4. Bacebisana ukuba bambambe uJesu ngobuqili, bambulale.
5. Kepha bathi: “Makungabi ngomkhosi, funa kube khona isiyaluyalu esizweni.”
6. Kuthe uJesu eseBethaniya endlini kaSimoni owayenochoko,
7. kwafika kuye owesifazane ephethe umfuma we-alabaste* wamafutha anenani elikhulu, wawathela ekhanda lakhe ehlezi ekudleni.
8. Kepha abafundi bakhe bebona lokho bathukuthela, bathi: “Kwenzelwani lokho kuchitha na?
9. Ngokuba lokho nga kuthengisiwe ngokukhulu, kwaphiwa abampofu.”
10. Kepha uJesu ekwazi lokho wathi kubo: “Nimhluphelani owesifazane na? Ngokuba usebenzile umsebenzi omuhle kimi;
11. ngokuba abampofu ninabo njalo, kepha mina aninami njalo.
12. Ngokuba lapho ethela lawo mafutha emzimbeni wami, ukwenzele ukungilungisela ukumbelwa.
13. Ngiqinisile ngithi kini: Nomaphi lapho liyakushunyayelwa khona leli vangeli ezweni lonke, kuyakukhulunywa nangalokho akwenzileyo, kube yisikhumbuzo ngaye.”
14. Khona kwasuka omunye wabayishumi nambili othiwa uJuda Iskariyothe, waya kubapristi abakhulu,