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.