Ngokuya NgoJwanisi 20:1-31
20 Ngelanga lokuthoma leveke, uMariya Marhdalina waya ethuneni ekuseni+ kusesemnyama, wabona ilitje egade livale ithuna* lisusiwe.+
2 Yeke weza agijima waya kuSimoni Pitrosi nakomunye umfundi, loyo uJesu ebekamthanda,+ wathi kibo: “Bayithethe iKosi ethuneni,+ asazi ukuthi bayilalisephi.”
3 UPitrosi nomfundi loyo baphuma baya ethuneni.
4 Bobabili bathoma ukugijima kodwana umfundi loyo watjhiya uPitrosi ngebelo wafika qangi ethuneni.
5 Wahlola, wabona amatjhila welineni alapho+ kodwana akhenge angene.
6 Nje-ke kwafika noSimoni Pitrosi obekamlandela, wangena ngethuneni. Wabona amatjhila welineni alapho.
7 Itjhila ebelisehlokwakhe belingasi namanye amatjhila kodwana belisongiwe lisendawenalo lilodwa.
8 Umfundi loya owafika qangi ethuneni naye wangena, wabona begodu wakholwa.
9 Ngombana bebangakawuzwisisi umtlolo nawuthi kufuze avuke kwabafileko.+
10 Yeke abafundaba babuyela emizinabo.
11 UMariya wasolo ajame ngaphandle eduze nethuna, alila. Asalila njalo, wahlola ngethuneni,
12 wabona iingilozi ezimbili+ zimbethe okumhlophe zihlezi lapha isidumbu sakaJesu besilaliswe khona, enye ihlezi ngehlokweni enye ihlezi ngeenyaweni.
13 Zathi kuye: “Mfazi, ulilelani?” Wathi kizo: “Bathethe iKosami, angazi ukuthi bayilalisephi.”
14 Ngemva kokutjho lokhu, waphenduka wabona uJesu ajame lapho kodwana akhenge alemuke ukuthi nguJesu.+
15 UJesu wathi kuye: “Mfazi, ulilelani? Ufuna ubani?” UMariya acabanga ukuthi mtlhogomeli wesimu, wathi kuye: “Mnumzana, nangabe uyithethe, ngitjela ukuthi uyilalisephi, ngizakuya ngiyoyithatha.”
16 UJesu wathi kuye: “Mariya!” UMariya nakajikako, wathi kuye ngesiHebheru: “Raboni!” (okutjho ukuthi “Mfundisi!”)
17 UJesu wathi kuye: “Lisa ukungibamba ngombana angikakhuphukeli kuBaba. Kodwana khamba uye kubafowethu+ uthi kibo, ‘Ngikhuphukela kuBaba,+ uBabenu, kuZimami,+ uZimenu.’”
18 UMariya Marhdalina wayokutjela abafundi wathi: “Ngiyibonile iKosi!” Wabatjela lokho emtjele khona.+
19 Mhlokho ntambama, ngelanga lokuthoma leveke, iminyango beyilodlhelwe ngombana abafundi bebasaba amaJuda, uJesu wafika wajama phakathi kwabo wathi kibo: “Ukuthula akube nani.”+
20 Ngemva kokutjho njalo, wabatjengisa izandla zakhe nehlangothi lakhe.+ Abafundi bathaba nababona iKosi.+
21 UJesu godu wathi kibo: “Ukuthula akube nani.+ Njengombana uBaba angithumile+ nami ngiyanithuma.”+
22 Ngemva kokutjho lokhu wabavuthela ngomoya wathi kibo: “Yamukelani ummoya ocwengileko.+
23 Nangabe nilibalela izono zananyana ngubani zilitjalelwe, nangabe anizilibaleli izono zananyana ngubani, azikalitjalelwa.”
24 Kodwana uTomasi,+ omunye wabali-12 obekuthiwa liWele, bekangekho uJesu nakafikako.
25 Yeke abanye abafundi bebamtjela bathi: “Siyibonile iKosi!” Kodwana wathi kibo: “Ngaphandle kobana ngibone iimbobo zeempikiri ezandleni zayo, ngifake nomunwami eembotjeni zeempikiri, ngifake nesandla sami ehlangothini layo,+ angekhe ngikholwe.”
26 Ngemva kwamalanga abunane abafundi bakhe bebangendlini noTomasi bekanabo. UJesu weza wajama phakathi kwabo, ngitjho nanyana iminyango beyilodlhelwe, wathi: “Ukuthula akube nani.”+
27 Wathi kuTomasi: “Faka umunwakho la, ubone nezandla zami bese uthatha isandla sakho usifake ehlangothini lami, ulise ukuzaza* kodwana ukholwe.”
28 UTomasi wathi kuye: “Kosami, Zimami!”
29 UJesu wathi kuye: “Ngombana ungibonile, uyakholwa? Bayathaba abakholwa bangakaboni.”
30 Kuliqiniso ukuthi uJesu wenza nezinye iimbonakaliso ezinengi phambi kwabafundi, ezingakatlolwa emsongweni lo.+
31 Kodwana lezi zitlolwe phasi bona nikholwe ukuthi uJesu unguKrestu, iNdodana kaZimu begodu ngebanga lokukholwa nifumane ukuphila ngegama lakhe.+
