Mashi 19, 2023

First Samuel 16: 1, 6- 7, 10- 13

16:1	UJehova wathi kuSamuweli: “Kuyoze kube nini nimlilela uSawule, nakuba ngimalile, ukuze angabi yinkosi phezu kukaIsrayeli? Gcwalisa uphondo lwakho ngamafutha bese usondela, ukuze ngikuthume kuJese waseBetlehema. Ngoba ngizilungiselele inkosi phakathi kwamadodana akhe.”

16:6	Sebengenile, wabona u-Eliyabe, wathi, “Kungenzeka yini ukuthi unguKristu emehlweni eNkosi?”
16:7	UJehova wathi kuSamuweli: “Akufanele ubuke ubuso bakhe ngomusa, nokuphakama kwesiqu sakhe. Ngoba ngimalile. Nami angehluleli ngokubonakala komuntu. Ngoba umuntu ubona lezozinto ezisobala, kepha uJehova ubheka inhliziyo.”

16:10	Ngakho uJese waletha amadodana akhe ayisikhombisa phambi kukaSamuweli. USamuweli wasesithi kuJese, “INkosi ayikhethanga namunye walaba.”
16:11	USamuweli wasesithi kuJese, “Asengaphela yini amadodana?” Kodwa waphendula, “Kusasele omncane, waluse izimvu.” USamuweli wasesithi kuJese: “Thumela umlethe;. Ngoba ngeke sihlale ekudleni, aze afike lapha.”
16:12	Ngakho-ke, wathumela wamletha. Manje wayesebomvu, futhi muhle ukubukwa, nangobuso obukhazimulayo. Yathi iNkosi, “Sukuma, umgcobe! Ngoba nguye.”
16:13	Ngakho-ke, USamuweli wathatha uphondo lwamafutha, wamgcoba phakathi kwabafowabo. UMoya weNkosi waqhubeka emhola uDavide kusukela ngalolo suku nangasemva kwalokho. uSamuweli wasukuma, wahamba waya eRama.

Ephesians 5: 8- 14

5:8	For you were darkness, ezikhathini ezedlule, but now you are light, eNkosini. Ngakho-ke, walk as sons of the light.
5:9	For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth,
5:10	affirming what is well-pleasing to God.
5:11	Manje, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, kodwa esikhundleni salokho, refute them.
5:12	For the things that are done by them in secret are shameful, even to mention.
5:13	But all things that are disputed are made manifest by the light. For all that is made manifest is light.
5:14	Ngenxa yalokhu, kuthiwa: “You who are sleeping: awaken, and rise up from the dead, and so shall the Christ enlighten you.”

UJohane 9: 1- 41

9:1	Futhi uJesu, ngenkathi edlula, wabona indoda eyimpumputhe kwasekuzalweni kwayo.
9:2	Abafundi bakhe bambuza, “Rabi, owonayo, lendoda noma abazali bayo, ukuthi uzazalwa eyimpumputhe?”
9:3	UJesu wasabela: “Akonanga lomuntu noma abazali bakhe, kodwa ukuze kubonakaliswe kuye imisebenzi kaNkulunkulu.
9:4	ngimelwe ukusebenza imisebenzi yongithumileyo, kusesemini: ubusuku buyeza, lapho kungekho muntu okwazi ukusebenza.
9:5	Kunini ngisemhlabeni, mina ngiwukukhanya kwezwe.”
9:6	Esezishilo lezi zinto, wakhafulela phansi, wenza udaka ngamathe, wagcoba udaka emehlweni akhe.
9:7	Wathi kuye: “Hamba, geza echibini laseSilowama” (elihunyushwa ngokuthi: othunyiwe). Ngakho-ke, wahamba wayogeza, wabuya, ukubona.
9:8	Futhi kanjalo ababemi eduze nalabo ababeke bambona ngaphambili, ngenkathi eyisinxibi, kusho, “Akuyena yini lo obehlezi ecela?” Abanye bathi, “Nguye lo.”
9:9	Kodwa abanye bathi, “Akunjalo, kodwa uyafana naye.” Nokho ngempela, wathi yena, “Nginguye.”
9:10	Ngakho-ke, bathi kuye, “Avuleke kanjani amehlo?”
9:11	Waphendula: “Lowo muntu okuthiwa nguJesu wenza udaka, wagcoba amehlo ami, wathi kimi, ‘Hamba echibini laseSilowama ugeze.’ Ngahamba, ngase ngigeza, futhi ngiyabona."
9:12	Basebesithi kuye, "Ukuphi?" Uthe, "Angazi."
9:13	Bamletha kubaFarisi lowo obekade eyimpumputhe.
9:14	Manje kwakuyisabatha, lapho uJesu enza udaka evula amehlo akhe.
9:15	Ngakho-ke, abaFarisi basebembuza futhi ukuthi ubone njani. Wathi kubo, “Ubeke udaka emehlweni ami, ngase ngigeza, futhi ngiyabona."
9:16	Basho kanjalo abaFarisi abathile: “Lo muntu, ongagcini isabatha, akuveli kuNkulunkulu.” Kodwa abanye bathi, “Umuntu oyisoni angazenza kanjani lezi zibonakaliso?” Kwaba khona ukwahlukana phakathi kwabo.
9:17	Ngakho-ke, baphinde bakhulume nempumputhe, “Uthini ngaye owakuvula amehlo?” Wabe esethi, “UngumProfethi.”
9:18	Ngakho-ke, amaJuda awakholwanga, ngaye, ukuthi kade eyimpumputhe futhi ebonile, baze babiza abazali bakhe owayembonile.
9:19	Futhi bababuza, ethi: “Indodana yakho lena, enithi wazalwa eyimpumputhe? Pho uyabona kanjani manje?”
9:20	Abazali bakhe babaphendule bathi: “Siyazi ukuthi le yindodana yethu nokuthi yazalwa iyimpumputhe.
9:21	Kodwa manje uyabona kanjani, asazi. Futhi owavula amehlo akhe, asazi. Mbuze. Usekhule ngokwanele. Akazikhulumele.”
9:22	Abazali bakhe basho lezi zinto ngoba besaba amaJuda. Ngokuba amaJuda ayesebenze ugobe, ukuze kuthi uba umuntu evuma ukuthi unguKristu, wayezoxoshwa esinagogeni.
9:23	Kungalesi sizathu abazali bakhe bathi: “Usekhule ngokwanele. Mbuze.”
9:24	Ngakho-ke, baphinda bambiza umuntu obeyimpumputhe, bathi kuye: “Dumisani uNkulunkulu. Thina siyazi ukuthi lowomuntu uyisoni.”
9:25	Washo njalo kubo: “Uma eyisoni, Angazi. Yinye into engiyaziyo, ukuthi nakuba ngangiyimpumputhe, manje ngiyabona."
9:26	Base bethi kuye: “Wenzeni kuwe? Uwavule kanjani amehlo?”
9:27	Wabaphendula: “Sengikutshelile, futhi wezwa. Ufunelani ukuzwa futhi? Ingabe nawe ufuna ukuba abafundi bakhe?”
9:28	Ngakho-ke, bamthuke bathi: “Wena yiba ngumfundi wakhe. Kodwa thina singabafundi bakaMose.
9:29	Siyazi ukuthi uNkulunkulu wakhuluma noMose. Kodwa lendoda, asazi lapho avela khona.”
9:30	Yaphendula indoda yathi kubo: “Manje kuyamangaza lokhu: ukuthi anazi lapho avela khona, nokho uvule amehlo ami.
9:31	Futhi siyazi ukuthi uNkulunkulu akazizwa izoni. Kodwa uma umuntu engumkhulekeli kaNkulunkulu futhi enza intando yakhe, bese emlalela.
9:32	Kusukela kudala, akuzwakalanga ukuthi ukhona owavula amehlo ozelwe eyimpumputhe.
9:33	ngaphandle uma lo muntu ubengokaNkulunkulu, wayengeke akwazi ukwenza into enjalo.”
9:34	Basabela bathi kuye, “Nazalelwa ezonweni ngokuphelele, futhi ubungasifundisa?” Base bemkhiphela ngaphandle.
9:35	UJesu wezwa ukuthi bamkhiphile. Kwathi eseyitholile, wathi kuye, “Ingabe uyakholwa eNdodaneni kaNkulunkulu?”
9:36	Aphendule athi, "Ungubani, Nkosi, ukuze ngikholwe kuye?”
9:37	UJesu wathi kuye, “Nimbonile nobabili, futhi nguye okhuluma nawe.”
9:38	Wathi, "Ngiyakholwa, Nkosi.” Nokuwa ngobuso, wakhuleka kuye.
9:39	Futhi uJesu wathi, “Mina ngize kulo mhlaba ngokwahlulela, ukuze labo abangaboniyo, angabona; futhi ukuze labo ababonayo, angase abe yimpumputhe.”
9:40	NabaFarisi abathile, ababenaye, wezwa lokhu, bathi kuye, “Ngabe nathi siyizimpumputhe?”
9:41	uJesu wathi kubo: “Ukube ubuyizimpumputhe, ubungeke ube nesono. Nokho manje usho, ‘Siyabona.’ Ngakho isono sakho siyaphikelela.”