Mashi 14, 2024

The Book of Exodus 32: 7-14

32:7UJehova wakhuluma kuMose, ethi: “Hamba, ehle. Abantu bakho, owamkhipha ezweni laseGibithe, bonile.
32:8Sebehlehle masinyane endleleni owabembulela ngayo. Futhi baye bazenzela ithole elibunjiwe, futhi balikhonza. Futhi immolating izisulu kuwo, sebeshilo: ‘Laba onkulunkulu bakho, Israyeli, owanikhipha ezweni laseGibhithe.’ ”
32:9Futhi futhi, uJehova wathi kuMose: “Ngiyabona ukuthi laba bantu bantamo elukhuni.
32:10Ngikhulule, ukuze ulaka lwami lubavuthele, futhi ngingababhubhisa, khona-ke ngiyakukwenza isizwe esikhulu.
32:11UMose wayesekhuleka kuJehova uNkulunkulu wakhe, ethi: “Kungani, O Nkosi, ukufutheka kwakho kuthukuthelele abantu bakho, owamkhipha ezweni laseGibithe, ngamandla amakhulu langesandla esilamandla?
32:12Ngiyancenga, amaGibhithe kawatsho, ‘Wabahola ngobuhlakani, ukuze ababulalele ezintabeni futhi ababhubhise emhlabeni.’ Intukuthelo yakho mayithuliswe futhi idambiswe ngobubi babantu bakho..
32:13Khumbula u-Abrahama, Isaka, kanye no-Israyeli, izinceku zakho, owafunga kuye uqobo lwakho, ethi: ‘Ngiyakwandisa inzalo yakho njengezinkanyezi zezulu. Futhi wonke lo mhlaba, engikhulume ngayo, ngizayinika inzalo yakho. Futhi uyolidla kuze kube phakade.’”
32:14UJehova wakhululeka ekwenzeni okubi ayekukhulume ngabantu bakhe.

IVangeli Elingcwele NgokukaJohane 5: 31-47

5:31If I offer testimony about myself, my testimony is not true.
5:32There is another who offers testimony about me, and I know that the testimony which he offers about me is true.
5:33You sent to John, and he offered testimony to the truth.
5:34But I do not accept testimony from man. Kunalokho, I say these things, ukuze nisindiswe.
5:35He was a burning and shining light. So you were willing, at the time, to exult in his light.
5:36But I hold a greater testimony than that of John. For the works which the Father has given to me, so that I may complete them, these works themselves that I do, offer testimony about me: that the Father has sent me.
5:37And the Father who has sent me has himself offered testimony about me. And you have never heard his voice, nor have you beheld his appearance.
5:38And you do not have his word abiding in you. For the one whom he sent, the same you would not believe.
5:39Study the Scriptures. For you think that in them you have eternal life. And yet they also offer testimony about me.
5:40And you are not willing to come to me, so that you may have life.
5:41I do not accept glory from men.
5:42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
5:43I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not accept me. If another will arrive in his own name, him you will accept.
5:44How are you able to believe, you who accept glory from one another and yet do not seek the glory that is from God alone?
5:45Do not consider that I might accuse you with the Father. There is one who accuses you, UMose, in whom you hope.
5:46For if you were believing in Moses, perhaps you would believe in me also. For he wrote about me.
5:47But if you do not believe by his writings, how will you believe by my words?”