Yohana 14
1 Na ndu sron mbi tie meme na, bi kpa nyeme ni Rji, kpa nyeme ngame ni Me.
[Jesus continued by saying to us], “Stop being anxious/worried. Keep on trusting in God (OR, You are trusting in God); also keep trusting in me.
2 Ni ko ti mu ahe niko gbugbuwu ani na nakina, mi hla ni yiwu mi hi mla bubu'a tie ni yiwu.
Where my Father is [in heaven] there is plenty of room! If that were not true, I would have told you. I am about to go [there] to prepare a place for you.
3 Mi ta hi ni mla bubu'a tie ni yiowu, mi kma ye ni ye ngari ni ye vu yi hi ni kpa mu, ni ndu iwurji wa mi he'a bi ka he niki me.
And because I will go [there] and prepare a place for you, I will return and take you there to be with me. I will do that so that you may also be where I am.
4 Bi to gon uhi bubu wa me he'a.”
You know the road to the place where I am going.”
5 Toma hla ni Yesu, Bachi, kina to bubu wa u si hi'a na, kiti niheri ni to nkon'a?
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. [So] how can we know the road?”
6 Yesu hla niwu, Ime yi mi nkon ni njanji ni re (ivri), Indrjori na ya hi ni Timu'a na se ka hu ni me.
Jesus said to him, “I am the road [MET] [to where my Father is]. I am the [one who reveals] [MET] the truth [about God] and the [one who gives eternal] life [to people]. I am the only one who can [enable people] to come to [my] Father. There is no other way.
7 U na to me u na to Timu me, rjizizan hi u to ni shishi me ni to.”
If you [really] knew who I was, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and [it is as though] you have seen him.”
8 Filibu tre ni Yesu ndi, “Bachi tsro ta Iti'a, ni ndu tsra tawu naki.”
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us your Father and that will be enough for us!”
9 Yesu hla niwu, “Mi he ni yi rji lalon mu u bi na to me na Filibu? Indji wa a to me'a a to Iti'a. U tie ni he ri, ni hla ndi, mi tsro yi Iti'a?
Jesus said to him, “Philip, I have been with you for a long time. So (surely you should know who I [really am]!/why have you not come to know who I [really am]?) [RHQ] Those who have seen me, [it is as though] they have seen [my] Father. So (why do you say ‘Show us [your] Father’?/you should not say ‘Show us [your] Father’!) [RHQ]
10 U na kpa nyeme na ndi mi he ni Ti'a u Iti'a he ni me na? Ilan tre bi wa mi si tre ni yi'a mi na si tre ni gbengblen mu na, ahi Iti mu wa ahe ni mi mu'a si tie ndu yi.
Do you not [RHQ] believe that I have a close relationship with [my] Father, and that [my] Father has a close relationship with me? The messages that I tell you do not come from me. They come from my Father, who has a close relationship with me. He is enabling me to [teach these things, and] to perform the miracles that he [wants me to perform].
11 Kpa nyenme ndi mi he ni Ti'a, u Iti'a ahe ni me, ko u ka kpanyeme ni indu bimba me.
Believe that I have a close relationship with [my] Father and that [my] Father has a close relationship with me. If you do not believe that just because of what I say, believe it because of the miracles themselves [that I have done].
12 Njanji, njanji, Mi hla ni yiwu, indji wa a kpanyeme ni me ani tie ndu wa Mi tie'a na tie ndu bi rigrama zan bi yi niwa Mi si hi ni Ti Mu.
Listen to this carefully: [You] who trust in me will do the [kinds of] miracles [that I have done]. [Because of what I will do for you] (OR, [Because I will send God’s Spirit to you]) after I go to my Father, you will be able to do [miracles] that will be greater than [the ones I have done].
13 Ko ngyeri wa minye ni mi nde mu, mi ti niwu ni ndu Ti'a ndu kpa ninkon ni Vren'a.
And whatever you, using my authority, ask me to do, I will do it, in order that I can show [you] how great [my] Father is.
14 U wu ta minye me ko san ngyeri ni mi nde Mu, Mi tie wu.
Anything that you ask [my Father to do, anything that you ask] with my [authority] [MTY], I will do.”
15 U wu ta ni son me, wu hu indu mu,
“If you love me, you will do what I have commanded you.
Then I myself will request [my] Father, and he will send you someone else who will (encourage/be like a legal counsel for) you. (aiōn g165)
17 u Ibrji Tsatsra (Ruhu) u njanji gbungblu'a ana ya kpa na nitu wa a to na, iwu u to, ani son niwu ani he niwu.
[I am talking about] the Spirit, who [will teach you God’s] truth. He will be with you forever. Those who are opposed to God [MTY] cannot receive him, because they cannot understand what he [does], and they cannot know who he is. But you know who he is, because he is with you and he will be inside you.
18 Mi na ka yi don ni kankrji mbi na, Mi kma ye ni yi.
[When I leave you], I will not let you be alone/helpless [MET]. [When I send the Spirit, it will be like] I am coming back to you (OR, [When I rise from the dead], I will come back to you.)
19 A don tsa me yi, ni ndu gbungblu yi na la tie bre to mena, bi yi bi la to me don me mi he, biyi me bi son.
Soon those who do not belong to God [MTY] will not see me any more. But [when the Spirit comes to you, it will be as though] you will be seeing me again (OR, But [after I become alive again], you will see me again.) Because I will be alive again, you also will have [eternal] life.
20 Chachu ki bi to andi Mi he ni Timu, andi bi he ni me, u me mi he ni yi.
At that time you will know that I have a close relationship with my Father, and you will have a close relationship with me, and I will have a close relationship with you.
21 Indji wa a wo du mu, na hu ba ahi indji wa ani son me, u indji wa ani son me, Iti mu ni son'u ngame, u Me Mi son'u ni tsro tu mu niwu.”
Those who have accepted my commands and obey them are the people who love me. My Father will love those who love me. I also will love them, and I will fully reveal to them [what I am like].”
22 Yahuda (ana Iskariyoti na) a tre Yesu, “Bachi, ahi ngyeri sa u tsro ta tu me, ana ni gbungblu'a na?”
Then Judas spoke to him. He was not Judas Iscariot (OR, Judas, the man from Kerioth [Town]), [but instead a disciple whose other name was Thaddeus]. He said, “Lord, what has happened so that you can fully reveal to us what you are like, and not reveal that to those who do not belong to God [MTY]?”
23 Yesu sa na hla niwu, indji wa ani son me'a ani hu lantre mu. Iti mu ni son u ki ye niwu ni son baba me.
Jesus replied to him, “Those who love me will obey what I have told them. My Father will [also] love them. It is those people whom my Father and I will [be able to] come to and (live with/have a personal relationship with).
24 Indji wa ana son me na, ana hu tre mu na, itre wa bi wo bana rji-ni me na, ba rji ni Ti wa a ton me'a.
But those who do not love me will not obey what I have told them. [So I cannot reveal to them what I am really like]. These words that I am telling you have not come just from me. They came from [my] Father, the one who sent me.
25 Mi hla ikpi biyi ni yiwu ni wa Mi he ni gbungblu'a, niwa Mi he niyi.
I have told you all these things while I am still with you.
26 Se, u si sron ibrji tsatsra (Ruhu) wa Itimu ni ton ye ni mi nde Mu ani tsro yi ko ngyeri na tie ka ko ngyeri ni yiwu.
But [my] Father will send the Holy Spirit. He is the one who will (encourage/be like a legal counsel for) you. He will come with my authority [MTY]. He will teach you all of [God’s truth that you need to know]. He will also cause you to remember all the things that I have told you.
27 Mi bri yi ni si sron, ni no yi si sron, Mi na no nawa gbungblu'a ni no'a na, na kpa sron u bi tie meme na, nda na tie sissri na.
As I leave you, I am causing you to have [inner] peace. This [inner] peace comes from me. I am not causing you to have something that those who do not belong to God [MTY] can give you. [So] stop being anxious/worried, and do not be afraid.
28 Bi wo Mi hla ni yiwu, Mi hi kpa Mu, ndi Mi la kma ye niyiwu. Inde bi son Me, bi ka ngyiri don Mi hi ni Ti'a, Iti'a a zan na wa Mi he'a.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, but [later] I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going back to [my] Father, because [my] Father is greater than I am, [and there he will honor me and will send the Spirit to you].
29 Zizan Mi hla ni yiwu ri ni ndu ka ye he (ti) nda ana ye he (ti) u bi ka kpa nyeme.
I have told you [these things now] before they happen, so that when they happen you will believe [that what I said is true].
30 Mi na la tre babran ni yi na, Ichu wa ani nji gbungblu'a ani ye ana he ni gbengblen ni tu mu na.
I will not [be able to] talk to you much longer, because what happens to me will be as though [Satan], the ruler of this world, is coming [to attack me]. But he has no [control over what happens to] me.
31 Ni ndu gbungblu'a ndu ba to andi Mi son Ti'a, Mi ti na wa Iti'a a yo Me, ki lunde bri bubu yi.
Instead, the people who do not belong to God [MTY] must learn [from what happens to me] that I love [my] Father, and I am doing the things that he has commanded me to do. Now, let’s get up and leave here.”
