Anembele Mateo
3 Mu oa moba, Yoano+ Mubatizhi waishile saka asapwila+ mungye mu Yudea, 2 ne kwamba’mba: “Lapilai, mambo Bufumu bwa mwiulu bwafwenya pepi.”+ 3 Uno ye yewa ye baambilepo kwi ngauzhi Isaya+ amba: “Kuji ubena kubijika mungye amba: ‘Nengezhezhai jimo jishinda ja Yehoba!* Ololai mashinda anji.’”+ 4 Yoano wavwalanga kivwalo kya boya bwa ngamela ne mushipi wa kiseba mu lubunda wanji.+ Kabiji wajanga nzhiye ne buki.+ 5 Kepo bantu ba mu Yelusalema ne bonse ba mu Yudea ne mu mapunzha onse ajinga pepi na Yodano baishilenga kwi aye,+ 6 kabiji wibabatizhenga* mu Mukola wa Yodano+ saka basolola mambo abo patoka.
7 Byo amwene Bafaliseo ne Basadusea+ bavula saka beya ko abatizhenga, wibambijile’mba: “Anweba baana ba bipiji,+ ñanyi wimujimunako amba munyeme bukaji bubena kwiya?+ 8 Onkao mambo, mweshainga bipangwa bimwesha kulapila. 9 Kange mulangulukenga mu michima yenu amba, ‘Tuji na shetu Abalahama’ ne.+ Amiwa nemwambila namba, Lesa wakonsha kwalula ano mabwe kwikala baana ba kwa Abalahama. 10 Kapasa bekatula kala ku mizhazhi ya bichi. Kichi kyonse kibula kupanga bipangwa byawama, bakekitema ne kwikitaya mu mujilo.+ 11 Amiwa nemubatizha mu mema na mambo a kuba mwalapila,+ pakuba awa ubena kundondela wankila bulume, kabiji kechi nakonsha kumuvuula makwabilo anji ne.+ Aye ukemubatizha anweba na mupashi+ wazhila ne na mujilo.+ 12 Fosholo wanji wa kululwilako uji mu kuboko kwanji, kabiji ukatokesha bulongo kipujilo kyanji ne kulonga wichi mu butala, pakuba makunzhi ukeasoka mu mujilo+ ye bakonsha kubula kuzhimya.”
13 Kabiji Yesu wafumine ku Ngalilea kwiya ku Yodano kwi Yoano, pa kuba’mba bamubatizhe kwi aye.+ 14 Pakuba Yoano wamukanyijile’mba: “Anweba yenu mwafwainwa kumbatizha, nanchi mwaiya kwi amiwa amba nemubatizhe nyi?” 15 Yesu wamukumbwile’mba: “Leka kikale byonka bino, mambo kitufwainwa kufikizha akya kyakeba Lesa.” Kepo alekele kumukanya. 16 Yesu byo abatizhiwe, ponkapo watuntukile mu mema; ne jiulu jashinkukile,+ kabiji Yoano wamwene mupashi wa Lesa saka ekila pe aye nobe nkunda.+ 17 Ponkapo ne jiwi jafumine mwiulu+ amba: “Uno ye Mwanami+ ye natemwa, mo mmwena lusekelo.”+