John 11
1 [One time] there was a man whose name was Lazarus who was [very] sick. He lived in Bethany [village], where his [older] sisters Mary and Martha also lived.
Jua ba bo ye Betani, k bi yigu Lasaar, li longbanli bo tie Maari yeni o ninsalo Mart dogu i.
2 Mary was the woman who [later] poured perfume on the feet of the Lord [Jesus], and then wiped his feet with her hair.
Lan Maari n bo jogi i tolaali Jesu ki gɔ tugi o yudi ki fiali jesu taana, o ninjua n bo yia k yi Lasaar.
3 So the two sisters sent [someone to tell] Jesus [about Lazarus], saying, “Lord, the one you love [very much] is very sick.”
O ninsiabi bo sɔni ki ban waani jesu k o dɔnli buado naa paa.
4 [They hoped that Jesus would come], but when Jesus heard the message, he said, “His being sick will not end in his dying. Instead, it will result in [people realizing] how great God is, and that I, God’s son, may be honored {that people may honor me, God’s son}, because of [what I will do].”
Jesu n gbadi li maami k o jiini: o yianu naa tie mi kuumi yaali ka, ama, ti Diedo diema nni, ki fidi, k o nul bijua n la ti yudandi.
5 Jesus loved Martha and her [younger] sister [Mary] and Lazarus.
Yeni lan ya kuli, Jesu bo buadi Marti yeni o ninsalo yeni Lasaar.
6 But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed [where he was] for two more days.
Ya yognu k o gbadi ki Lasaar gbanu ki dagdi, o gɔ da bo ki luo ki tieni daana lie naani k o bo ye yeni.
7 But Jesus [wanted to see Lazarus]. So he said to us disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
Yeni k o maadi o yegnkaabi, tin lebdi mani Jude.
8 We said, “Teacher, just a short while ago the Jewish [leaders] [SYN] wanted to [kill you by] throwing stones at you. So ([we think that you should not] go back there again!/[are you sure that you want to] go back there again?) [RHQ]”
K o yegnkaabi maadi o: canba, mɔlane k sufi nba bo kpaani ban ja ŋa a tana, k a gɔ yedi k tin lebdi Jude i!
9 [To show us that nothing bad could happen to him until the time that God had chosen] [MET], Jesus replied, “There are [RHQ] twelve hours in the daytime, [which is enough time to do what God wants us to do]. People who walk in the daytime will not stumble [over things they cannot see], because they see things by the light from the sun.
Ki Jesu ŋmiani: t ki pia piiga n kudi lie ka yienu nni i? nul ya cuoni yienu, k o maadi bonli ki dugni o nua ŋanduna ne yinyiemi.
10 It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
Ama, nul ya cuoni bonbonli nni, o maadi ki dugni o ki yegi yeni yinyiemi ba kuli.
11 After he said that, he told us, “Our friend Lazarus has gone to sleep. But I will go there so that I can wake him up.”
Wan pua bi li maakpanjami ki gbeni, k o maadi: Lasaar, ti dɔnli, guandi, ama n ba find o.
12 So we said to him, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well. [So you do not need to risk your life by going there].”
K o yegnkaabi maadi o: yonbidaan, o ya guandi, o bi paagi.
13 Jesus was speaking [figuratively] about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
Jesu bo bua yedi ba k o kpe i, ama k ban maal k o maadi guamɔnbi.
14 So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
Yeni ki Jesu maadi a sala siigni: Lasaar kpe o.
15 But for your sake I am glad that I was not there [when he died], because I want you to believe [more firmly that I] ([am the Messiah/came from God]). So now, [instead of staying here], let’s go to him.”
I ya po, k fidi k yin tuo yeni i mɔni, li tie n po pamanli yeni min bo ki ye. Ama tin gedi mani o den po.
16 Then Thomas, who was {whom they} called ‘The Twin’, said to the rest of us disciples, “Let’s all go, so that we may die with Jesus [when his enemies kill him].”
Be ya po i k Toma, yua bo tami k yesu yiedi bo maadi o liebi, tin ŋɔdi mani ki mɔ kpe yeno.
17 When we arrived [close to Bethany], someone told Jesus that Lazarus [had died and had been buried and his body had] been in the tomb for four days.
Jesu den pundi ki sua ki Lasaar kpe o ki bedi hali dana naa.
18 Bethany is less than (two miles/three kilometers) from Jerusalem.
Nani Betani n bo ki fagi yeni Serusalemi yeni,
19 Many Jews had come [from Jerusalem] to console Martha and Mary over [the death of] their [younger] brother.
Sufi nba boncianli bo gadi ki bua tieni Marti yeni Mari i kuufuondi.
20 When Martha heard [someone say] that Jesus was coming, she went [along the road] to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
Lan ya yognu ki Marti gbadi ki jesu pundi, k o hedi o liigi bo, l bo sua ki Mari kaa o bulñɔbu nni
21 When Martha [got to where Jesus was], she said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died [because you would have healed him]!
Marti maadi Jesu: yonbidaan a ya bo ye ne, n ninjua bo kan kpe.
22 But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask [concerning my brother].”
Ama, yeni lan ya kuli, n bani k a ya buali yaali ti Diedo, ti Diedo ba teni a.
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will become alive again!”
Jesu ŋmiani o: a ninjua bu yiedi.
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will become alive again when all people become alive again on the [Judgment] day.”
N bani, Marti ŋmianio, o bu yiedi li daajijuogi daali.
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the one who [enables people to] become alive again and who [causes people to] live [eternally]. Those who believe in me, even if they die, will live [again].
Jesu maadi: min tie o yiedo, ki tie li miali. Yua pia li dandanli ki duu n po bu la li miali, ba o ya kpe;
26 Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, [their souls] will not die [forever]. Do you believe that?” (aiōn g165)
yua fuo ki dug n po, kan bangi ki kpe. A dug li po i? (aiōn g165)
27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord! I believe that you are the Messiah, (the Son of God/the man who is also God). You are the one [God promised to send] into the world!”
Ke o maadi o: Nn, yonbidaano, n bani ke a tie Kiristo, U Tienu bijua, yua ba cua li ŋandunli nni.
28 After she said that, she returned [to the house] and took her [younger] sister, Mary, aside and said to her, “The Teacher is close [to our village], and he wants to talk to you.”
Wan yedi lani, ke o siedi ki gedi ki ban yini o ninsalo Maari suoo. Ki yedi o, “Canbáa cua, ki yi a.”
29 When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
Wan gbadi lani, ke o kudi ki fii, ki gedi o kani.
30 Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.
Li yognu, ke Jesu da ki pundi u dogu nni, ki da li ye Marta ń tuogi o naankani yeni.
31 The Jews who were in the house with Mary, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go outside. So they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb [where they had buried Lazarus], in order to cry there.
Juufinba yaaba n bi ye yeni o li dieli nni, ki baagi o yeni ń la ke o kudi ki fii, ki ñani yeni, ke bi ŋɔdi o, ki maali ke o caa li kakuli kani ki baa buudi i.
32 When Mary got to where Jesus was and saw him, she prostrated herself at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my [younger] brother would not have died!”
Maari ń cua Jesu ń ye naani, ki la o, ke o baa ki gbaani o taana po, ki yedi o, “O Diedo, a ya bi ye ne i, n ninjua bi kan kpe.”
33 When Jesus saw her crying, and saw that the Jews who had come with her were also crying, he was very angry [that Satan had caused Lazarus to die] (OR, very troubled) and disturbed in his spirit.
Jesu ń la ke Maari buudi ke juufinba mo buudi, ke mi maalma kua o, ke o yama ŋmadi;
34 He said, “Where have you buried (him/his body)?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
Ke o maadi, “I piini o le i?, ke bi maadi o, “O Diedo, cua na ki diidi.”
35 Jesus began to cry.
Jesu bo buudi.
36 Then [some of] the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”
Ke juufinba yedi, “Diidi mani wan den bua Lasaari maama!”
37 But some others said, “He enabled a blind man to see. So (he should have been able to [heal this man so that] he did not die!/why did he not [heal this man so that] he did not die?) [RHQ]”
Ama ke nitianba maadi, “Ya nilo n luodi yua n mali juamo yeni, bi kan fidi ki cedi o nilo ń da kpe ee?”
38 Within himself Jesus was again very angry [about Lazarus dying] (OR, very troubled). He came to the tomb. It was a cave. The entrance had been covered with a large stone.
Ke li bonli kua Jesu, ke o gbanu dá li ŋɔa, ke o gedi li kuli kani. Li den tie tanfalu i, ke ku tangu bii bu bulñɔbu.
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone!” Martha, [who, as I mentioned before, was an older] sister of the man who had died, said, “Lord, his [body] has been [in the tomb] for four days, so now there will be a bad smell!”
Ke Marta, o kpiemo ninsalo yedi Jesu, O Diedo, ya yognu ne o nuugi o, tin pii o, dana na n yeni.
40 Jesus said to her, “I told [RHQ] you that if you believed [in] ([me/what I can do]), you would see how great God is! Have [you forgotten that]?”
Ke Jesu yedi o, “N ki yedi a ke a ya dugi n po, a ba la U Tienu kpiagdi ii?”
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up [toward heaven] and said, “My Father, I thank you that you heard me [when I prayed about this earlier].
Ke bi biidi ku tangu, Ke Jesu yaadi ki diidi poli, ki yedi, “N Báa, N tiendi a balga yeni ŋan cengi n maama.
42 I know that you always hear me [when I pray]. But instead [of just praying silently], I said that for the sake of the people who are standing here. I want them to believe that you sent me.”
N bani ke a li cengi n maama yogu kuli, ama, li tie ku niwulgu yugu n taani ki lindi nni ne penio i ke n maadi yeni, ke ban la ki dugi ke fini n sɔni nni.”
43 After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
Wan yedi lani, ke o tandi ki maadi, “Lasaari, Fii ki ña na!”
44 The man who [had been] dead came out! The strips of cloth were still wrapped around his [hands and feet], and a cloth was still around his face, [but he came out]! Jesus said to them, “Take off the cloths so that he can walk easily!” [So they did that].
Ke o kpiemo fii, ki ñani; ke o nui yeni o taana fiini a caba, ke li cabli bobni o nunga. Ke Jesu yedi ba, “findi findi mani o, ki ŋa wan ya caa.”
45 As a result, many of the Jews who had come to [see] Mary and who had seen what Jesus did, believed that he ([was the Messiah/had come from God]).
Lani ke juufinba boncianli yaaba n bo cua Maari kani, ki la Jesu ń bo tieni yaali, ji bo dugi o po.
46 But some of the [others] went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
Ama, nitianba guani ki lebdi farisienba kani, ki togdi ba Jesu ń tieni yaali.
47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered all the members of the [Jewish] Council together. They started saying [to each other], “What are we going to do [about Jesus]? He is performing many miracles!
Lanyapo i ke salga yidkaaba yudanba yeni farisienba taani yikodanba tantaanli, ki yedi, “Ti ba tieni ledi i? O nilo ne tiendi yaalidgu bona boncianla
48 If we allow him to keep [doing this], everyone will believe (in him/that he [is the Messiah]), [and they will make him their king]. Then the Roman [army] will come and destroy our Temple and our whole nation of Israel!”
Ti ya ŋa o yeni, ke o tie wan bua yaali, bi niba kuli baa dugi o po i; Roma yaaba ba cua ki fie ti tinfanma yeni ti dogtieba i.”
49 One of the [Jewish Council] members was Caiaphas. He was the Jewish high priest that year. [Hinting that they should get rid of Jesus], he said to them, “You [talk as though you] do not know anything [HYP]!
Ama, ke nilo ye bi siiga ki yi Kayifa, ki tie lanyognu salga yidkaaba yudaano, yedi ba, “Yi ki bani libakuli.
50 You do not realize that it would be much better for us if one man died for the sake of the people rather than that [the Romans kill] all the [people of our Jewish] nation.”
I ki bani ke niyendo ya kpe bi dogtieba kuli po, li baa tu yeni ban buoni u dogu kui ii.
51 He said that, not because he thought of it himself. Instead, since he was the high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the whole [Jewish] nation.
Ama, wani obá ka bo maadi li maama. Wan den tie salga yidkaaba yudaano yeni, bi den pua o sawali ke Jesu ba kpe ki fie bi niba miali.
52 But he was also prophesying that Jesus would die, not just for the Jews, but for all the people living in other lands who [would belong] to God, in order that he would unite [all of them into] one [group].
Li ki tie bi dogtieba baba po ka, ama, o kuuma ba cedi U Tienu bila yaaba n yayadi ŋanduna nni yeni ń guani ki taani kaanyendu.
53 So from that day the [Jewish leaders] started to make plans how they could kill Jesus.
Lanwani ii, li daali ligi i, ke bi cili ki bobindi ban ba tieni maama, ki kpa Jesu.
54 Because of that, Jesus no longer traveled around publicly among the Jewish people. Instead, he left [Jerusalem, along] with us disciples, and went to a village called Ephraim, in an area near the desolate region. We stayed there [for a while].
Lanyapo i ke Jesu ji den ki wangi o yuli jufinba nitaanli nni, ama, o den fuadi ki gedi ku tinpiengu po, ya dogu nni ke bi yi Efrayimi. O ji den ye lanpo i, yeni o ŋɔdkaaba.
55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover [celebration], many [Jews] went up to Jerusalem from other places in the country. They went there to perform the rituals to make themselves acceptable [to God] before the Passover [celebration started].
Juufinba pendima jaanma ji den nagdi, ki juufinba boncianla den ña dogtiani, ki do ki caa Jerusalema, ki ba ŋuudi ki ŋanbi bi yula.
56 The Jewish chief priests and Pharisees issued an order that if anyone found out where Jesus was, that person should report it to them, in order that they could seize him. [So the people thought that Jesus would] probably [not dare to come to the celebration]. But they kept looking for him, and as they were standing in the Temple [courtyard] they were saying to each other, “What do you think? He will not come to the celebration, will he?”
Bi den nua Jesu, ki maadi bi ŋmiali nni, ban den ye ku jaandiegu nni ya yognu, “I maalma tie be i? Ke o kan cua mi jaanma?”
Ke salga yidkaaba yudanba yeni Farisienba teni bu ñɔbu, ke nilo ya la Jesu naani, wan tuali ba, ban cuo o.
