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3 Jesu waphindze wangena esinagogeni, futsi bekunendvodza lebeyinesandla lesikhubatekile.*+ 2 BaFarisi bebamgadzile bafuna kubona kutsi utayiphilisa yini lendvodza ngeliSabatha khona batombeka licala. 3 Jesu watsi kulendvodza: “Sukuma ute lapha ngembili.” 4 Wase utsi kulabaFarisi: “Ngukuphi lesivumeleke kukwenta ngeliSabatha, ngulokuhle nobe ngulokubi? Kuvumelekile yini kusindzisa kuphila nobe kubulala ngeliSabatha?”+ Kodvwa abazange bamphendvule. 5 Wababuka acansukile, futsi weva buhlungu ngenca yebulukhuni betinhlitiyo tabo,+ wase utsi kulendvodza: “Yelula sandla sakho.” Yaselula, sase siyelapheka. 6 BaFarisi baphuma masinyane bahlanganisa tinhloko nemalunga elicembu laHerodi,+ bakha lisu lekubulala Jesu.
7 Jesu nebafundzi bakhe besuka baya ngaselwandle, futsi sicumbi lesikhulu sebantfu lesasisuka eGalile naseJudiya samlandzela.+ 8 Ngesikhatsi beva ngato tonkhe letintfo Jesu lebekatenta, bantfu labanyenti lebebasuka eJerusalema, e-Idumiya, nalebebasuka ngesheya kweJordane, eThire naseSidoni beta kuye. 9 Watjela bafundzi bakhe kutsi bamlungisele sikebhe lebekatasisebentisa nasesimminyetela lesicumbi sebantfu. 10 Welapha bantfu labanyenti, kangangekutsi bonkhe labebagula kakhulu besebaminyetelene eceleni kwakhe kute bamtsintse.+ 11 Ngisho nalabo lebebanemadimoni+ bebatsi nabambona baguce embikwakhe futsi bamemete batsi: “Wena uyiNdvodzana yaNkulunkulu.”+ 12 Kodvwa esikhatsini lesinyenti bekabecwayisa kutsi bangatjeli muntfu ngaye.+
13 Wakhuphukela entsabeni, wabita labanye bafundzi bakhe,+ futsi beta kuye.+ 14 Wakha* licembu lalabangu-12, wababita ngekutsi baphostoli, futsi laba ngibo lebebatawuhamba naye. Abetawuphindze abatfume kutsi bayoshumayela, 15 abanike nemandla ekukhipha emadimoni.+
16 Naba-ke laba labangu-12+ labakhetsa: Simoni, lambita ngekutsi nguPhetro,+ 17 Jakobe indvodzana yaZebedi nemnakabo longuJohane (lababita ngekutsi boBhowanegese, lokusho kutsi “Emadvodzana Ekudvuma Kwelitulu”),+ 18 Andreya, Filiphu, Bhatalomewu, Matewu, Tomase, Jakobe indvodzana ya-Alfiyose, Thadiyosi, Simoni lobekakhutsele, 19 kanye naJudasi Skariyothi, lowagcine amtsengisile.
Jesu wase uyesuka uya endlini, 20 futsi nalapha sicumbi sebantfu sagcwala, kangangekutsi abalitfolanga ngisho nelitfuba lekudla. 21 Kodvwa ngesikhatsi bakubo beva ngaloku, beta batomlandza ngobe bebatsi: “Uyahlanya.”+ 22 Netati temtsetfo lebetichamuka eJerusalema betitsi: “UnaBhelzebhule,* futsi ukhipha emadimoni ngenkhosi yemadimoni.”+ 23 Jesu watibita letati temtsetfo, wakhuluma nato asebentisa imifanekiso, watsi: “Kodvwa Sathane angamcosha njani Sathane? 24 Nangabe umbuso wehlukene ekhatsi ngeke ume,+ 25 futsi nangabe indlu yehlukene ekhatsi ngeke ime. 26 Ngalokufanako, nangabe Sathane ativukela yena futsi ehlukene ekhatsi, ngeke eme, kodvwa kutawube kusho kuphela kwakhe. 27 Kute umuntfu longagcekeza endlini yendvodza lenemandla futsi ebe imphahla yayo, nangabe angacali ngekubopha lendvodza khona atewukwati kugcekeza lendlu. 28 Ngicinisile ngitsi kini: Bantfu batawutsetselelwa tonkhe tono tabo, ngisho nobe sebone kakhulu futsi bahlambalata kanyenti kangakanani. 29 Kodvwa nobe ngubani lohlambalata umoya longcwele akayuze atsetselelwe,+ kepha utawuba nelicala laphakadze.”+ 30 Loku wakusho ngobe bebatsi: “Unelidimoni.”+
31 Kweta make wakhe nabomnakabo,+ bema ngephandle, bacela kutsi abitwe.+ 32 Bantfu bebagcwele futsi bahleti phansi, base bayambikela batsi: “Make wakho nabomnakenu balapha ngephandle bayakufuna.”+ 33 Jesu wabaphendvula watsi: “Ngubani make wami, futsi bobani bomnaketfu?” 34 Ngako wabuka labo lebebahleti edvute naye, watsi: “Nangu make wami nabomnaketfu!+ 35 Nobe ngubani lowenta intsandvo yaNkulunkulu nguye longumnaketfu, dzadzewetfu kanye namake.”+