Base bemyisa kubaFarisi obekade eyimpumputhe. KwakuyiSabatha mhla uJesu enza udaka, evula amehlo ayo. AbaFarisi nabo bambuza futhi ukuthi kwenzeke kanjani ukuba abone. Wathi kubo: “Uninde amehlo ami ngodaka, ngageza, ngase ngiyabona.”
Ngakho-ke abanye kubaFarisi bathi: “Lo muntu akaveli kuNkulunkulu, ngokuba akawuhloniphi umthetho wesabatha.”
Abanye bathi: “Umuntu oyisoni angazenza kanjani izibonakaliso ezinje na?”
Kwaba khona ukwehlukana phakathi kwabo.
Ngalokho-ke baphinde bathi kobeyimpumputhe: “Wena uthini ngaye, njengoba evule amehlo akho na?”
Yathi: “Ungumphrofethi.”
Kepha abaJuda abakholwanga ukuthi ubeyimpumputhe nokuthi useyabona, baze babiza abazali balowo osebona. Bababuza bathi: “Ngabe lo uyindodana yenu enithi ngayo yazalwa ingaboni na? Pho kukanjani ukuba manje ibone na?”
Abazali bayo baphendula bathi: “Siyazi ukuthi lo muntu uyindodana yethu nokuthi wazalwa eyimpumputhe. Kepha ukuthi usebona kanjani manje nokuthi ngubani ovule amehlo akhe, asazi; buzani yena; usekhulile, uzakuziphendulela yena.”
Abazali bayo basho lokho, ngokuba babesaba abaJuda, lokhu abaJuda base bevumelene ngokuthi, uma kukhona ovuma ukuthi unguKhristu, uzakunqunywa esinagogeni. Ngakho-ke abazali bayo bathi: “Isikhulile, buzani yona.”
Bayibiza ngokwesibili le ndoda ebiyimpumputhe, bathi kuyo: “Mnike uNkulunkulu udumo; thina siyazi ukuthi lo muntu uyisoni.”
Khona indoda yaphendula, yathi: “Ukuthi uyisoni noma qha, angazi; kunye engikwaziyo, ukuthi bengiyimpumputhe, manje sengiyabona.”
Ngakho bathi kuyo: “Wenzeni kuwe na? Uwavule kanjani amehlo akho na?”
Yaphendula, yathi: “Senginitshelile, kodwa anilalelanga. Nifunelani ukuzwa futhi na? Ngabe nani senifuna ukuba ngabafundi bakhe na?”
Bamthuka, bathi: “Nguwe ongumfundi walowo muntu, kodwa thina singabafundi bakaMose. Siyazi ukuthi uNkulunkulu wakhuluma kuMose, kepha asimazi lo muntu ukuthi uvela kuphi.”
Indoda yaphendula, yathi kubo: “Lokhu kuyamangalisa ukuthi nina anazi ukuthi uvela kuphi, kepha uvule amehlo ami. Siyazi ukuthi uNkulunkulu akazilaleli izoni, kodwa uma umuntu emesaba uNkulunkulu, enza intando yakhe, uyamlalela lowo. Selokhu kwathi nhlo, akukaze kuzwakale ukuthi ukhona owake wavula amehlo omuntu ozelwe eyimpumputhe. Uma lo muntu ebengaveli kuNkulunkulu, ubengenakwenza lutho.”
Baphendula, bathi kuyo: “Wena wazalelwa esonweni ngokupheleleyo, wena usufundisa thina na?”
Base beyikhiphela ngaphandle kwesinagoge.
UJesu wezwa ukuthi bayikhiphele ngaphandle. Kuthe lapho eyifumana, wathi: “Uyakholwa yini yiNdodana yomuntu na?”
Yamphendula, yathi: “Ingubani, Nkosi, ukuze nami ngikholwe yiyo na?”
UJesu wathi kuyo: “Usuyibonile, yiyona le ekhuluma nawe.”
Yayisithi: “Nkosi, ngiyakholwa.”
Yakhuleka kuye.
UJesu wathi: “Mina ngize lapha emhlabeni ukuzokwahlulela ukuba abangaboniyo babone, kuthi nababonayo babe yizimpumputhe.”
Abanye babaFarisi ababekhona lapho bakuzwa lokho, base bethi kuye: “Pho nathi siyizimpumputhe yini na?”
UJesu wathi kubo: “Uma beniyizimpumputhe, ngabe aninasono. Kepha lokhu nithi: ‘Siyabona;’ isono senu sikinina.”
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