3 Toe stuur ek boodskappers na hulle om te sê: Ek doen 'n groot werk, sodat ek nie kan afkom nie. Waarom moet die werk ophou sodra ek dit verlaat om na julle af te kom?

3 And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?