Khona abaFarisi basuka benza icebo lokumthiya ekukhulumeni kwakhe.
Bathuma kuye abafundi babo kanye nabakaHerode, bathi: “Mfundisi, siyazi ukuthi uqinisile, ufundisa indlela kaNkulunkulu ngeqiniso, awukhathali ngamuntu, ngokuba awubheki ubuso babantu.
Ngakho sitshele ukuthi wena uthini? Kuvunyelwe ukuthela kuKesari noma qha?
Kodwa uJesu ebazi ububi babo wathi: Bazenzisi, lingilingelani?
Ngiboniseni imali yokuthela. Basebeletha kuye udenariyo.
Wasesithi kubo: Ngokabani lomfanekiso lombhalo?
Bathi kuye: KaKesari. Wayesethi kubo: “Ngakho-ke nikani uKesari okukaKesari; nakuNkulunkulu okukaNkulunkulu.
Sebezwile lawo mazwi bamangala, bamshiya, bahamba.
Ngalolo suku kweza kuye abaSadusi, abathi akukho ukuvuka kwabafileyo, bambuza.
Besithi: Mfundisi, uMozisi wathi: Uba indoda isifa ingelamntwana, umfowabo kamngene umkakhe, amvusele umfowabo inzalo.
Kwakukhona kithi izelamani eziyisikhombisa; owokuqala esethethe umfazi, wafa, engenanzalo, watshiya umkakhe kumfowabo.
Kanjalo nowesibili, nowesithathu, kwaze kwaba kowesikhombisa.
Ekugcineni kwabo bonke owesifazane wafa naye.
Ngakho-ke ekuvukeni uyakuba ngumkabani kwabayisikhombisa na? ngoba bonke babenaye.
UJesu waphendula, wathi kubo: Nidukile, ningayazi imibhalo namandla kaNkulunkulu.
Ngoba ekuvukeni kwabafileyo kabathathanga, kabendiswa, kodwa banjengezingilosi zikaNkulunkulu ezulwini.
Kodwa mayelana lokuvuka kwabafileyo, kalifundanga yini okwakhulunywa kini nguNkulunkulu, esithi:
Mina nginguNkulunkulu kaAbrahama, loNkulunkulu kaIsaka, loNkulunkulu kaJakobe? UNkulunkulu kasiye uNkulunkulu wabafileyo kodwa owabaphilayo.
Kwathi amaxuku ekuzwa lokho, amangala ngokufundisa kwakhe.
Kodwa abaFarisi sebezwile ukuthi uJesu ubathulisile abaSadusi, babuthana ndawonye.
Omunye wabo ongumthetho wambuza, emlinga, wathi.
Mfundisi, imuphi umyalo omkhulu emthethweni na?
UJesu wathi kuye: “Woyithanda iNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho ngayo yonke inhliziyo yakho, nangawo wonke umphefumulo wakho, nangayo yonke ingqondo yakho.
Lona ngumyalo wokuqala nomkhulu.
Owesibili ofana nawo uthi: Wothanda umakhelwane wakho njengalokhu uzithanda wena.
Kuleyo miyalo emibili kubambelela umthetho wonke nabaprofethi.
Kwathi sebebuthene abaFarisi, uJesu wababuza wathi:
esithi: Licabangani ngoKristu? uyindodana kabani? Basebesithi kuye: INdodana kaDavida.
Wathi kubo: Pho uDavida wambiza njani ngoMoya ngokuthi yiNkosi, esithi:
INkosi yathi eNkosini yami: Hlala ngakwesokunene sami, ngize ngenze izitha zakho zibe yisenabelo senyawo zakho?
Ngakho uba uDavida embiza ngokuthi Nkosi, uyindodana yakhe njani?
Akwabangakho-muntu owakwazi ukumphendula izwi