Kwathi ngolunye lwalezo zinsuku efundisa abantu ethempelini, eshumayela ivangeli, kwafika kuye abapristi abakhulu nababhali kanye namalunga;
Bakhuluma kuye, bathi: “Sitshele, lezi zinto uzenza ngagunya lini na? kumbe ngubani okunike leligunya?
Wasephendula wathi kubo: Lami ngizalibuza ilizwi libe linye; futhi ungiphendule:
Ubhapathizo lukaJohane lwaluvela ezulwini noma kubantu na?
Basebekhulumisana bodwa, besithi: Uba sisithi: Ezulwini; uzakuthi: Pho, anikholwanga nguye ngani na?
Kepha uma sithi: Kubantu; abantu bonke bazosikhanda ngamatshe, ngokuba bakholiwe ukuthi uJohane ungumprofethi.
Base bephendula ngokuthi abazi lapho livela khona.
UJesu wathi kubo: “Nami anginitsheli ukuthi ngenza lokhu ngagunya lini.
Waseqala ukukhuluma ebantwini lumfanekiso; Umuntu othile watshala isivini, wasiqashisa kubalimi, waya ezweni elikude isikhathi eside.
Ngesikhathi esifaneleyo wathuma inceku kubalimi, ukuthi bamnike ezithelweni zesivini; kodwa abalimi bayitshaya, bayimukisa ze.
Wabuye wathuma enye inceku; nayo bayishaya, bayiphatha kabi, bayimukisa ze.
Wabuye wathuma neyesithathu; nayo bayilimaza, bayikhiphela ngaphandle.
Wasesithi umninisivini: Ngizakwenzani? Ngiyakuthuma indodana yami ethandekayo; mhlawumbe bayoyihlonipha, lapho beyibona.
Kodwa kwathi abalimi beyibona bakhulumisana besithi: Lo uyindlalifa; wozani siyibulale, ukuze ilifa libe ngelethu.
Base beyikhiphela ngaphandle kwesivini, bayibulala. Uzakwenzani-ke umninisivini?
Uzakuza, ababhubhise laba balimi, isivini asinike abanye. Sebezwile bathi: Kakube njalo.
Wababheka wathi: “Pho, kuyini lokhu okulotshiweyo ukuthi: “Itshe abalinqabayo abakhi lona laba yinhloko yegumbi?
Loba ngubani ozakuwa phezu kwalelotshe uzaphahlazwa; kodwa lowo eliwela phezu kwakhe lizamcola.
Abapristi abakhulu nababhali bafuna ukumbamba ngaso leso sikhathi; besaba abantu, ngokuba baqonda ukuthi uwukhulume lo mfanekiso ngabo.
Basebemqaphela, bathuma izinhloli ezizenza abalungileyo ukuze babambe amazwi akhe, ukuze bamnikele emandleni lakulandleni wombusi.
Bambuza-ke, bathi: “Mfundisi, siyazi ukuthi ukhuluma ufundise kahle, awukhethi buso bamuntu, kodwa ufundisa indlela kaNkulunkulu ngeqiniso;
Kuvunyelwe yini kithi ukuthela kuKesari, noma qha?
Kodwa ebazi ubuqili babo wathi kubo: Lingilingelani?
Ngikhombiseni udenariyu. Inomfanekiso nombhalo kabani? Baphendula bathi: KaKesari.
Wathi kubo: “Ngakho-ke nikani uKesari okukaKesari, noNkulunkulu okukaNkulunkulu.
Abakwazanga ukubamba amazwi akhe phambi kwabantu; bamangala ngokuphendula kwakhe, bathula.
Kwase kufika kuye abathile kubaSadusi, abaphika ukuthi akukho ukuvuka kwabafileyo; bambuza.
bathi: “Mfundisi, uMose wasilobela ukuthi: “Uma kufa umfowabo womuntu enomfazi, kepha engenabantwana, umfowabo makamthathe umkakhe, amvusele umfowabo inzalo.
Kwakukhona izelamani eziyisikhombisa; owokuqala wathatha umfazi, wafa engenabantwana.
Nowesibili wamthatha, wafa engenamntwana;
Nowesithathu wamthatha; kanjalo-ke abayisikhombisa, bafa bengashiyanga mntwana.
Ekugcineni kwabo bonke nowesifazane wafa.
Ngakho-ke ekuvukeni uyakuba ngumkabani kubo na? ngokuba abayisikhombisa babe naye engumkabo.
UJesu waphendula wathi kubo: Abantwana balumhlaba bayathatha, bayendiswa;
Kodwa labo okuthiwa bafanele ukuthola lelolizwe lokuvuka kwabafileyo kabathathani, kabendiswa;
futhi kabasayikufa, ngoba banjengezingilosi; futhi bangabantwana bakaNkulunkulu, bengabantwana bokuvuka.
Kepha ukuthi abafileyo bayavuswa, noMose wakubonakalisa esihlahleni, lapho eyibiza iNkosi ngokuthi uNkulunkulu ka-Abrahama, noNkulunkulu ka-Isaka, noNkulunkulu kaJakobe.
Ngokuba kasiye uNkulunkulu wabafileyo, kodwa owabaphilayo, ngokuba bonke baphilela yena.
Abanye bababhali basebephendula bathi: Mfundisi, ukhulume kuhle.
Emva kwalokho ababanga nasibindi sokumbuza nokumbuza.