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Matayo 22
Neno: Bibilia Takatifu
Matayo 22
Neno: Bibilia Takatifu
Mfano Wa Karamu Ya Harusi
22 Yesu akazungumza nao tena kwa kutumia mifano, akasema, 2 “Ufalme wa mbinguni unaweza kufananishwa na mfalme mmoja ali yemwandalia mwanae karamu ya harusi. 3 Akawatuma watumishi wake wakawaite wageni walioalikwa lakini wakakataa kuja. 4 Akawatuma watumishi wengine akisema, ‘Waambieni waalikwa kwamba karamu iko tayari, nimekwisha chinja fahali wangu na ng’ombe wanono kwa ajili yenu, karibuni karamuni.’ 5 Lakini waalikwa wakadharau, mmoja akaenda shambani kwake, mwingine akaenda kwenye miradi yake, 6 na wengine wakawakamata wale watumishi wakawatendea mambo ya aibu na kuwaua.
7 “Yule mfalme akakasirika, akapeleka jeshi lake likawaanga miza wale wauaji na kuteketeza mji wao. 8 Kisha akawaambia watum ishi wake, ‘Karamu ya harusi ni tayari, lakini wale niliowaalika hawakustahili kuja karamuni. 9 Kwa hiyo nendeni katika njia panda mkawaalike harusini wote mtakaowakuta.’ 10 Wale watumishi wakaenda mabarabarani wakawakusanya wote waliowakuta, wema na wabaya. Ukumbi wa sherehe ya harusi ukajaa wageni.
11 “Lakini mfalme alipoingia kutazama wageni, alimwona mle ndani mtu mmoja ambaye hakuwa amevaa vazi la harusi. 12 Mfalme akamwuliza, ‘Rafiki, umeingiaje humu bila vazi la harusi?’ Yule mtu hakuwa na la kusema. 13 Basi mfalme akawaambia watumishi wake, ‘Mfungeni mikono na miguu mkamtupe nje kwenye giza. Huko kutakuwa na kilio na kusaga meno.’ 14 Kwa maana walioitwa ni wengi lakini walioteuliwa ni wachache.”
Kuhusu Kulipa Kodi
15 Mafarisayo walifanya mbinu za kumtega Yesu katika mafundi sho yake. 16 Wakatuma wanafunzi wao pamoja na Maherode wakam wambie, “Mwalimu, tunajua kwamba wewe ni mtu wa haki na unafundisha njia za Mungu kwa uaminifu bila kumjali mtu, kwa maana cheo si kitu kwako. 17 Basi tuambie, wewe unaonaje? Ni halali, au si halali kulipa kodi kwa Kaisari?”
18 Yesu alifahamu hila yao kwa hiyo akawaambia, “Ninyi wanafiki, kwa nini mnajaribu kunitega? 19 Nionyesheni sarafu mnayolipia kodi.” Wakamletea sarafu. 20 Yesu akawauliza, “Picha hii na sahihi hii ni za nani?” 21 Wakamjibu, “Ni za Kaisari.” Basi Yesu akawaambia, “Mpeni Kaisari yaliyo ya Kais ari; na ya Mungu mpeni Mungu.”
22 Waliposikia haya wakashangaa; wakamwacha, wakaondoka.
Ufufuo Wa Wafu
23 Siku hiyo hiyo Masadukayo, wale wanaoamini kwamba wafu hawafufuki, walikuja kwa Yesu wakamwuliza, 24 “Mwalimu, Musa alitufundisha kwamba mtu akifariki pasipo kupata watoto, ndugu yake amwoe huyo mjane ili ampatie kaka yake watoto. 25 Hapa kwetu walikuwapo ndugu saba. Wa kwanza alioa mke, kisha akafariki na kwa kuwa hakuwa na watoto, yule mjane alichukuliwa na ndugu yake. 26 Ikatokea hivyo hivyo kwa yule ndugu wa pili hadi wote saba wakamwoa huyo mjane bila kupata watoto. 27 Baadaye, yule mjane naye akafariki. 28 Sasa tuambie, siku ile ya ufufuo, ata hesabiwa kuwa ni mke wa nani? Maana aliolewa na wote saba!”
29 Yesu akawajibu, “Mnakosea kwa sababu hamjui Maandiko wala uwezo wa Mungu. 30 Wakati wa ufufuo, watu hawataoa wala kuolewa; kwa maana watakuwa kama malaika wa mbinguni. 31 Na kuhusu ufufuo wa wafu, hamjasoma Mungu alivyowaambia kwamba, 32 ‘Mimi ni Mungu wa Ibrahimu, Mungu wa Isaka na Mungu wa Yakobo’? Yeye si Mungu wa wafu bali ni Mungu wa walio hai.”
33 Ule umati wa watu waliposikia hayo, walishangazwa sana na mafund isho yake.
Amri Kuu Kuliko Zote
34 Mafarisayo waliposikia kwamba Yesu alikuwa amewanyamazi sha Masadukayo, walikutana wakamjia pamoja. 35 Mmoja wao, mtaalamu wa sheria akajaribu kumtega kwa kumwuliza, 36 “Mwali mu, ni amri ipi iliyo kuu kuliko zote?”
37 Yesu akamjibu, “Mpende Bwana Mungu wako kwa moyo wako wote, na kwa roho yako yote na kwa akili zako zote.’ 38 Hii ndio amri kuu, tena ni ya kwanza. 39 Na ya pili inafanana nayo, nayo ni hii: ‘Mpende jirani yako kama nafsi yako.’ 40 Amri hizi mbili ndio msingi wa sheria zote na Maandiko ya manabii.”
Kristo Ni Mwana Na Bwana Wa Daudi
41 Mafarisayo walipokuwa pamoja Yesu aliwauliza, 42 “Mnaonaje kuhusu Kristo? Yeye ni mwana wa nani?” Wakamjibu, “Yeye ni mwana wa Daudi.”
43 Akawaambia, “Inakuwaje basi kwamba Daudi anapozungumza kwa Roho anamwita Kristo ‘Bwana,’ kwa kusema, 44 ‘Bwana alimwam bia Bwana wangu: keti upande wangu wa kulia mpaka nitakapowaweka adui zako chini ya miguu yako.’ 45 Kama Daudi anamwita ‘Bwana 46 Hakuna aliyeweza kumjibu Yesu hata neno moja. Na tangu siku hiyo hakuna aliyethubutu tena kum wuliza maswali.
Matthew 22
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Matthew 22
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The Parable of the Wedding Banquet(A)
22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like(B) a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants(C) to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4 “Then he sent some more servants(D) and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers(E) and burned their city.
8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners(F) and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good,(G) and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend(H)?’ The man was speechless.
13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’(I)
14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”(J)
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar(K)
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians.(L) “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a](M) to Caesar or not?”
18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s,(N) and to God what is God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.(O)
Marriage at the Resurrection(P)
23 That same day the Sadducees,(Q) who say there is no resurrection,(R) came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.(S) 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures(T) or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;(U) they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[b]?(V) He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.(W)
The Greatest Commandment(X)
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,(Y) the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law,(Z) tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c](AA) 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d](AB) 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”(AC)
Whose Son Is the Messiah?(AD)
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”
“The son of David,”(AE) they replied.
43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.”’[e](AF)
45 If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” 46 No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.(AG)
Footnotes
- Matthew 22:17 A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens
- Matthew 22:32 Exodus 3:6
- Matthew 22:37 Deut. 6:5
- Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18
- Matthew 22:44 Psalm 110:1
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