1 “Kodvwa nyalo sebahlekisa ngami, bantfu labancane kunami, boyise babo lengangingabeyisa ngingabavumeli kutsi basite tinja tami ekweluseni timvu tami.
Elisha wesuka lapho waya eBetheli. Watsi asahamba ngemgwaco, bafana baphuma kulelidolobha bamphukuta bamhheletela, bamemeta batsi: “Yenyuka wena mphandla-ndzini! Yenyuka wena mphandla-ndzini!”
Sengiyinhlekisa ngisho nakubangani bami, lite nome Nkulunkulu angiphendvula nangikhala kuye, ngaba yintfo yekuhlekwa nje, lite nome ngilungile futsi ngingenacala.
Ngangingatfolani nje ngemsebenti wetandla tabo, bantfu lababemandla abo esukile kubo?
Labatigcabhako bangihleka bulima; kepha ngingeke ngiphambuke emtsetfweni wakho.
Ngiyindzabamlonyeni kulabahlala emasangweni; tidzakwa tihlabela tigiye ngami.
Bantfu bayawucindzetelana, umuntfu acindzetele lomunye, makhelwane acindzetele makhelwane. Labasha bayawuvukela labadzala, bantfu phaca bavukele lababaphetse.
Labanye bamkhafulela ngematse, bammbonya buso bakhe, bamshaya batsi: “Phrofetha!” Nabogadzi imbala bammukula.
Wase utsi kubo: “Lomuntfu nimletse lapha kimi natsi wedukisa bantfu. Manje, kumangalelwa kwakhe sengikuhlolisisile khona la embikwenu, ngimtfole ate licala ngaletintfo lenimmangalele ngato.
Sonkhe sicumbi samemeta satsi: “Msuse loJesu! Sikhululele Bharaba!”
Bantfu bema babukela, kodvwa baholi bemaJuda bamhhalatisa, bamphukuta, bahlekisa ngaye, batsi: “Wabasindzisa labanye; ake atisindzise naye, nangabe anguKhristu lokhetfwe nguNkulunkulu!”
Lesinye saletigelekece letatilengisiwe setfuka Jesu satsi kuye: “Awusiye yini Khristu? Tisindzise wena kanye natsi!”
Kodvwa emaJuda aba nemona ase abutsa tihlophoyi letatitizulela etitaladini atihlanganisa, atsi atisuse umsindvo tihlasele umuti waJasoni, afuna kukhipha boPawula naSilasi abaletse embikwemkhambatsi.
Lomunye wabo labengumphrofethi wadzimate watsi: “BaseKhrethe babacali bemanga njalo nje, batilwane letimbi, batimiti letingemavila.”