Ngaselwandle lwaseTibheriya
Bebuyele ekulobeni bengabambi nto, barhuqa iintlanzi ezilikhulu elinamashumi mahlanu anesithathu ngelizwi lomntu abangamaziyo, bafike isidlo sakusasa sele siphekwa. Ngasemlilweni wamalahle, uYesu ubuza uPetros kathathu enoba uyamthanda na, amnike izimvu ukuba azondle, aze amxelele ngokucacileyo: ndilandele.
21 1Emva koko uYesu wabuya wazibonakalisa kubafundi ngaselwandle lwaseTibheriya—wazibonakalisa ngolu hlobo. 2Babehlangene uSimon Petros, noTomas obizwa ngokuba yiWele, noNataniyeli waseKana yaseGalili, noonyana bakaZebhedi, nabanye abafundi ababini. 3USimon Petros wathi kubo: “Ndiya kuloba.” Bathi: “Siza kuhamba nawe.” Baphuma ke bangena esikhepheni, kodwa abazange babambe nto ngobo busuku.
4Kwathi kusasa uYesu wema onxwemeni, kodwa abafundi abazange baqonde ukuba nguYesu.
5UYesu wathi kubo: “Bantwana, aninazo na iintlanzi?” Bamphendula bathi: “Hayi.”
6Wathi kubo: “Phosani umnatha ngasekunene kwesikhephe, niya kufumana iintlanzi.” Bawuphosa ke, baza abakwazi ukuwurhuqela ngaphakathi ngenxa yobuninzi beentlanzi.
7Umfundi lowo uYesu wayemthanda wathi kuPetros: “YiNkosi!” Akuva ukuba yiNkosi, uSimon Petros wambatha ingubo yakhe—kuba wayeyikhulule ukuze asebenze—waza waziphosa elwandle. 8Abanye abafundi beza ngesikhephe, berhuqa umnatha ozele ziintlanzi, kuba babekwiimitha ezimalunga nekhulu ukusuka onxwemeni. 9Bakufika onxwemeni, babona umlilo wamalahle kukho iintlanzi phezu kwawo, nesonka.
10UYesu wathi kubo: “Ziseni ezinye zeentlanzi enizibambe ngoku.”
11USimon Petros wenyuka ke warhuqela umnatha onxwemeni, uzele ziintlanzi ezinkulu ezilikhulu elinamashumi amahlanu anesithathu; nangona zazizininzi kangako, awuzange ukrazuke.
12UYesu wathi kubo: “Yizani, nidle isidlo sakusasa.” Akubangakho namnye kubafundi owaba nobuganga bokumbuza athi: “Ungubani na?”—besazi ukuba yiNkosi.
13UYesu weza, wathabatha isonka, wabanika, kwanjalo neentlanzi. 14Oku kwakusele kusisihlandlo sesithathu uYesu ezibonakalisa kubafundi emva kokuvuswa kwabafileyo.
15Bakugqiba ukudla isidlo sakusasa, uYesu wabuza kuSimon Petros wathi: “Simon, nyana kaYohane, undithanda ngentliziyo yakho yonke na, ngaphezu kwaba?” Waphendula wathi: “Ewe, Nkosi, uyazi ukuba ndikuthanda njengomhlobo.” UYesu wathi kuye: “Yondla amatakane am.”
16Okwesibini uYesu wabuza wathi: “Simon, nyana kaYohane, undithanda ngentliziyo yakho yonke na?” Waphendula wathi: “Ewe, Nkosi, uyazi ukuba ndikuthanda njengomhlobo.” UYesu wathi: “Aluse izimvu zam.”
17Okwesithathu uYesu wathi kuye: “Simon, nyana kaYohane, undithanda njengomhlobo na?” UPetros waba buhlungu kuba uYesu wambuza okwesithathu esithi: “Undithanda njengomhlobo na?” wathi: “Nkosi, wena wazi konke; uyazi ukuba ndikuthanda njengomhlobo.” UYesu wathi kuye: “Yondla izimvu zam.”
18“Inene, inene, ndithi kuwe: xa wawusemtsha, wawuzinxiba ngokwakho uye apho ufuna khona; kodwa xa usuba mdala, uya kwelula izandla zakho, aze omnye akunxibise akuse apho ungafuni ukuya khona.” 19UYesu watsho oku ukubonakalisa ukuba nguluphi na uhlobo lokufa uPetros awayeya kumzukisa ngalo uBawo wethu. Emva koko wathi kuye: “Ndilandele.”
20UPetros waguquka wabona umfundi lowo uYesu wayemthanda elandela—lowo wayencike kuYesu esidlweni, wabuza wathi: “Nkosi, ngubani oya kukungcatsha?” 21Akumbona uPetros, wathi kuYesu: “Nkosi, kuthekani ngalo mntu?”
22UYesu wathi kuye: “Ukuba ndifuna ukuba ahlale ade ndibuye, yintoni na loo nto kuwe? Wena ndilandele.” 23Laza eli lizwi landa phakathi kwabazalwana ukuba lo mfundi akayi kufa. Kodwa uYesu akazange athi kuye akayi kufa, wathi: “Ukuba ndifuna ukuba ahlale ade ndibuye, yintoni na loo nto kuwe?”
24Lo ngumfundi ongqina ezi zinto, nowazibhalayo; siyazi ukuba ubungqina bakhe buyinyaniso. 25Zikho nezinye izinto ezininzi awazenzayo uYesu. Ukuba nganye ibhaliwe, andiqondi ukuba ihlabathi ngokwalo belinokuzithwala iincwadi ebeziya kubhalwa. a a v25 Lo ngumzekeliso ozenziweyo wokubonakalisa ubukhulu bezinto uYesu awazenzayo—asiyomilinganiselo ngokoqobo.
