Kwakukhona ngaleso sikhathi abathile ababikela uJesu ngabaseGalile, abagazi labo uPilatu ayelixube nelemihlatshelo yabo. Waphendula wathi kubo: “Nicabanga ukuthi labo bantu baseGalile babeyizoni kunabo bonke yini abanye baseGalile, ngokuba behlelwa yilowo mshophi na? Ngithi kini: akunjalo, kodwa uma ningaphenduki, niyakubhubha nonke njengabo. Nalabo abali-18 okwawela kubo umbhoshongo eSilowama, wababulala, nisho ukuthi babeyizoni ukwedlula bonke abantu ababehlala eJerusalema na? Ngithi akunjalo: kodwa uma ningaphenduki niyakubhubha nonke njengabo.”
Wayesebalandisa lo mzekeliso wathi: “Umuntu othile wayetshale umkhiwane esivinini sakhe. Waya kuwo efuna isithelo sawo, kepha akafumananga lutho. Wayesethi kosebenza esivinini: ‘Phela sekuyiminyaka emithathu ngifika ngizofuna amakhiwane kulo mkhiwane, kodwa ngingatholi lutho. Ngakho-ke wunqume: kungani ulokhu ugugisa umhlabathi na?’
“Kepha waphendula, wathi: ‘Nkosi, ake uwuyeke nakulo nyaka, ngize ngimbe umhlabathi emaceleni awo, ngithele umquba; mhlawumbe ungase uthele ngonyaka ozayo, kodwa-ke uma kungenjalo, uyowunquma.’ ”
UJesu wayefundisa kwelinye lamasinagoge ngesabatha. Lapho kwakukhona owesifazane owayenomoya omubi usumgulise iminyaka eli-18; wayeseze waqhotha, engasakwazi ukuma aqonde. UJesu embona, wambiza, wathi kuye: “Mame, usuphilisiwe ekuguleni obunakho.”
Wabeka izandla phezu kwakhe, wayeselulama khona manjalo, wamdumisa uNkulunkulu.
Umphathi wesinagoge wacasuka ngokuba uJesu esindise umuntu ngesabatha, wayesekhuluma esixukwini ethi: “Kunezinsuku eziyisithupha okufanele ukuba kusetshenzwe ngazo. Ngakho-ke wozani ngalezo zinsuku ukuze niphiliswe, hhayi ngosuku lwesabatha.”
Kepha iNkosi yamphendula, yathi: “Bazenzisi, yilowo nalowo kini kayikhiphi yini ngesabatha inkabi yakhe noma imbongolo yakhe esibayeni, ayiqhube ukuba iyophuza na? Bekungafanele yini-ke lo oyindodakazi ka-Abhrahama, obeboshwe nguSathane, iminyaka eli-18, ukuba akhululwe kulokho kuboshwa ngosuku lwesabatha na?”
Wathi ukuba asho lokho, bajabha bonke ababemelene naye, kepha isixuku sonke sathokoza ngenxa yemisebenzi yonke emangalisayo ayenzileyo.
Ngakho-ke uJesu wathi: “Umbuso kaNkulunkulu ufana nani na? Ungafaniswa nani na? Ufana nohlamvu lwesinaphi aluthatha umuntu, waluhlwanyela ensimini yakhe; lwamila, lwaba yisihlahla; izinyoni zezulu zakhela emagatsheni aso.”
Wabuye wathi: “Umbuso kaNkulunkulu ungafaniswa nani na? Ufana nemvubelo eyathathwa ngowesifazane, wayifaka emaqomeni amathathu empuphu, kwaze kwabila konke.”
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