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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.”+