NgokukaMathewu 17:1-27
17 Ngemva kwezinsuku eziyisithupha, uJesu wathatha uPetru noJakobe noJohane umfowabo, wahamba nabo baya entabeni ephakeme bebodwa. +
2 Isimo sakhe saguqulwa phambi kwabo; ubuso bakhe bakhanya njengelanga, nezingubo zakhe zangaphandle zakhazimula* njengokukhanya. +
3 Bheka! babona uMose no-Eliya bexoxa naye.
4 UPetru wabe esethi kuJesu: “Nkosi, kuhle ukuba lapha. Uma uthanda, ngizomisa amatende amathathu lapha, elinye libe ngelakho, elinye libe ngelikaMose, elinye libe ngelika-Eliya.”
5 Esakhuluma, bheka! ifu elikhanyayo labamboza, kwezwakala izwi kulelo fu, lathi: “Le yiNdodana yami, ethandekayo, engiyamukele. + Yilaleleni.” +
6 Lapho bezwa lokhu abafundi bawa ngobuso futhi besaba kakhulu.
7 Khona-ke uJesu wasondela wabathinta, wathi: “Sukumani. Ningesabi.”
8 Lapho bephakamisa amakhanda, ababonanga muntu ngaphandle kukaJesu.
9 Njengoba behla entabeni, uJesu wabayala, wathi: “Ningatsheli muntu ngalo mbono ize ivuswe iNdodana yomuntu kwabafile.” +
10 Nokho, abafundi bambuza lo mbuzo: “Pho kungani ababhali bethi kumelwe kufike u-Eliya kuqala?” +
11 Ephendula wathi: “U-Eliya uyeza ngempela, futhi uyobuyisela zonke izinto. +
12 Nokho, ngithi kini u-Eliya usefikile kakade kodwa abamazanga kunalokho benza abakuthandayo kuye. + Ngale ndlela neNdodana yomuntu izohlupheka ezandleni zabo.” +
13 Khona-ke abafundi baqonda ukuthi wayekhuluma ngoJohane uMbhapathizi.
14 Lapho besondela ngasesixukwini, + umuntu othile weza kuye, waguqa wathi:
15 “Nkosi, yiba nesihe endodaneni yami, ngoba inesithuthwane futhi iyagula. Iwela emlilweni kaningi nasemanzini kaningi. +
16 Ngiyilethe kubafundi bakho, kodwa abakwazanga ukuyelapha.”
17 UJesu ephendula wathi: “O sizukulwane esingenalukholo nesisontekile, + kumelwe ngiqhubeke nginani kuze kube nini? Kumelwe nginibekezelele kuze kube nini? Yilethe lapha kimi.”
18 UJesu wayeselikhuza idemoni, laphuma kuye, umfana welapheka kusukela ngalelo hora. +
19 Ngemva kwalokho abafundi beza kuJesu ngasese bathi: “Kungani thina singakwazanga ukulixosha?”
20 Wathi kubo: “Kungenxa yokholo lwenu oluncane. Ngoba ngiqinisile ngithi kini, uma ninokholo olulingana nohlamvu lwesinaphi, niyothi kule ntaba, ‘Suka lapha uye laphaya,’ isuke, futhi akukho lutho eningeke nikwazi ukulwenza.” +
21 *——
22 Kwakungesikhathi bebuthene ndawonye eGalile lapho uJesu athi kubo: “INdodana yomuntu izonikelwa ezandleni zabantu, +
23 futhi bazoyibulala, ngosuku lwesithathu ivuswe.” + Ngakho baba lusizi kakhulu.
24 Ngemva kokuba befike eKapernawume amadoda aqoqa intela yamadrakma amabili* asondela kuPetru athi: “Umfundisi wenu akayikhokhi yini intela yamadrakma amabili?” +
25 Wathi: “Yebo, uyayikhokha.” Nokho, lapho engena endlini uJesu wakhuluma naye kuqala wathi: “Ucabangani, Simoni? Amakhosi omhlaba ayamukela kobani intela yempahla noma intela yekhanda? Emadodaneni awo noma ezihambini?”
26 Lapho ethi: “Ezihambini,” uJesu wathi kuye: “Khona-ke, ngempela amadodana awayikhokhi intela.
27 Kodwa ukuze singabakhubi, + hamba uye olwandle, uphonse udobo, bese ubamba inhlanzi ephuma kuqala, futhi lapho uvula umlomo wayo, uzothola uhlamvu lwesiliva.* Luthathe ubanike lona ukhokhele mina nawe.”
Imibhalo yaphansi
^ Noma, “zaba mhlophe.”
^ Bheka iSithasiselo A3.
^ NgesiGreki, “yamadrakma aphindwe kabili.” Bheka iSithasiselo B14.
^ NgesiGreki, “uhlamvu lwemali,” kucatshangwa ukuthi yitetradrakma. Bheka iSithasiselo B14.
