Wasebizela ndawonye abafundi bakhe abayishumi nambili, wabanika amandla negunya phezu kwamademoni onke, nokuphulukisa izifo.
Wabathuma ukuthi bashumayele umbuso kaNkulunkulu, baphulukise abagulayo.
Wathi kubo: “Ningaphathi lutho lwendlela, naludondolo, nasikhwama, nasinkwa, namali; futhi ningabi namabhantshi amabili.
Nakuyiphi indlu eningena kuyo, hlalani khona, nimuke lapho.
Lalowo ongayikunamukela, anothi niphuma kulowo muzi, nivuthulule nothuli ezinyaweni zenu, kube ngubufakazi kubo.
Base bemuka, badabula imizi, beshumayela ivangeli, bephulukisa ezindaweni zonke.
Kepha uHerode umtetrarki wezwa konke okwenziwa nguye, wasambatheka, ngokuba abanye bathi uJohane uvukile kwabafileyo;
labanye ukuthi uEliya ubonakele; labanye ukuthi kwavuka omunye wabaprofethi abadala.
UHerodi wathi: “UJohane ngamnquma ikhanda; wasefisa ukumbona.
Sebebuyile abaphostoli bamtshela konke ababekwenzile. Wabathatha, wamuka nabo bebodwa endaweni eyihlane yomuzi othiwa iBetsayida.
Kwathi isixuku sekwazi lokho, samlandela;
Kwathi sekuqala ukuhwalala, kwafika abalitshumi lambili, bathi kuye: Yekisa ixuku lihambe, ukuze baye emizaneni lesemaphandleni, balale, bathole ukudla; ngoba lapha sisenkangala. indawo.
Kodwa wathi kubo: Bapheni lina ukudla. Base bethi: “Asisenazinkwa eziyisihlanu nezinhlanzi ezimbili; ngaphandle kokuthi sihambe sibathengele bonke lababantu inyama.
Ngokuba kwakungamadoda angathi izinkulungwane eziyisihlanu. Wasesithi kubafundi bakhe: Bahlaliseni phansi ngamaviyo ngamatshumi amahlanu.
Benza njalo, babahlalisa bonke.
Wazithabatha izinkwa eziyisihlanu nezinhlanzi ezimbili, wabheka ngasezulwini, wazibusisa, wazihlephula, wanika abafundi ukuba babeke phambi kwesixuku.
Badla, basutha bonke, kwabuthwa imvuthuluka eseleyo kubo, iziqabetho eziyishumi nambili.
Kwathi ekhuleka yedwa, abafundi bakhe babenaye, wababuza, wathi: “Isixuku sithi ngingubani na?
Basebephendula bathi: UJohane uMbhabhathizi; kodwa abanye bathi: UEliya; labanye bathi: Kuvukile omunye wabaprofethi abadala.
Wathi kubo: “Nina-ke nithi ngingubani na? UPetro waphendula wathi: UKristu kaNkulunkulu.
Wabalaya kakhulu, wabalaya ukuthi bangatsheli muntu lokho;
esithi: INdodana yomuntu imelwe ukuhlupheka ngokuningi, ilahlwe ngamalunga nabapristi abakhulu nababhali, ibulawe, futhi ivuswe ngosuku lwesithathu.
Wathi kubo bonke: “Uma umuntu ethanda ukungilandela, makazidele, athabathe isiphambano sakhe imihla ngemihla, angilandele.
Ngokuba yilowo nalowo othanda ukusindisa ukuphila kwakhe uyakulahlekelwa yikho, kepha olahlekelwa ngukuphila kwakhe ngenxa yami uyakukusindisa.
Ngokuba kuyakumsizani umuntu, uma ezuza izwe lonke, kodwa ezilahlekele noma alahlwe?
Ngokuba yilowo nalowo onamahloni ngami nangamazwi ami, iNdodana yomuntu iyakuba namahloni ngaye, lapho iza ngenkazimulo yayo, nekaYise, neyezingelosi ezingcwele.
Kodwa ngiqinisile ngithi kini: Bakhona abanye kwabemiyo lapha, abangayikukuzwa ukufa, baze babone umbuso kaNkulunkulu.
Kwathi emva kwalawo mazwi kungathi izinsuku eziyisishiyagalombili, wathatha oPetru noJohane noJakobe, wakhuphukela entabeni ukuyokhuleka.
Kwathi ekhuleka, isimo sobuso bakhe saguquka, nengubo yakhe yaba mhlophe, yabenyezela.
Bheka, kwakhuluma naye amadoda amabili, oMose no-Eliya;
ababonakala ngenkazimulo, bakhuluma ngokumuka kwakhe abezakufeza eJerusalema.
Kepha uPetru nababe naye babesindwa ubuthongo; sebevukile babona inkazimulo yakhe namadoda amabili ayemi naye.
Kwathi ekwahlukaneni kwawo kuye, uPetru wathi kuJesu: “Rabi, kuhle ukuba sibe lapha; elinye libe ngelakho, elinye libe ngelikaMose, elinye libe ngelika-Eliya, engakwazi akushoyo.
Esakhuluma lokho, kwafika ifu, labasithibeza; besaba lapho bengena efwini.
Kwavela izwi efwini, lithi: “Lo uyiNdodana yami ethandekayo;
Kwathi izwi seliphumile, uJesu wafunyanwa eyedwa. Bakugcina, abatshela muntu ngalezo zinsuku lutho lwalezo zinto ababezibonile.
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