawukavekula bu katuba nongo yoyi.
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
20 Buna batona kumfiela; diawu bamfidisila batu mu diambu bamfiela. Batu beni baba kukimonikisanga batu basonga mu diambu bambuidila mu moso kuandi mambu kakuiza tubi muingi banyekula mu mioko mi zuzi ayi mu luyalu lu nyadi.
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
21 Buna batubeni banyuvula: —A Nlongi, tuzebi ti ngeyo weta tubila mu busonga ayi weta longila mu busonga. Ngeyo wutalanga bizizi bi batu ko vayi weta longila mu bukiedika nzila yi Nzambi.
They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
22 A buevi, minsua midi yetu mu futa phaku kuidi Sezali voti tuisi ko minsua e?
Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
23 Bu kabakula mayuya mawu, buna wuba kamba:
But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?
24 —Mbonisanu sengo kimosi ki denali! Mfikula yayi yi nani ayi bisono biabi binani e? Bamvutudila ti bi Sezali.
Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They answered, “Caesar’s.”
25 Buna wuba kamba ti: —Bika luvana bi Sezali kuidi Sezali bosi bi Nzambi kuidi Nzambi.
He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
26 Basia nunga ko kumbuidila mu mambu makatuba va meso ma batu. Basimina bu bawa mvutu andi ayi basia baka diaka diambu di tuba ko.
They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.
27 Ndambu Basaduki, batu bobo kaba kikininanga ko ti batu beti fuluka, bafikama ayi banyuvula kiuvu:
Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
28 —A nlongi, Moyize wutusonikina ti: enati mutu fuidi vayi kasia bika muana ko, buna khombꞌandi yi bakala kafueti vinginina nketo wowo kabikidi muingi kabutila khombꞌandi bana.
They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother.
29 Vayi vaba tsambudidi bakhomba zi babakala. Wutheti wukuela, wufuamu kambu bika muana,
There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.
30 wummuadi, ayi wowo wuntatu bankuela. Buawu bobo buvangimina mu bawu boso,
The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
31 bawu tsambudi bafua mu kambu bika bana.
The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.
32 Ku nzimunina bawu boso nketo beni mamvandi wufua.
Afterward the woman also died.
33 Mu thangu yi mfulukulu, wela ba nketo wu nani bila wuba nketo wu tsambudi di bakhomba ziozo e?
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”
Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage. (aiōn g165)
35 vayi bobo bela monika ti bafueni mu tula mu thangu yinkuiza ayi mu fuluka mu bafua balendi buela kuela ko ayi balendi buela kuedusu ko. (aiōn g165)
But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. (aiōn g165)
36 Bila balendi buela fua ko bila beka banga zimbasi ayi beka banaba Nzambi, bana ba mfulukulu.
For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
37 Moyize wutelama kimbangi ti bafua bela fuluka mu nzila yi finti fiba lema. Bila kuna katedila Pfumu ti: Nzambi yi Abalahami, Nzambi yi Izaki, Nzambi yi Yakobi.
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
38 Vayi niandi kasi Nzambi yi bafua ko vayi Nzambi yi batu banzinga. Bila kuidi niandi, bawu boso balembu zingi.
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
39 Buna ndambu minlongi mi mina mitaba: —A nlongi, vutudi bumbote.
Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.”
40 Basia buela kunyuvula kadi diambu dimosi ko.
They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.
41 Buna Yesu wuba yuvula: —A buevi beta tubila ti Klisto widi muana wu Davidi e?
He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?
42 Bila niandi veka Davidi wutuba mu minkunga: Pfumu wukamba kuidi Pfumu ama: Vuanda va koko kuama ku lubakala
David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
43 nate ndimanisa tula bambeni ziaku banga tetuku kiaku ki malu maku.
until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’
44 Davidi wunkuntedila Pfumu, buna buevi kalenda buela bela muanꞌandi e?
“David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”
45 Sumbu batu boso bawa, buna wukamba minlonguki miandi:
In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
46 —Lulubukila minlongi mi mina mimmonanga khini mu diatilanga mu mazuela ma mula ayi minzolanga baba vaninanga zimbote mu mazandu, minzolanga vuandanga mu bibuangu binzitusu mu zinzo zi zikhutukunu ayi mu minyengo.
“Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
47 Minlongi beni mi mina minyibanga mu zinzo zi mafuola ayi mieta vunikisa sambila zitsambulu zi mula. Bawu bela baka thumbudulu yi lutidi ngolo.
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
