John 7
1 Hibang teng zawkciang in, Jesus sia Galilee huam sung ah pai hi: banghangziam cile Judah mite in that nuam ahikom Judah ngam sung ah pai ngawl hi.
After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the religious authorities (in Jerusalem) were eager to put him to death.
2 Tu in Judah te i biakbuk poai hong nai zo hi.
When the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
3 Tua ahikom a suapui te in Jesus kung ah, na vawt nasep te na nungzui te zong in a mu thei natu in, hi mun pan Judah ngam sung ah pai tan.
his brothers said to him, ‘Leave this part of the country, and go into Judea, so that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you are doing.
4 Banghangziam cile a kilang in ngual heak tu a dei te kuama in a thimtham in seam ngawl hi. Hibang te na vawt ahile leitung mite kung ah nangma le nangma ki pualak in, ci uh hi.
For no one does a thing privately, if they are seeking to be widely known. Since you do these things, you should show yourself publicly to the world.’
5 Banghangziam cile a suapui te in zong Ama a um bua uh hi.
For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 Tua zawkciang in Jesus in amate tung ah, Ka hun hong theng ngawl lai hi: ahihang note atu a tawntung in hunpha a hihi.
‘My time,’ answered Jesus, ‘is not come yet, but your time is always here.
7 Leitung in note hong ensan thei ngawl hi; ahihang kei hong ensan hi, banghangziam cile amate nasep pha ngawl hi, ci tetti ka pang hi.
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.
8 Hi poai ah pai tavun: kei hile ka hun cing ngawl lai ahikom pai ngawl lai tu khi hi, ci hi.
Go yourselves up to the Festival; I am not going to this Festival yet, because my time has not yet come.’
9 Hi thu te a son laitak in, Ama sia Galilee ah om nginge lai hi.
After telling them this, he stayed on in Galilee.
10 Ahihang a suapui te a pai zawkciang in, Jesus zong poai ah hongpai a, a kilang ngawl in pai ku hi.
But, when his brothers had gone up to the Festival, Jesus also went up – not publicly, but privately.
11 Tua zawkciang in poai mun ah Judah te in Ama zong uh a, koisung ah om ziam? ci uh hi.
The authorities were looking for him at the Festival and asking “Where is he?”;
12 Taciang mipi te sung ah Jesus thu taw kisai in phun teaptup uh hi: banghangziam cile mi pawlkhat te in, Ama sia mipha hi, ci uh a: a dang te in, hi ngawl hi; Ama in ngual theam hi, ci uh hi.
and there were many whispers about him among the people, some saying “He is a good man;” others, “No! He is leading the people astray.”
13 Ahihang Judah mite a lau uh hang in kuama in a kilang in a pau ngam bua uh hi.
No one, however, spoke freely about him, because they were afraid of the authorities.
14 Tu in poai a lang bang a man ciang Jesus sia biakinn sung ah pai a, thuhil hi.
About the middle of the Festival week, Jesus went up into the Temple Courts, and began teaching.
15 Judah mite in lamdangsa in, hi sia pa sia sin le sin ngei ngawl napi, bangbang in lai he thei ziam? ci uh hi.
The authorities were astonished. ‘How has this man got his learning,’ they asked, ‘when he has never studied?’
16 Jesus in, Kong hil thu sia keima a hi ngawl hi, ahihang keima hong sawlpa i hilna a hihi.
So, in reply, Jesus said, ‘My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.
17 Mihing khatpo in Pathian deina a seam tu ahile, ka hilna sia Pathian kung pan maw, a hibale keima thinsung suak hi zaw, ci he tu hi.
If anyone has the will to do God’s will, they will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.
18 Ama thinsung suak a hil peuma in ama minthanna tu zong hi: ahihang ama a sawlpa atu in minthanna a zong sia mipha a hihi, taciang ama sung ah thuman ngawl na om ngawl hi.
The person who speaks on their own authority seeks honour for themselves; but the one who seeks the honour of him who sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.
19 Moses in note thukham hong pia hi ngawl ziam? ahihang kuama in thukham na zui bua uh hi, Banghang in hong that nuam nu ziam? ci in zo hi.
Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?’
20 Mipi te in, doai vei ni hi: kua in hong that nuam na ziam? ci zo uh hi.
‘You must be possessed by a demon!’ the people exclaimed. ‘Who is seeking to put you to death?’
21 Jesus in amate tung ah, Nasep khat ka seam a, na vekpi in lamdang na sa uh hi.
‘There was one thing I did,’ replied Jesus, ‘at which you are all still wondering.
22 Tua ahikom Moses in vunteap at na thu hong pia hi; (hi sia in Moses hang hi ngawl in, pu le pa te hang a hihi; ) taciang note in sabbath ni in vunteap at nu hi.
But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you – not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors – and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.
23 Moses thukham paltan ngawl tu in khatpo in sabbath ni in vunteap ki at a hile, banghang in sabbath ni in mihing khat ka damsak hang in ka tung ah thin-uk nu ziam?
When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?
24 Maitang en in thukhen heak vun, ahihang a man thukhenna taw thukhen vun, ci hi.
Do not judge by appearances; judge justly.’
25 Tua zawkciang in Jerusalem pan mi pawlkhat te in, ngual i thatlum nuam in a zon uh sia hi sia pa hi ngawl ziam?
At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed, ‘Is not this the man who they are seeking to put to death?
26 Ahihang, en vun, hangsantak in thuhil a, amate in bangma ci thei ngawl hi. Ngam uk te in hisia pa sia Christ tatak hi, ci a he takpi uh ziam?
Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered that he is the Christ?
27 Ahihang hisia pa sia a kua ziam, ci i he bua hi: ahihang Christ hongpai ciang in, koisung pan hongpai, ci sia kuama in he ngawl hi, ci uh hi.
Yet we know where this man is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell where he is from.’
28 Jesus sia biakinn sung ah thu a hil kawm in au a, Note in hong he nu hi, taciang koisung pan hongpai, ci zong hong he nu hi: ahihang kei hong sawlpa sia thuman hi a, note in Ama sia na he bua uh hi.
Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said, ‘Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.
29 Ahihang keima in Ama ka he hi: banghangziam cile keima sia Ama kung pan ka hi a, Ama in hong sawl hi, ci hi.
I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his messenger.’
30 Tua zawkciang in amate in Jesus mat sawm uh hi: ahihang kuama in man ngam ngawl hi, banghangziam cile a hun cing ngawl lai hi.
So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.
31 Taciang mi tampi te in Ama um uh a, Christ hongpai ciang in, hi sia pa i vawt sang in a tamzaw nalamdang te vawt tu hi, ci uh hi.
Many of the people, however, believed in him. ‘When the Christ comes,’ they said, ‘will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?’
32 Pharisee te in Jesus thu taw kisai in mite a phun na thu za uh hi; taciang Pharisee te le thiampi lian te in Jesuh man tu in palik te paisak hi.
The Pharisees heard the people whispering about him in this way, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him;
33 Tua zawkciang in Jesus in amate tung ah, Tawmvei sung note taw kong omkhawm tu hi, taciang kei hong sawlpa kung ah pai tu khi hi.
at which Jesus said, ‘I will be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
34 Note in nong zong tu uh a, ahihang nong mu bua tu uh hi: ka omna mun ah note nong pai thei bua tu uh hi, ci hi.
You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I will be.’
35 Tua zawkciang in Judah te in amate sung ah, ei i mu ngawl tu in koisung pai tu ziam? Gentile mite sung ah a ki thethang te kung pai in, Gentile mite hil tu a hi tu ziam?
‘Where is this man going,’ the people asked one another, ‘that we would not find him? Will he go to our countrymen abroad, and teach foreigners?
36 Note in nong zong tu uh a, ahihang hong mu ngawl tu nu hi: ka omna mun ah note nong pai thei bua tu uh hi, a ci sia bang a cinopna hi tu ziam? ci tek uh hi.
What does he mean by saying “You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I will be”?’
37 Poai ni a khakbel, ni thupi ni in, Jesus hong ding a, Khatpo a dang a tak le, ka kung ah hongpai tahen a, dawn tahen.
On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed, ‘If anyone is thirsty, they should come to me and drink.
38 Keima hong um peuma laithiangtho in a ci bang in, a pumpi sung pan in a nungta nguntui luang tu hi, ci hi.
From the heart of those who believe in me will flow, as is said in scripture, rivers of living water.’
39 Ahihang hithu sia Jesus in Ama a um te in a san tu Thaa thu a sonna a hihi: banghangziam cile Jesus vang ki liansak ngawl lai ahikom in Tha Thiangtho ki pia ngawl hi.
(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)
40 Tua ahikom in mi tampi in hi thu a zak uh ciang in, hisia pa sia kamsang tatak hi, ci uh hi.
Some of the people, when they heard these words, said, ‘This is certainly the Prophet!’;
41 Midang te in, hisia Christ hi, ci uh hi. Ahihang pawlkhat te in, Galilee pan Christ hongpai tu ziam?
others said, ‘the Christ!’; but some asked, ‘What! Does the Christ come from Galilee?
42 Laithiangtho in, Christ sia David suan sung pan hongpai tu hi, taciang David omna Bethlehem khuapi pan hongpai tu hi, ci hi ngawl ziam? ci uh hi.
Is not it said in scripture that it is of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?’
43 Tua ahikom, Jesus hang in mite sung ah ki khenna hong om hi.
So there was a sharp division among the people because of Jesus.
44 Pawlkhat te in man nuam uh hi napi; ahihang kuama in khut a nga ngam bua uh hi.
Some of them wanted to arrest him, and yet no one touched him.
45 Tua zawkciang in, palik te thiampi lian le Pharisee te kung ah hongpai uh a; amate in, banghang in Jesus hong paipui ngawl nu ziam? ci uh hi.
When the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, ‘Why have you not brought him?’
46 Palik te in, hisia pa bang in kuama in thuhil ngei ngawl hi, ci in zo uh hi.
‘No one ever spoke as he speaks!’ they answered.
47 Tua zawkciang in Pharisee te in, note zong hong theam tha zo ziam?
‘What! Have you been led astray too?’ the Pharisees replied.
48 Ngam uk te le Pharisee te sung ah Ama a um om zo ziam?
‘Have any of our leading men believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?
49 Ahihang thukham a he ngwal hi mite sia hamsiat thuak te a hi uh hi, ci in zo uh hi.
As for these people who do not know the Law – they are cursed!’
50 Pharisee te sung pan mi khat a hi, zan lai in Jesus kung ah a pai Nicodemus in, amate tung ah,
But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them,
51 Ih thukham in mi khat sia a thu ngai masa ngawl in le a vawtna he masa ngawl in thukhen ziam? ci hi.
‘Does our Law pass judgment on a person without first giving them a hearing, and finding out what they have been doing?’
52 Amate in zo kik a, nangma zong Galilee mi ni ziam? kan in a, en in: banghangziam cile Galilee pan in kamsang piang ngawl hi, ci uh hi.
‘Are you also from Galilee?’ they retorted. ‘Search, and you will find that no prophet is to arise in Galilee!’
53 Taciang amate inn tek ah cia siat uh hi.
And everyone went home
