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19 Kenako Pilato anatenga Yesu nʼkumukwapula.+ 2 Ndipo asilikali analuka chisoti chachifumu chaminga nʼkumuveka kumutu. Anamuvekanso malaya akunja apepo.+ 3 Ndiye ankapita kwa iye nʼkumanena kuti: “Moni, inu Mfumu ya Ayuda!” Komanso ankamumenya makofi kumaso.+ 4 Pilato anatulukanso kunja nʼkuwauza kuti: “Onani! ndimutulutsa panja pano kwa inu, kuti mudziwe kuti sindinamupeze ndi mlandu.”+ 5 Choncho Yesu anatuluka panja atavala chisoti chachifumu chaminga chija ndi malaya akunja apepo. Ndiyeno Pilato anawauza kuti: “Taonani! Mwamuna uja ndi uyu!” 6 Koma pamene ansembe aakulu ndi alonda anamuona, anafuula kuti: “Apachikidwe ameneyo! Apachikidwe ameneyo!”*+ Pilato anawauza kuti: “Mutengeni mukamupachike nokha,* chifukwa ine sindinamupeze ndi mlandu uliwonse.”+ 7 Ayudawo anamuyankha kuti: “Tili ndi chilamulo ife, ndipo malinga ndi chilamulocho iyeyu akuyenera kufa+ chifukwa akudziyesa mwana wa Mulungu.”+

8 Pilato atamva zimene ananenazo, anachita mantha kwambiri, 9 ndiye analowanso mʼnyumba ya bwanamkubwa muja nʼkufunsa Yesu kuti: “Kodi umachokera kuti?” Koma Yesu sanamuyankhe.+ 10 Ndiyeno Pilato anamuuza kuti: “Kodi sukufuna kulankhula nane? Kodi sukudziwa kuti ndili ndi mphamvu zokumasula komanso zokupachika?”* 11 Yesu anamuyankha kuti: “Simukanakhala ndi mphamvu iliyonse pa ine mukanapanda kupatsidwa kuchokera kumwamba. Nʼchifukwa chake munthu amene wandipereka kwa inu ali ndi tchimo lalikulu kwambiri.”

12 Chifukwa cha zimenezi Pilato anayesetsabe kufunafuna njira yoti amumasulire. Koma Ayudawo anafuula kuti: “Mukamumasula munthu ameneyu, ndiye kuti si inu mnzake wa Kaisara. Munthu aliyense amene amadziyesa mfumu ndi wotsutsana ndi Kaisara.”+ 13 Ndiye Pilato atamva mawu amenewa, anatulutsa Yesu panja, ndipo iye anakhala pampando woweruzira milandu, pamalo amene ankatchulidwa kuti Bwalo Lamiyala, koma pa Chiheberi ankatchulidwa kuti Gabʹba·tha. 14 Tsiku limeneli linali Tsiku Lokonzekera+ Pasika ndipo nthawi inali cha mʼma 12 koloko masana.* Ndiyeno iye anauza Ayudawo kuti: “Taonani! Mfumu yanu imeneyi!” 15 Koma iwo anafuula kuti: “Muthane naye! Muthane naye! Apachikidwe ameneyo!”* Pilato anawafunsa kuti: “Kodi ndipachike mfumu yanu?” Ansembe aakulu anayankha kuti: “Tilibe mfumu ina koma Kaisara.” 16 Kenako anamupereka kwa iwo kuti akamuphe pomupachika pamtengo.+

Tsopano Yesu anali mʼmanja mwawo. 17 Iye ananyamula yekha mtengo wozunzikirapo* nʼkutuluka kupita kumalo amene ankatchulidwa kuti Chibade,+ koma pa Chiheberi ankatchulidwa kuti Gologota.+ 18 Kumeneko anamupachika pamtengo+ limodzi ndi amuna ena awiri, wina mbali iyi, wina mbali inayi, Yesu pakati.+ 19 Pilato analembanso dzina laudindo nʼkuliika pamtengo wozunzikirapowo.* Analemba kuti: “Yesu Mnazareti, Mfumu ya Ayuda.”+ 20 Ayuda ambiri anawerenga dzina laudindo limeneli, chifukwa malo amene Yesu anapachikidwawo anali pafupi ndi mzinda, ndipo analilemba mʼChiheberi, mʼChilatini ndi mʼChigiriki. 21 Koma ansembe aakulu a Ayudawo anauza Pilato kuti: “Musalembe kuti ‘Mfumu ya Ayuda,’ koma mulembe kuti iye ananena kuti, ‘Ndine Mfumu ya Ayuda.’” 22 Koma Pilato anawayankha kuti: “Zimene ndalemba, ndalemba.”

23 Asilikaliwo atamukhomerera Yesu pamtengo, anatenga malaya ake akunja nʼkuwagawa zigawo 4, kuti msilikali aliyense atenge chigawo chimodzi. Anatenganso malaya amkati. Koma malaya amkatiwo analibe msoko, anawombedwa kuchokera pamwamba mpaka pansi. 24 Choncho iwo anakambirana kuti: “Malayawa tisawangʼambe, koma tiyeni tichite maere kuti tidziwe amene angatenge malaya amenewa.”+ Zimenezi zinachitika kuti lemba likwaniritsidwe, limene limati: “Iwo anagawana zovala zanga, ndipo anachita maere pa zovala zanga.”+ Choncho asilikaliwo anachitadi zimenezi.

25 Koma chapafupi ndi mtengo wozunzikirapo* wa Yesu, panaima mayi ake+ ndi mchemwali wa mayi akewo, Mariya mkazi wa Kulopa, komanso Mariya wa ku Magadala.+ 26 Choncho Yesu ataona mayi akewo ndi wophunzira amene ankamukonda uja+ ataima chapafupi, anauza mayi akewo kuti: “Mayi, kuyambira lero, uyu akhala mwana wanu.” 27 Kenako anauza wophunzirayo kuti: “Kuyambira lero awa akhala mayi ako.” Kuyambira nthawi imeneyo wophunzirayo anatenga mayiwo nʼkupita nawo kunyumba kwake.

28 Pambuyo pake, Yesu atadziwa kuti tsopano zonse zachitika, kuti malemba akwaniritsidwe ananena kuti: “Ndikumva ludzu.”+ 29 Pamalopo panali mtsuko wodzaza vinyo wowawasa. Choncho anatenga siponji nʼkuiviika muvinyo wowawasayo ndipo anaisomeka kukamtengo ka hisope* nʼkuifikitsa pakamwa pake.+ 30 Atalandira vinyo wowawasayo, Yesu anati: “Ndakwaniritsa chifuniro chanu!”+ ndipo anaweramitsa mutu nʼkupereka mzimu wake.*+

31 Popeza linali Tsiku Lokonzekera,+ Ayudawo sanafune kuti mitembo ikhalebe pamitengo yozunzikirapo+ tsiku la Sabata, (chifukwa Sabata la tsiku limeneli linali lalikulu),+ ndiye iwo anapempha Pilato kuti awalole kuti athyole miyendo ya anthu amene anapachikidwawo nʼkutsitsa mitembo yawo. 32 Choncho asilikali anabwera nʼkuthyola miyendo ya munthu woyamba ndiponso ya wina uja amene anapachikidwa naye limodzi. 33 Koma atafika pa Yesu, anapeza kuti wafa kale ndiye sanamuthyole miyendo. 34 Koma mmodzi wa asilikaliwo anamubaya ndi mkondo munthiti+ ndipo nthawi yomweyo panatuluka magazi ndi madzi. 35 Munthu amene anaona zimenezo ndi amene wapereka umboni umenewu ndipo umboni wakewo ndi woona. Iye akudziwa kuti amanena zoona, kuti inunso mukhulupirire.+ 36 Kwenikweni zimenezi zinachitika kuti lemba likwaniritsidwe, limene limati: “Sadzathyola* fupa lake ndi limodzi lomwe.”+ 37 Ndiponso lemba lina limati: “Iwo adzayangʼana kwa munthu amene anamubaya.”+

38 Pambuyo pa zinthu zimenezi, Yosefe wa ku Arimateya, amene anali wophunzira wachinsinsi wa Yesu chifukwa ankaopa Ayuda,+ anapempha Pilato kuti akachotse mtembo wa Yesu ndipo Pilato anamupatsa chilolezo. Choncho anafika nʼkuchotsa mtembowo.+ 39 Nikodemo+ amene anabwera kwa iye usiku poyamba paja, anabweranso atatenga mule wosakaniza ndi aloye, wopitirira makilogalamu 32.*+ 40 Choncho iwo anatenga mtembo wa Yesu nʼkuukulunga ndi nsalu zamaliro zonunkhira,+ mogwirizana ndi mwambo umene Ayuda ankatsatira poika maliro. 41 Tsopano kumalo kumene anamupachikirako kunali munda mmene munali manda* atsopano,+ ndipo anali asanaikemo munthu chiyambire. 42 Popeza linali Tsiku Lokonzekera+ Chikondwerero cha Ayuda, ndipo mandawo anali pafupi, iwo anaika Yesu mmenemo.