20:19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
20:20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
20:21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
20:24 But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
20:25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
20:26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
20:27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe
20:28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
20:29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”
20:30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book
20:31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
20:1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
20:2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
20:3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.
20:4 The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
20:5 He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.
20:6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there,
20:7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
20:8 Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
20:9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
20:10 Then the disciples returned to their homes. 20:11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 20:12 and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.
20:13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”
20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher).
20:17 Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
20:18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
In Nkwen
Àbòŋnǝ̀ YesuKristò ma Dzonǝ̀ Ŋwà’anǝ̀ â ŋwa’arǝ, 20:1-18
All: Mәkwu’utәnә̀ dzwi a mbwowwò, o Nfòwìi.
 tǝ̀tu’u mba’ambà’à nǝ nchyàmbì njwe mâ ǝ̀di’i kǝ brǝ nsenǝ, Màriya Màgdàlenà â yii ntsù nǝshyǝ̀ nti’i nzǝ ngǝ bǝ tɛ̌ nlò’òsǝ ngò’ò zha ntsù nǝshyǝ̀̀. A ti’i nkhǝ nghǝ̀ nswiŋǝ â mbwo Bità nǝ̀ ngaŋǝ-kù Yesù dzwu ma â koŋǝ ngǝ, “Bǝ fusǝ ətàa mǝmǝ nǝ̀shyǝ̀ bìi kàkǝ adi’i zu ma bǝ liŋǝ yi wu zhi. Bità bwo ŋù-kù Yesù wutsǝ̀ ti’ì nfuu nghǝ nduŋǝ ntsǔ nǝshyǝ̀. Bwo bǝ bya khǝ nghǝ, la wùtsǝ̀ wwa khǝ nchya Bità nti’i nghǝ nchyambì nkù’u atyǝ̂ nǝshyǝ̀.
 zǝ̀ŋsǝ̀ yi nlii mǝmǝ̀ nǝ̀shyǝ nzǝ atsǝ̀’ǝ̀ zu ma bǝ̂ kwerǝ Yesù nǝ zu mâ ǝ̂ noŋǝ, la kàkǝ yi mǝmǝ̀ nǝ̀shyǝ̀ kû. Shimunǝ Bità zoŋǝ ndzǝ̀mǝ̀ zhǝ nyii nkȗ mǝmǝ nǝ̀shyǝ̀ nzǝ atsǝ̀’ǝ̀ zu ma ǝ̂ noŋǝ nǝ zu ma bǝ̂ kwǝrǝ àtyǝ̂ zhi wu mâ ǝ bikàkǝ nǝ zǝ̀tsǝ zha dzwi la ̂nkarǝkǝ nòŋǝ tsɛ̀’ɛ̀ zuzu. Ŋù-kù wu ma â kwe mbì nyii la ti’i nkǝ nku mǝmǝ̀ nǝ̀shǝ̀ nzǝ nti’i mbiŋǝ; la atyǝˆ zha brǝ tǝ̀ làa ngǝ Àŋwà’àrǝ Ŋwà’ànǝ̀ swiŋǝ ngǝ a dzwi mǝ̀ bǝ̀ŋnǝnǝ̀ nǝwwo.Ngaŋǝ̀-kù Yesu ti’i mbu nkwi wwa ndya bwo.
Màriyà tiŋǝ ntsù nǝshyǝ̀ nkǐ. Nti’i nzǝ̀ŋsǝ̀ yi nlentǝ mǝmǝ̀ nǝ̀shyǝ̀. nzǝ bǝ andzɛ̀rǝ̀ bǝ bya ma bwȏ wìi ǝ̀tsǝ̀’ǝ̀ dzwa fǝ̀bǝ̀nǝ̀ nunǝ adi’i wu ma bǝ̂ noŋsǝ àkwu Yesù wu la, wî mò’o ala wu ma àtyǝ zhi noŋǝ wu nǝ wùtsǝ̀ alâ mǝkǔ zhǝ. Bwo biŋsǝ yi ngǝ, “O kî kǝ mma?” A swiŋǝ a mbwo bwo ngǝ, “Bǝ̂ lòo nfò wwà nghǝ nǝ zhǝ mǝ̀ kàkǝ adi’i zu ma bǝ liŋǝ yi wu zhi.“Ma â swiŋǝ li la nti’i nkâsǝ̀ yi nzǝ Yesù ma â tiŋǝ nǝbenǝ zhǝ la a kakǝ yi zhi. Yesù biŋsǝ̀ yi ngǝ, “Mma, o kî kǝ? O swà’a wǝ?” Mariya wi’itǝ̀ ngǝ a bǝ ngaŋǝ nsùŋǝ wwa, nti’i nswiŋǝ ngǝ, “Ətàa, boŋǝ â bǝ ngǝ ò lòo nghǝ nǝ zhǝ ò fi’ìtǝ̀ àdì’i zu ma ò liŋǝ wu mǝ nloo nghǝ nǝ zhǝ.” Yesù toŋtǝ̀ yi ngǝ, “Mâriyà!” A kâsǝ̀ yi nswiŋǝ nǝ abòŋnǝ ala’à zha ngǝ, “Rabonì” (ma a bǝ ngǝ Ndǝ̀) Yesù swiŋǝ nǝ̀ zhǝ ngǝ, “Kǝ wa nǝ gàŋǝ̀ mbǝ’ǝma mǝ̀ brǝ tǝ ko’o ghǝ̀ a mbwo Ətàa wà ma à kǝ̌ mbǝ ǝtàa wu, a mbwo Nywè wà ma à kǝ̌ mbǝ Nywe wwǔ.’” Màriya Magdalenà ti’i nghǝ lensǝ anyù zi a mbwo ngaŋǝ-kù Yesù ngǝ, “Mǝ̀ nzǝ Nfò winǝ̀”; nti’i nswiŋǝ mǝnyù mǝ̀tsǝ̀mǝ̀ muma â swiŋǝ nǝ̀ zhǝ.
13:1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
13:2 The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper
13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,
13:4 got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself.
13:5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. 13:6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
13:7 Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
13:8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.”
13:9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”
13:10 Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” 13:11 For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
13:12 After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
13:13 You call me Teacher and Lord–and you are right, for that is what I am.
13:14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
13:15 For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
13:16 Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them.
13:17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
13:31b When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
13:32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.
13:33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
13:34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples
2 and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.
3 If anyone should say to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ reply, ‘The Master has need of it and will send it back here at once.’”
4 So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it.
5 Some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”
6 They answered them just as Jesus had told them to, and they permitted them to do it.
7 So they brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks over it. And he sat on it.
8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.
9 Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out: “Hosanna!
10 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come! Hosanna in the highest!”
12:20 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks.
12:21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
12:22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
12:23 Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
12:24 Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
12:25 Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
12:26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.
12:27 “Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say – ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.
12:28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
12:29 The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
12:30 Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.
12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
12:32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
12:33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.
Born on the 2nd of January 1873 at Alencon in France, she was baptized two days after, on the 4th of January same year. When she was growing up, she thought she would be a nun. She received her First Holy Communion on the 8th of May 1884 and was confirmed on the 14th of June the same year. On the 9th of April 1888, she entered the Carmelite Monastery at Lisieux as a Postulant, at the permission of her Father. She practiced the virtues of humility, evangelical simplicity, and firm confidence in God. She is my Patron Saint, Therese of the Child Jesus, also known as Saint Therese of Lisieux and The Holy Face.
The Holy FaceSaint Therese of Lisieux.
HER INTERIOR SCHOOL
Therese of the Child Jesus is well known throughout the Church’s history as a doctor of souls. I once visited her school of holiness when I read her autobiography and decided to be a student in her school. This gentle soul in her interior school of holiness is awesome and can be very instrumental in the life of any Christian who turns to her intercession. I love reading her story again and again. Her prayer life as a whole, her schedule, and simple constant communion with God must have been the classroom where all teaching, learning, and research work took place for her to come out with her mission. Of course, her teacher being the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Mother her model.
HER MISSION
Therese of the Child Jesus
I’m always touched when I think of the kind of deep love Saint Therese had for God so much that in her last moment here on earth she declared her mission saying,
“I feel that I am about to enter my rest … but I also feel that my mission is going to begin. My mission to make God loved as I love him, to give my little ways to souls. If God grants my desire, my heaven will be lived on earth, until the end of time. This is not impossible since from the very heart of the beatific vision, the angels watch over us”.
My mission is love P.9.
She developed a lot of confidence in God as I see in most of her writings, like this very heartfelt one,
“O my God, Blessed Trinity I declare to love you and make you loved.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
I can see that she had a passionate desire to make God loved as she loves him or as they loved each other, a precious skill she must have acquired only in her interior school. Her self discipline and openness in little things fostered a more significant encounter between God and herself that she intended to serve God even hereafter. I also learned that Therese’s mission actually started after her death, her mission to spend heaven on earth, if God grants her desires, to make God loved. She is one of the most loved saints nowadays because she keeps on fulfilling her mission: Making God’s children love him through her intercession – making Love loved. This Aspect of hers truly amazes me.
HER PRAYER LIFE
I’ve always thought prayer is “talking and listening to God” until I discovered more about prayer when I reflected on what my patroness wrote as a definition for prayer from her experience of prayer.
“A glance directed towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trials and joys.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
In her last conversation with her spiritual mother, Therese recounted a moment she encountered God’s glory. She said,
“…well I was beginning the way of the cross and all of a sudden, I was seized with such a violent love for God that I cannot explain it except by saying that it was as if I had been totally plunged into fire. Oh! What fire and what sweetness at one and the same time! I was burning with love and I felt that one moment, one second longer, and I could not have supported its ardor without dying. I understood what the saint said about this state that they had experienced so often. I experienced it only for an instant, and then I fell back into my usual state of dryness.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
Therese’s attitude in prayer was that of abandonment. Even when it was difficult for her to meditate or reflect due to her health, her simplicity, peace of mind, and honesty in little things saw her being carried along by God’s love as a child carried in her Father’s arms. She longed to do great things, but her health could not permit her. In prayers, She was in-between being predominantly active and passive; thus, with no strength of her own, she left her heart predominantly open for the love of God to manifest itself to the fullest. How did she do this? By doing little things in extraordinary ways. We can learn from Therese that we can’t depend on our power to do things or to pray but on the grace of God’s love.
Another amazing thing in her was her way of praying. Therese never cherished vocal prayers or could not stand a wearisome reiteration of words, but she prefers to silence all her personal circuits to give deep attention in listening to God. She realized that it is when she was in silence that God speaks to her, a very important aspect of her interior school. She wanted to be real as much as possible not to be drawn into ready-made prayers, but however, she said she loved the Divine office.
I also learned that Therese usually recites the ‘Our Father‘ prayer very slowly during her moments of spiritual dryness as she said,
“Sometimes when my mind is in such dryness, that it is impossible for me to draw one thought to unite myself with God I recite very slowly an ‘our Father’ then the angelic situation, this prayer carry me away, they nourish my soul so much more than if I had recited them quickly one hundred times.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
This simply means she took her time to get all the meaning and sweetness of every word, phrase, and sentence of the prayer. And this exercise usually carries her out of dryness into a soul-nourishing experience. Amazing!
Her relationship with the virgin Mother was so real that she said,
“The Blessed Virgin shows me that she is not displeased with me and never fails to protect me as soon as I invoke her. I turn towards her and she always takes care of my needs as a tenderness of a mother.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
This shows that in her interior school, Therese never despised the Virgin Mother she learned from her and obtained her benefits. She confirms she took care of her needs, which means her prayers through the Virgin Mother were always answered.
HER EARLY CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE
Her radical faith and trust in God must have emanated from her early childhood experience of separation from her family. At the age of 3 years, due to ill health Therese was separated from her family and was only reunited after eleven months. This experience made her clung to her mother with a lot of passion. She could not endure being outside her mother’s presence. After her mother’s death, she clung to her family with the same zeal as she said,
“I could not bear the company of strangers and found my joy only within the intimacy of the Family.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
It is fantastic too that as Therese entered the convent, she clung to God in the same way she clung to her family. This childhood experience was just a glimpse of the interior school she came to establish as a nun, a preparation of what will come to pass in her life as a nun. Her unshakable or radical faith and dependence on God has gotten a significant contribution from her childhood experience.
HER ILL HEALTH
In sickness, Therese knew she had no strength to support herself but believed God would support her soul without her support. She believed she leans on a rock that holds her life and that she holds not the rock, but the rock holds her. This attitude of hers actually astonishes me.
In her interior institution, while learning a lot from God, the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Mother Mary, Saint Therese in some of her poems taught us many lessons such as abandonment, love, and self-sacrifice, fortitude, tenderness, purity, etc. To understand and imitate her life is to make us men, women, brothers, and sisters of faith. Just as she taught her novices with her words and examples, so she is teaching us today. Here are two of her amazing poems:
A GLOSS ON THE DIVINE
“Without support, yet with support.
Living without light, in darkness,
I am wholly being consumed by love.
I have no other support than my God.
And now I proclaim what I value near him.
Is to see and feel my soul
Supported without any support.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
When I read this poem the first time, I was like startled, and then I asked myself, “what is the meaning of ‘gloss’?” From my dictionary and got it,
gloss
/ɡläs/
noun
1.shine or luster on a smooth surface.
I was so moved as this definition made me understand the poem better. Amazingly, I see how this gentle soul describes her smooth leaning on God, her self abandonment in God’s hands, especially in moments when her heart was willing, but her body could not take her to where she wishes to reach in her calling due to her ill health.
LIVING ON LOVE
“Living on love is giving without limit.
Without claiming any value here below.
Ah! I give without counting, truly sure.
That when one loves one does not keep counts!
Overflowing with tenderness, I have given everything.
To his divine heart… lightly I run.
I have nothing left but my only wealth
Living on love.
Living on love is banishing every fear.
Every memory of past faults.
I see no imprint of my sins.
In a moment love has burnt out everything.”
Therese of the Child Jesus
Wow! what a love song. If there is a word in the whole wide world so difficult to define, it is “LOVE,” but here is a very simple, very true definition of love from a pure heart. Amazing! “Giving without limit, without counting, overflowing with tenderness, banishing fear, etc.”
CANONIZATION OF SAINT THERESE
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus
“After her death on the 30th of September 1897, at the age of 24, Saint Therese was declared venerable by Pope Benedict XV in 1921. In 1923 Pope Pius XI promulgated a decree which beatified Therese, describing her as the “Star of his Pontifical reign.” Finally, on the 17th of May 1925, Therese Martin, also known as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was canonized at St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of thirty-four cardinals, more than two hundred Arch Bishops and Bishops, innumerable priests religious and others. The Basilica was decorated with garlands of roses. She was also proclaimed a doctor of the Church.”
In fact, I’m impressed at the number of people present at her canonization, which indicates how Therese had touched the lives of many with her simple ways. This inevitably came to pass as a result of her dedication to her interior school, where she listened, communicated, and acted according to God’s will for her. She is said to be one of the most loved saints of this century because she keeps on fulfilling her mission. She is the woman most loved by the world after the mother of God. A doctor has done a lot of research, passed several exams, and is an expert in his work field. So was Saint Therese in her vocation. She did little things in extraordinary ways showing us that it is not only in doing great and mighty things that one deserves this title. Yes, she died but still lives and has visited so many countries of the world, something she wished she could do while on earth but limited by health.
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus
Her Intercessory Power
I was so astonished when I read about her intercessory power and decided to seek her intercession one time I had a difficulty. I prayed the “Glory Be Novena to Saint Therese.”
I was standing in front of the whole school that morning, conducting morning devotion. The latecomers had been stopped from running in except the kindergartens who were allowed to join their mates on their line. Suddenly, up came one of the latecomers, my class kids, Tumi, running directly towards me with a flower in hand. He must have harvested it on his way to school, for he lives on a hillside two kilometers from the school compost. The other pupils watched with amazement, eager to see what Tumi will be up to. Innocently, he offered me the flower saying, “Madam, take your ‘fiawer’. ” The whole school burst into laughter. 😁😁😁 Tumi was so happy😀as I received the flower, carried him up, and embraced him. No one could understand what this was all about, but I who have read that Saint Therese usually indicates answered prayers with flower signs. This happens the first time I took the novena. I thought it was a coincidence, but my second experience made me actually believe.
I was kneeling in front of the Blessed Sacrament on the 9th day of my Novena to Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, and as I was meditating, my eyes caught the bouquet of flowers that was standing at the altar. Just of a sudden, a rose left the bouquet and fell on the floor. This again to me was a confirmation of answered prayers through Saint Therese, and this made me believe that what is said of her is true that when you seek her intercession, she mostly shows signs of answered prayers with flowers. No doubt, she is also popularly known as “The Little Flower of Jesus,” or only “The Little Flower.“
Truly my patroness amazes me, and I’m proud to be a student in her school. She is one of the greatest saints of modern times.
Jesus said to Nicodemus: 14 “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up
15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
18 Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
19 And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil.
20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed.
21 But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
Àbòŋnǝ̀ Yesu Kristò ma Dzonə̀ Ŋwà’anǝ̀ â ŋwa’arǝ, 3:14-21
All: Mәkwu’utәnә̀ dzwi a mbwo wwò, o Nfò wìi.
Yesù â swiŋǝ a mbwo Nikodemusǝ̀ ngǝ, “Bǝ̌ be lya kǝ ku’usǝ Moo Ŋù gaŋǝ ndǝŋǝ tsuŋǝ̀ ma Mose ku’usǝ fǝ̀nye fya adi’i waŋsǝ-nshye la, ngǝ ŋu ntsǝ̀mǝ̀ wu ma à biŋǝ mbwo zhə â dzwi nǝ mèdzwinǝ̀ ma mǝ lyǝ kǝ mye. mbǝ’ǝma Nywe koŋǝ nshye zi susu, titi nchyasǝ Moo yi wi mo’o ngǝ ŋù ntsǝ̀mǝ̀ wu ma à biŋǝ a mbwo zhǝ bǝ̌ kàkǝ yi kwo la dzwi nǝ mǝ̀dzwinǝ̀ ma mǝ lye kǝ mye. Mbǝ’ǝma ŋù ntsǝ̀mǝ̀ wu ma a ghǝ̀rǝ mǝnyù mǝ tǝbòŋǝ̀ a banǝ̀ nkà’à, kàkǝ yi nǝbenǝ nka’a nyǐtǝ̂, mǝ ngǝ̌ mǝ̀nyù myi kǝ nǝ kɛ̌nǝ.Mbǝ’ǝma Nywe bikàkǝ̌ Moo yi chyasǝ̀ bǝ ngǝ a yii mbusǝ nshye, la bǝ ngǝ nshye fu mǝmǝ̀ ngǝ’ǝ mbǝ’ǝ yɛ.
Bǝ̂ bǝ kàkǝ ŋu wu ma à biŋǝ mbwo zhǝ chǝ̌ lo’o, la ŋù wu ma à bikàkǝ mbwo zhǝ biŋǝ bǝ tɛ nlo’o yɛ, mbǝ’ǝma à bikàkǝ mbwo Moo Nywe wi mò’o biŋǝ̀.Li ti’i mbǝ mǝtsɛ̀rǝnǝ mǝ nsa’à ngǝ, nkà’a yii mǝmǝ̀ nshyê la bǝ koŋǝ bǝ nsenǝdi’i nchyâtǝ nkà’a,mbǝ’ǝma mǝ̀fà’à mya bǝ mà tǝbòŋǝ̀.La ŋù wu ma mǝ̀dzwinǝ myi bǝ nko’onyù a yìi mǝmǝ̀ nkà’à, mǝ ngǝ bǝ zǝ mǝfà’à myi ndanǝ ma a fa’a nǝ Nywè.
13 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money changers seated there.
15 He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables,
16 and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”
17 His disciples recalled the words of Scripture
18 At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?”
19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”
21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
22 Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.
23 While he was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, many began to believe in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.
24 But Jesus would not trust himself to them because he knew them all,
25 and did not need anyone to testify about human nature. He himself understood it well.
Àbòŋnǝ̀ Yesu Kristò ma Dzonə̀ Ŋwà’anǝ̀ â ŋwa’arǝ, 2:13-25
All: Mәkwu’utәnә̀ dzwi a mbwo wwò, o Nfò wìi.
Ma njwe nghwe bǝ Dzusǝ̀ kǝ kù’u la, Yesù ko’o nghǝ fǝfǝ Yerǝsalemǝ̀. A zǝ bǝ̀ ma bwô nunǝ fyanǝ bǝ̀ dzàkashì nǝ mbyi nǝ̀ bǝ̀sǝŋǝ nkǝ nkwǝbǝrǝ nkabǝ nǝbenǝ ndyâ-nywè nghwe. A loo mǝ̀nkɛ̀rǝ̀ nghǝrǝ ngwànǝ̀ wu nti’i nsǝrǝ wwa nǝ zu, bwo bǝ̀ mbyi dzwu nǝ bǝ̀ dzàkashì, bwo lyǝtǝ ntsu ndyâ-nywe nghwe, nti’i nkǝ nkwirǝ nkabǝ̀ ngaŋǝ kwǝ̀bǝrǝ nkabǝ, nkâsǝ ǝ̀tǝ̌tǝ̀ jwa nkwusǝ nshyê, nti’i nwiŋǝ a mbwo ngaŋǝ fyanǝ bǝsǝŋǝ ngǝ, “Lo nə̀ nlyenǝ̀ nǝ bu fyî, nkə ndyâ Ətàa wa nǝ àdì’i mǝtanǝ bǝ ghǝ̀rǝ̂.” Ngaŋǝ ndzǝmǝ̀ jwi ti’i nwi’itǝ ma bǝ ŋwa’arǝ mǝmǝ̀ Aŋwà’àrǝ Ŋwà’ànǝ̀ ngǝ ə̀ləmt̀ə̀ ndyâ zhǝ bǝ zwɛrə wa. Əlya, bǝ Dzusə̀ ti’i mbiŋsǝ yi ngǝ, “Ə̀lensǝ̀ zu ma boŋǝ ò dǝ̌ nǝ̀ bìi mbǝ’ǝ anyu zi ma o ghǝ̀rǝ̀ li bǝ ǝ̀kǝ̀?” Yesù kwe nswiŋǝ nǝ bwo ngǝ, “Sà’àrǝnǝ̀ ndyâ-nywè nghwe zi mǝ̂ mbu nghwurǝ̀ nǝ njwe tarǝ. Bǝ Dzusə̀ swiŋǝ ngǝ, “Bǝ lô ǝ̀lùŋǝ̀ mǝ̀ghǝmǝ̀ nǝ̀kwà nǝ nchǝ̀ ntùu mǝ ghurǝnǝ̀ ndyâ-nywè nghwe zi, ò bǝ lo njwe tarǝ mǝ ghurǝ̀?” La ma Yesu kǝ bòŋnə̀ nlo a ǹnu zhi ma ndyâ-nywe nghwè.
A lyǝ nti’i mbǝ fǝ’ǝ̀ wu ma bǝ bǝŋsǝ yi nǝwwo la, ngaŋǝ ndzǝ̀mǝ̀ jwi ti’i nwi’itǝ ngǝ â bi ntɛ nswiŋǝ anyù zǐ. Bwo ti’i mbiŋǝ anyù zu ma Àŋwà’àrǝ̀ Ŋwà’ànǝ̀ swiŋǝ nǝ zu ma Yesu swiŋǝ. Ma bwo dzwi Yerǝsalemǝ̀ mǝ ǝjyǝ njwe nghwe la, bǝ̀ bâ nǝ̀nǝ̀ ti’i nzhitǝ mǝbiŋǝnǝ̀ nǝ ǝ̀lwenǝ̀ yɛ mbǝ’ǝma bwo zǝ ǝ̀khə̀’ə̀nǝ mǝ̀nyù mu ma â kǝ ghǝrǝ. La Yesù kâkǝ nnû zhì nu bwo ma’à mbǝ’ǝma â zhi wwa bǝtsǝ̀mǝ̀, kàkǝ ŋùdaŋǝ nswa’a ngǝ â biŋǝ nu mbǝ̀ zu ma ŋù dzwi mbǝ’ǝma zhǝ nǝ àtyembǝŋǝ zhi, zhi tsɛ’ɛ nshi’inǝ̌.