IVangeli Elabhalwa NguJohane 13:1-38
13 UJesu wayevele ebathanda abangabakhe ababesemhlabeni futhi waqhubeka ebathanda kwaze kwaba sekucineni.+ Umkhosi wePhasika ungakafiki wayesekwazi ukuthi ihora lakhe lokuthi atshiye umhlaba lo aye kuYise+ laselifikile.+
2 Ngalesosikhathi uDeveli wayesekufakile enhliziyweni kaJudasi Iskariyothi+ indodana kaSimoni ukuthi amthengise.+ UJesu labafundi bakhe babesidla ukudla kwantambama njalo
3 wayekwazi ukuthi uYise wayefake izinto zonke esandleni sakhe lokuthi yena wayevela kuNkulunkulu futhi wayesiya kuNkulunkulu.+
4 Ngakho wasukuma besadla, wabeka eceleni izembatho zakhe zangaphandle. Wasethatha ithawulo wayithandela ekhalweni,+
5 wathela amanzi enditshini waqalisa ukugezisa abafundi bakhe inyawo, ebathawula ngethawulo ayeyithandele.
6 Wathi esefike kuSimoni Phetro, uPhetro wathi kuye: “Nkosi, kambe ungangigezisa inyawo?”
7 UJesu wamphendula wathi: “Engikwenzayo awukuzwisisi khathesi, kodwa uzakuzwisisa ngemva kwezinto lezi.”
8 UPhetro wathi: “Awusoze ungigezise inyawo loba sekutheni.” UJesu wamphendula wathi: “Awulasabelo lami nxa ngingakugezisanga inyawo.”+
9 USimoni Phetro wasesithi: “Nkosi ungangigezisi inyawo kuphela, ngigezisa lezandla lekhanda.”
10 UJesu wathi kuye: “Ogeze umzimba kadingi kugeziswa okunye futhi ngaphandle kwenyawo, uyabe esehlanzeke waphelela. Lina madoda lihlanzekile kodwa ayisini lonke elihlanzekileyo.”
11 Wayemazi umuntu owayezamthengisa+ yikho wathi: “Ayisini lonke elihlanzekileyo.”
12 Wathi eseqedile ukubagezisa inyawo wagqoka izembatho zakhe zangaphandle waphinda wahlala etafuleni wathi kubo: “Liyakuzwisisa yini lokhu engikwenze kini?
13 Lingibiza ngokuthi ‘Mfundisi’ langokuthi ‘Nkosi,’ njalo liqondile ngoba ngiyikho lokho.+
14 Yikho nxa mina engiyiNkosi loMfundisi ngiligezise inyawo,+ lani kumele ligezisane* inyawo+
15 ngoba ngilitshiyele isibonelo ukuze lani lenze njengoba ngenzile kini.+
16 Ngiqinisile sibili ngithi kini, inceku kayinkulu kulenkosi yayo, lalowo othunyiweyo kamkhulu kulalowo omthumileyo.
17 Nxa lizazi izinto lezi lizathokoza lingazenza.+
18 Angikhulumi ngani lonke, ngiyabazi engibakhethileyo. Kodwa lokhu kwenzakele ukuze kugcwaliseke okwatshiwo ngumbhalo othi:+ ‘Obesidla lami usengihlamukele.’*+
19 Khathesi ngilitshela kungakenzakali ukuze nxa sekusenzakala likholwe ukuthi nginguye.+
20 Ngiqinisile sibili ngithi kini, loba ngubani owemukela lowo engimthumileyo uyangemukela lami+ njalo loba ngubani ongemukelayo wemukela lalowo ongithumileyo.”+
21 UJesu wathi esekhulume amazwi la wakhathazeka emoyeni, wasefakaza esithi: “Ngiqinisile sibili ngithi kini, omunye wenu uzangithengisa.”+
22 Abafundi baqalisa ukukhangelana bezibuza ukuthi wayengabe esitsho bani.+
23 Omunye wabafundi, lowo owayethandwa nguJesu,+ wayehlezi eduze kwakhe.
24 USimoni Phetro wanqekuza ikhanda lakhe embiza, wathi kuye: “Akusitshele ukuthi ngubani akhuluma ngaye.”
25 Umfundi lo weyama esifubeni sikaJesu wathi kuye: “Nkosi, ngubani?”+
26 UJesu waphendula wathi: “Ngulowo engizamnika ucezu lwesinkwa engizalutsheba.”+ Wathi esesitshebile isinkwa leso, wasinika uJudasi indodana kaSimoni Iskariyothi.
27 UJudasi uthe esesithethe isinkwa, uSathane wangena kuye.+ Ngakho uJesu wathi kuye: “Okwenzayo kwenze masinyane.”
28 Lanxa kunjalo, kakho kulabo ababesidla laye owayekwazi ukuthi kungani etsho njalo kuye.
29 Abanye baze bacabanga ukuthi njengoba uJudasi wayegcina ibhokisi lemali,+ uJesu wayesithi athenge ababezakufuna emkhosini kumbe anike abayanga imali.
30 Eqeda ukwamukela ucezu lwesinkwa wahle waphuma. Ngalesosikhathi kwasekusebusuku.+
31 UJudasi wathi esephumile, uJesu wathi: “Khathesi iNdodana yomuntu isikhazinyuliswa+ njalo uNkulunkulu usekhazinyuliswa ngayo.
32 NguNkulunkulu ozayikhazimulisa+ futhi uzayikhazimulisa masinyane.
33 Bantwana abathandekayo, ngiseselani okwesikhatshana. Lizangidinga, futhi njengoba ngatshela amaJuda ngathi, ‘Lapho engiyakhona ngeke libuye,’+ lani ngilitshela khonokho.
34 Ngilinika umlayo omutsha wokuthi lithandane. Thandanani+ ngendlela lami engilithande ngayo.+
35 Nxa lithandana,+ abantu bonke bazakwazi ukuthi lingabafundi bami.”
36 USimoni Phetro wathi kuye: “Nkosi uyangaphi?” UJesu waphendula wathi: “Lapho engiyakhona ngeke ungilandele khathesi kodwa uzalandela ngokuhamba kwesikhathi.”+
37 UPhetro wathi kuye: “Nkosi, kungani ngingeke ngikulandele khathesi? Ngizanikela ngempilo yami ngenxa yakho.”+
38 UJesu waphendula wathi: “Utsho ukuthi uzanikela ngempilo yakho ngenxa yami? Ngiqinisile sibili ngithi kuwe, iqhude lingakakhali uzabe usungiphike kathathu.”+
Amabala angaphansi
^ Kumbe, “lilomlandu wokugezisana.”
^ NgesiGrikhi, “usengiphakamisele isithende sakhe.”
