25. “Xa selethe waphakama umninindlu, wavala emnyango, nothi nina, nime ngaphandle, ninkqonkqoze emnyango, nisithi: ‘Nkosi, sivulele.’ Wophendula ke umninindlu, athi kuni: ‘Andinazi apho nivela khona.’
26. Ke ngoko nina nothi: ‘Kaloku sikhe satya, sasela, ukho nawe; nawe wafundisa ezitalatweni zethu.’
27. Kodwa yena wothi: ‘Inene, andinazi apho nivela khona. Mkani kum, nina nonke benzi bobubi.’
28. Khona apho niya kulila ningcungcutheke, xa nibona uAbraham noIsake noYakobi nabo bonke abashumayeli bamandulo bexhamla ubuncwane bokulawulwa nguThixo, nibe nina nikhutshelwe ngaphandle.
29. Abantu bofika bevela empumalanga nasentshonalanga, bevela ngasentla nangasezantsi, babuxhamle ubuncwane bokulawulwa nguThixo.
30. Niyabona ke, bakho abokugqibela abaya kuba ngabokuqala, bekho nabokuqala abaya kuba ngabokugqibela.”
31. Kwangelo xesha kwafika abaFarasi abathile, bathi kuYesu: “Phuma umke apha, kuba uHerode ufuna ukukubulala.”
32. Wathi kubo: “Yiyani nithi kuloo mpungutye: ‘Uyabona, ndikhupha iindimoni, ndiphilise, namhlanje nangomso, ndithi ngowesithathu umhla ndigqibe.’
33. Kodwa ndimelwe kukuthi ndihambe namhlanje nangomso nangomsomnye, kuba umshumayeli akangekhe abulawe kwenye indawo ngaphandle kwaseJerusalem.
34. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, wena ubabulalayo abashumayeli, ubakhande ngamatye abo bathunywa kuwe nguThixo! Kunini na ndifuna ukubawola abantu bakho ngokwesikhukukazi esigquma amantshontsho aso ngamaphiko, waza wena awavuma.
35. Niyabona, uThixo uyanifulathela nomzi wenu. Inene, aniyi kuba sandibona de kufike ixesha eniya kuthi: ‘Makabongwe lowo uzayo egameni leNkosi.’”