John 5
1 After this, there was a Jewish festival so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
Baada ya haya, kulikuwa na Sikukuu ya Wayahudi, naye Yesu akapanda kwenda Yerusalemu.
2 Now near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethzatha in Hebrew, with five porches beside it.
Huko Yerusalemu, karibu na mlango uitwao Mlango wa Kondoo, palikuwa na bwawa moja lililoitwa kwa Kiebrania Bethzatha, ambalo lilikuwa limezungukwa na kumbi tano.
3 Crowds of sick people were lying in these porches—those who were blind, lame, or paralyzed.
Hapa palikuwa na idadi kubwa ya wasiojiweza, yaani, vipofu, viwete, na waliopooza [wakingojea maji yatibuliwe.
Kwa maana malaika alikuwa akishuka wakati fulani, akayatibua maji. Yule aliyekuwa wa kwanza kuingia ndani baada ya maji kutibuliwa alipona ugonjwa wowote aliokuwa nao].
5 One man who was there had been sick for thirty-eight years. Jesus looked at him, knowing he had been lying there for long time, and asked him,
Mtu mmoja alikuwako huko ambaye alikuwa ameugua kwa miaka thelathini na minane.
6 “Do you want to be healed?”
Yesu alipomwona akiwa amelala hapo, naye akijua kuwa amekuwa hapo kwa muda mrefu, akamwambia, “Je, wataka kuponywa?”
7 “Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don't have anyone to help me get into the pool when the water is stirred. While I'm trying to get there, someone always gets in before me.”
Yule mgonjwa akamjibu, “Bwana, mimi sina mtu wa kuniingiza bwawani maji yanapotibuliwa. Nami ninapotaka kutumbukia bwawani, mtu mwingine huingia kabla yangu.”
8 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and start walking!” Jesus told him.
Yesu akamwambia, “Inuka! Chukua mkeka wako na uende.”
9 Immediately the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking. Now the day that this happened was the Sabbath.
Mara yule mtu akapona, akachukua mkeka wake, akaanza kutembea. Basi siku hiyo ilikuwa siku ya Sabato.
10 So the Jews said to the man who'd been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It's against the law to carry a mat!”
Kwa hiyo Wayahudi wakamwambia yule mtu aliyeponywa, “Leo ni Sabato, si halali wewe kubeba mkeka wako.”
11 “The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and start walking,” he replied.
Yeye akawajibu, “Yule mtu aliyeniponya aliniambia, ‘Chukua mkeka wako na uende.’”
12 “Who's this person who told you to carry your mat and walk?” they asked.
Wakamuuliza, “Ni mtu gani huyo aliyekuambia uchukue mkeka wako uende?”
13 However, the man who'd been healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the surrounding crowd.
Basi yule mtu aliyeponywa hakufahamu ni nani aliyemponya, kwa sababu Yesu alikuwa amejiondoa katika ule umati wa watu uliokuwa hapo.
14 Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and told him, “Look, now you've been healed. So stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
Baadaye Yesu akamkuta yule mtu aliyemponya ndani ya Hekalu na kumwambia, “Tazama umeponywa, usitende dhambi tena. La sivyo, lisije likakupata jambo baya zaidi.”
15 The man went and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.
Yule mtu akaenda, akawaambia wale Wayahudi kuwa ni Yesu aliyemponya.
16 So the Jews started to harass Jesus because he was doing things on the Sabbath.
Kwa hiyo Wayahudi wakaanza kumsumbua Yesu, kwa sababu alikuwa anafanya mambo kama hayo siku ya Sabato.
17 But Jesus told them, “My Father is still working, and so am I.”
Yesu akawajibu, “Baba yangu anafanya kazi yake daima hata siku hii ya leo, nami pia ninafanya kazi.”
18 This was why the Jews tried even harder to kill him, for not only did he break the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.
Maneno haya yaliwaudhi sana viongozi wa Wayahudi. Wakajaribu kila njia wapate jinsi ya kumuua, kwani si kwamba alivunja Sabato tu, bali alikuwa akimwita Mungu Baba yake, hivyo kujifanya sawa na Mungu.
19 Jesus explained to them, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can only do what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does the Son does as well.
Yesu akawaambia, “Amin, amin nawaambia, Mwana hawezi kufanya jambo lolote peke yake, yeye aweza tu kufanya lile analomwona Baba yake akifanya, kwa maana lolote afanyalo Baba, Mwana pia hufanya vivyo hivyo.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and reveals to him everything he does; and the Father will show to him even more incredible things that will completely amaze you.
Baba ampenda Mwana na kumwonyesha yale ambayo yeye Baba mwenyewe anayafanya, naye atamwonyesha kazi kuu kuliko hizi ili mpate kushangaa.
21 For just as the Father gives life to those he resurrects from the dead, in the same way the Son also gives life to those that he wants.
Hakika kama vile Baba awafufuavyo wafu na kuwapa uzima, vivyo hivyo Mwana huwapa uzima wale anaopenda.
22 The Father judges no one. He has given to the Son all the authority to judge,
Wala Baba hamhukumu mtu yeyote, lakini hukumu yote amempa Mwana,
23 so that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
ili wote wamheshimu Mwana kama vile wanavyomheshimu Baba. Yeyote asiyemheshimu Mwana, hamheshimu Baba aliyemtuma.
24 I tell you the truth: those who follow what I say and trust the one who sent me have eternal life. They won't be condemned, but have gone from death to life. (aiōnios g166)
“Amin, amin nawaambia, yeyote anayesikia maneno yangu na kumwamini yeye aliyenituma, anao uzima wa milele, naye hatahukumiwa, bali amepita kutoka mautini, na kuingia uzimani. (aiōnios g166)
25 I tell you the truth: The time is coming—in fact it's here already—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live!
Amin, amin nawaambia, saa yaja, nayo saa ipo, wafu watakapoisikia sauti ya Mwana wa Mungu, nao watakaoisikia watakuwa hai.
26 Just as the Father has life-giving power in himself, so has he given the Son the same life-giving power in himself.
Kama vile Baba alivyo na uzima ndani yake, vivyo hivyo amempa Mwana kuwa na uzima ndani yake.
27 The Father also granted the authority for judgment to him, for he is the Son of man.
Naye amempa Mwanawe mamlaka ya kuhukumu kwa kuwa yeye ni Mwana wa Adamu.
28 Don't be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all those in the grave will hear his voice
“Msishangae kusikia haya, kwa maana saa inakuja ambapo wale walio makaburini wataisikia sauti yake.
29 and will rise again: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation.
Nao watatoka nje, wale waliotenda mema watafufuka wapate uzima na wale waliotenda maovu, watafufuka wahukumiwe.
30 I can do nothing by myself. I judge based on what I'm told, and my decision is right, for I'm not doing my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
“Mimi siwezi kufanya jambo lolote peke yangu. Ninavyosikia ndivyo ninavyohukumu, nayo hukumu yangu ni ya haki kwa kuwa sitafuti kufanya mapenzi yangu mwenyewe, bali mapenzi yake yeye aliyenituma.
31 If I were to make claims about myself, such claims wouldn't be valid;
“Kama ningejishuhudia mimi mwenyewe, ushuhuda wangu si kweli.
32 but someone else gives evidence about me, and I know what he says about me is true.
Lakini yuko mwingine anishuhudiaye na ninajua kwamba ushuhuda wake ni wa kweli.
33 You asked John about me, and he told the truth,
“Mlituma wajumbe kwa Yohana, naye akashuhudia juu ya kweli.
34 but I don't need any human endorsement. I'm explaining this to you so you can be saved.
Si kwamba naukubali ushuhuda wa mwanadamu, la, bali ninalitaja hili kusudi ninyi mpate kuokolewa.
35 John was like a brightly-burning light, and you were willing to enjoy his light for a while.
Yohana alikuwa taa iliyowaka na kutoa nuru, nanyi kwa muda mlichagua kuifurahia nuru yake.
36 But the evidence I'm giving is greater than John's. For I am doing the work that the Father gave me to do,
“Lakini ninao ushuhuda mkuu zaidi kuliko wa Yohana. Kazi zile nizifanyazo, zinashuhudia juu yangu, zile ambazo Baba amenituma nizikamilishe, naam, ishara hizi ninazofanya, zinashuhudia kuwa Baba ndiye alinituma.
37 and this is the proof that the Father sent me. The Father who sent me, he himself speaks on my behalf. You've never heard his voice, and you've never seen what he looks like,
Naye Baba mwenyewe ameshuhudia juu yangu. Hamjapata kamwe kuisikia sauti yake wala kuona umbo lake,
38 and you don't accept what he says, because you don't trust in the one he sent.
wala hamna neno lake ndani yenu, kwa sababu hamkumwamini yeye aliyetumwa naye.
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that through them you'll gain eternal life. But the evidence they give is in support of me! (aiōnios g166)
Ninyi mnachunguza Maandiko mkidhani ya kuwa ndani yake mna uzima wa milele, maandiko haya ndiyo yanayonishuhudia Mimi. (aiōnios g166)
40 And yet you don't want to come to me so that you might live.
Lakini mnakataa kuja kwangu ili mpate uzima.
41 I'm not looking for human approval
“Mimi sitafuti kutukuzwa na wanadamu.
42 —I know you, and that you don't have God's love in you.
Lakini ninajua kwamba hamna upendo wa Mungu mioyoni mwenu.
43 For I've come to represent my Father, and you won't accept me; but if someone comes representing themselves, then you accept them!
Mimi nimekuja kwa jina la Baba yangu, nanyi hamnipokei, lakini mtu mwingine akija kwa jina lake mwenyewe, mtampokea.
44 How can you trust in me when you look for praise from one another and yet you don't look for praise from the one true God?
Ninyi mwawezaje kuamini ikiwa mnapeana utukufu ninyi kwa ninyi, lakini hamna bidii kupata utukufu utokao kwa Mungu?
45 But don't think I will be making accusations about you to the Father. It's Moses who is accusing you, the one in whom you place such confidence.
“Lakini msidhani kuwa mimi nitawashtaki mbele za Baba, mshtaki wenu ni Mose, ambaye mmemwekea tumaini lenu.
46 For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me.
Kama mngelimwamini Mose, mngeliniamini na mimi kwa maana aliandika habari zangu.
47 But since you don't trust what he said, why would you trust what I say?”
Lakini ikiwa hamwamini aliyoandika Mose, mtaaminije ninayoyasema?”
