28 Kwatsi kube bantfu bakuve loko, batfukutsela babila, bacala bamemeta batsi: “Lomkhulu nguDiyana webase-Efesu!”
Emakhosi emhlaba asukume phansi ahloma, nebabusi bahlangene bemelana naSimakadze, bemelana neMgcotjwa wakhe batsi:
Kulengela somiso etikwemanti ayo! Ayawukoma, ngobe kulive letithico, bantfu balo bahlanyiswa kwesaba leto tithico.
Kwatsi Herodi asabonile kutsi tati timyengile, watfukutsela wagcwala kokana, watfumela kutsi akubulawe bonkhe bantfwana labadvuna baseBhetlehema nakuto tonkhe tindzawo tangakhona lababeneminyaka lemibili nome ngephansi, kwaya ngesikhatsi labesibutisise etatini.
Batsi nabefika e-Efesu, wabashiya lapho boPhrisila na-Akhwila, yena waya wangena esinagogeni waphendvulana nemaJuda.
Indvodza lebeyisebentisa isiliva, libito layo kunguDemetriyusi, yayenta titfombe letincane telithempeli laDiyana, labengunkulunkulu lomsikati. Lomsebenti bewungenisa imali lenyenti kubakhandzi.
Liqoqo letiphatsimandla lisalalele Stefano latfukutsela kakhulu, lacucudza imihlatsi.
Tfokotani-ke, nine mazulu, nani lenihlala kuwo! Kodvwa maye kuwe, mhlaba nelwandle, ngobe Mhlebi sewehlele kini ngentfukutselo lenkhulu, ngobe uyati kutsi sikhatsi sakhe sesifishane!”
Bantfu bakhonta lonyokangwenya, ngobe emandla akhe abewanike lesilo; lesilo basikhonta batsi: “Ngubani longalwa naso?”
Onkhe lawa lalishumi acondze intfo yinye: Kutsi anike silo emandla awo neligunya.