5. Xa ndisesehlabathini, ndilukhanyiselo lwehlabathi.
6. Akuba etshilo, watshica emhlabeni, wenza udaka ngamathe, wawaqaba amehlo emfama ngodaka olo.
7. Wathi kuyo, Yiya kuhlamba echibini leSilowa (oko kukuthi ngentetho evakalayo, Thunyiwe). Yemka ngoko, yaya yahlamba, yeza ibona.
8. Baye ngoko abamelwane, nababembona ngaphambili ukuba uyimfama, besithi, Lo asinguye na obehleli engqiba?
9. Abanye babesithi, Nguye lo; bambi ke bathi, Ufana naye; yena ke wayesithi, Ndinguye.
10. Babesithi ngoko kuye, Atheni na ukuvuleka amehlo akho?
11. Waphendula yena wathi, Umntu ekuthiwa nguYesu wenzé udaka, waqaba amehlo am, wathi kum, Yiya echibini leSilowa, uhlambe; ndiyile ke ndahlamba, ndabuya ndibona.
12. Bathi ngoko kuye, Úphi na yena? Athi, Andazi.
13. Bamzisa kubaFarisi lowo ubefudula eyimfama.
14. Ke kaloku yaye iyisabatha, oko uYesu wenza udaka, wawavula amehlo akhe.
15. Babuya ngoko ke bambuza nabaFarisi, ukuba útheni na ukuba abuye abone. Wathi ke yena kubo, Ubeké udaka emehlweni am, ndaza ndahlamba; ndiyabona ke.
16. Babesithi ngoko abathile bakubaFarisi, Lo mntu asingowakwaThixo, ngokuba isabatha akayigcini. Babesithi abanye, Angáthini na umntu ongumoni ukwenza imiqondiso engakanana?
17. Bathi qheke kubini. Babuya bathi kwimfama, Ùthini na wena ngaye, ewavulile nje amehlo akho? Uthe ke yena, Ungumprofeti.
18. Akakholwa ngoko amaYuda ngaye, ukuba ebeyimfama, wabuye wabona, ada abiza abazali balowo ubuye wabona.
19. Aza ababuza esithi, Lo ngunyana wenu na, enithi nina wazalwa eyimfama?
20. Phofu ubona ngani na ngoku? Abazali bakhe bawaphendula bathi, Siyazi ukuba lo ngunyana wethu, kwanokuba ke wazalwa eyimfama;
21. le nto ke abonayo ngoku asazi, novulé amehlo akhe, asimazi thina; uselemkhulu yena, buzani kuye, wozithethela.
22. Batsho abazali bakhe, ngokuba babesoyika amaYuda; kuba amaYuda abeselenqophisene ngokuthi, Ukuba uthe umntu wamvuma ukuba nguKristu,* aze akhutshwe esikhungwini.
23. Kungenxa yoko abazali bakhe bathi, Uselemkhulu, buzani kuye.