Tabia Ya Martha

UJUMBE KATIKA TABIA YA MARTHA.

Mhubiri:  Mch. Jonathan Bucha

Yohana 12:1-11

[1]

Basi, siku sita kabla ya Pasaka, Yesu alifika Bethania, alipokuwapo Lazaro, yeye ambaye Yesu alimfufua katika wafu. 

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

[2]Basi wakamwandalia karamu huko; naye Martha akatumikia; na Lazaro alikuwa mmojawapo wa wale walioketi chakulani pamoja naye. 

There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

[3]Basi Mariamu akatwaa ratli ya marhamu ya nardo safi yenye thamani nyingi, akampaka Yesu miguu, akamfuta miguu kwa nywele zake. Nayo nyumba pia ikajaa harufu ya marhamu. 

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

[4]Basi Yuda Iskariote, mmojawapo wa wanafunzi wake, ambaye ndiye atakaye kumsaliti, akasema, 

Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,

[5]Mbona marhamu hii haikuuzwa kwa dinari mia tatu, wakapewa maskini? 

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

[6]Naye aliyasema hayo, si kwa kuwahurumia maskini; bali kwa kuwa ni mwivi, naye ndiye aliyeshika mfuko, akavichukua vilivyotiwa humo. 

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

[7]Basi Yesu alisema, Mwache aiweke kwa siku ya maziko yangu. 

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

[8]Kwa maana maskini mnao sikuzote pamoja nanyi; bali mimi hamnami sikuzote. 

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

[9]Basi watu wengi katika Wayahudi walipata kujua ya kuwa yeye yuko huko, nao wakaja, si kwa ajili yake Yesu tu, ila wamwone na Lazaro, ambaye Yesu alimfufua katika wafu. 

Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

[10]Nao wakuu wa makuhani wakafanya shauri la kumwua Lazaro naye; 

But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

[11]maana kwa ajili yake wengi katika Wayahudi walijitenga, wakamwamini Yesu. 

Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.