Yoane 10
1 Nazali koloba na bino penza ya solo: moto oyo akotaka na lopango ya bameme na nzela ya ekuke te, kasi amataka na likolo ya lopango, na esika mosusu, azali moyibi mpe mobomi.
In truth I tell you, whoever does not go into the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up at some other place, that person is a thief and a robber;
2 Kasi ye oyo akotelaka na ekuke azali mobateli bameme.
but the person who goes in through the door is shepherd to the sheep.
3 Mokengeli afungolelaka mobateli bameme ekuke, bameme eyokaka mongongo na ye. Mobateli abengaka bameme na ye na kombo na yango mpe abimisaka yango na libanda.
For him the watchman opens the door; and the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 Soki abimisi bameme na ye nyonso na libanda, alekaka liboso na yango; mpe bameme elandaka ye na sima, pamba te eyebi mongongo na ye.
When he has brought them all out, he walks in front of them, and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
5 Ekotikala ata mokolo moko te kolanda mopaya; kasi ekokima ye mosika, pamba te eyebi mongongo na ye te.
They will not follow a stranger, but will run away from him; because they do not know a stranger’s voice.’
6 Yesu ayebisaki bango lisese yango, kasi basosolaki te tina ya makambo oyo azalaki koyebisa bango.
This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not understand of what he was speaking.
7 Mpo na yango, Yesu alobaki na bango lisusu: — Nazali koloba na bino penza ya solo: Ngai nazali ekuke ya bameme.
So he continued, ‘In truth I tell you, I am the door for the sheep.
8 Bato nyonso oyo bayaki liboso na Ngai bazali miyibi mpe babomi; bameme eyokelaki bango te.
All who came before me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 Ngai nde nazali ekuke; moto nyonso oyo akokotela na nzela na Ngai akobika; akokota mpe akobima, mpe akozwa bilei.
I am the door; he who goes in through me will be safe, and he will go in and out and find pasture.
10 Moyibi ayaka kaka mpo na koyiba, koboma mpe kobebisa; kasi Ngai, nayei mpo ete bameme ezwa bomoi mpe ezwa yango na bofuluki penza.
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it in greater fullness.
11 Nazali mobateli malamu ya bameme. Mobateli malamu ya bameme apesaka bomoi na ye mpo na bameme na ye.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
12 Mosali oyo azali mobateli bibwele te, oyo azali nkolo bameme te, asalaka kaka mpo na lifuti. Soki kaka amoni mbwa ya zamba koya, asundolaka bameme mpe akimaka. Bongo mbwa ya zamba ekangaka bameme mpe epanzaka yango.
The hired man who is not a shepherd, and who does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, leaves them and runs away; then the wolf seizes them, and scatters the flock.
13 Mosali yango akimaka, pamba te asalaka kaka mpo na lifuti mpe atiaka makanisi na ye na bameme te.
He does this because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.
14 Ngai, nazali mobateli malamu ya bibwele; nayebi bameme na Ngai, mpe bameme na Ngai eyebi Ngai
I am the good shepherd; and I know my sheep, and my sheep know me –
15 —ndenge kaka Tata ayebi Ngai, mpe Ngai nayebi Tata— Nazali kokaba bomoi na Ngai mpo na bameme na Ngai.
Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 Nazali na bameme mosusu oyo ezali ya lopango oyo te. Nasengeli komema yango; ekoyoka mongongo na Ngai. Etonga ekozala kaka moko, mpe mobateli bibwele akozala kaka moko.
I have other sheep besides, which do not belong to this fold; I must lead them also, and they will listen to my voice; and they will become one flock under one shepherd.
17 Tata alingaka Ngai mpo ete nazali kokaba bomoi na Ngai; kasi nakozwa yango lisusu.
This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life – to receive it again.
18 Moto moko te azali kobotola Ngai bomoi yango, kasi Ngai moko nde nazali kokaba yango, na mokano na Ngai moko. Nazali na bokonzi ya kopesa mpe ya kozwa yango lisusu. Yango nde mitindo oyo Tata na Ngai apesaki Ngai.
No one took it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This is the command which I received from my Father.’
19 Bayuda bakabwanaki lisusu likolo ya maloba yango.
In consequence of these words a difference of opinion again arose among the people.
20 Mingi kati na bango bazalaki koloba: — Azali na molimo mabe! Azali na liboma! Mpo na nini bozali koyoka ye?
Many of them said, ‘He is possessed by a demon and is mad; why do you listen to him?’
21 Bamosusu bazalaki kozongisa: — Maloba wana ezali te ya moto oyo azali na se ya bokonzi ya molimo mabe! Boni, molimo mabe ekoki penza kofungola miso ya bakufi miso?
Others said, ‘This is not the teaching of one who is possessed by a demon. Can a demon give sight to the blind?’
22 Ekomaki tango ya kosepela feti ya Kobulisa Tempelo ya Yelusalemi. Feti yango esalemaki na tango ya malili makasi.
Soon after this the Festival of the Rededication was held at Jerusalem.
23 Yesu azalaki kotambola kati na lopango ya Tempelo, na veranda ya Salomo.
It was winter; and Jesus was walking in the Temple Courts, in the Colonnade of Solomon,
24 Bayuda bazingelaki Ye mpe batunaki Ye: — Kino tango nini okotika mitema na biso likolo-likolo? Soki ozali Klisto, yebisa biso yango polele!
when the people gathered round him, and said, ‘How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so frankly.’
25 Yesu azongiselaki bango: — Nayebisaki bino yango, kasi boboyi na bino kondima. Makamwisi oyo nazali kosala na Kombo ya Tata ezali kotatola na tina na Ngai;
‘I have told you so,’ replied Jesus, ‘and you do not believe me. The work that I am doing in my Father’s name bears testimony to me.
26 kasi bino, boboyi na bino kondima, pamba te bozali bameme na Ngai te.
But you do not believe me, because you are not of my flock.
27 Bameme na Ngai eyokaka mongongo na Ngai. Nayebi bameme na Ngai, mpe yango elandaka Ngai.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me;
29 Tata na Ngai, oyo apesaki Ngai bameme yango, aleki bato nyonso na monene, mpe moto moko te akoki kobotola yango na loboko ya Tata na Ngai.
What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else; and no one can snatch anything out of the Father’s hands.
30 Ngai mpe Tata tozali se moko.
The Father and I are one.’
31 Na bongo, Bayuda balokotaki lisusu mabanga mpo na koboma Ye,
Some of the people again brought stones to throw at him;
32 kasi Yesu alobaki na bango: — Nalakisi bino bikamwa mingi ya minene oyo esalemaki na nguya ya Tata; mpo na likamwisi nini bolingi koboma Ngai na mabanga?
and seeing this, Jesus said, ‘I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?’
33 Bayuda bazongiselaki Ye: — Ezali te mpo na likamwisi moko boye ya malamu nde tolingi koboma yo, kasi ezali mpo ete ozali kofinga Nzambe. Lisusu, ezali mpo ete, yo oyo ozali moto, ozali koloba ete ozali Nzambe.
‘It is not for any good action that we would stone you,’ they answered, ‘but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a man, make yourself out to be God.’
34 Yesu alobaki na bango: — Ekomama te kati na mibeko na bino: « Nalobi: ‹ Bozali banzambe? › »
‘Are there not,’ replied Jesus, ‘these words in your Law – “I said, You are gods”?
35 Nzokande, batiaka tembe na Makomi te. Boye, soki abengaki « banzambe, » bato oyo epai banani Liloba na Nzambe eyaki,
If those to whom God’s word were addressed were said to be “gods” – and scripture cannot be set aside –
36 mpo na nini koloba na tina na Ngai oyo Tata abulisa mpe atinda kati na mokili: « Ozali kofinga, » mpo nalobaki: « Nazali Mwana na Nzambe? »
do you say of one whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his messenger to the world “You are blaspheming,” because I said “I am God’s Son”?
37 Soki nasalaka te misala ya Tata na Ngai, wana bondima na bino Ngai te.
If I am not doing the work that my Father is doing, do not believe me;
38 Kasi soki nasalaka yango, ezala soki boboyi na bino kondima Ngai, bondima ata misala yango, mpo boyeba mpe bososola ete Tata azali kati na Ngai, mpe Ngai nazali kati na Tata.
if I am doing it, even though you do not believe me, believe what that work shows; so that you may understand, and understand more and more clearly, that the Father is in union with me, and I with the Father.’
39 Mpo na yango, balukaki lisusu kokanga Ye, kasi Yesu akimaki bango.
The authorities again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.
40 Akendeki lisusu na ngambo mosusu ya Yordani, kaka na esika oyo Yoane azalaki kobatisa bato, mpe atikalaki kuna.
Then Jesus again crossed the Jordan to the place where John used to baptize at first, and stayed there some time, during which many people came to see him.
41 Bato mingi penza bayaki epai na Ye; bazalaki koloba: « Yoane asalaki likamwisi ata moko te, kasi makambo nyonso oyo alobaki na tina na moto oyo ezali ya solo! »
‘John gave no sign of his mission,’ they said. ‘But everything that he said about this man was true.’
42 Mpe kuna, bato mingi bandimaki Yesu.
And many learned to believe in Jesus there.
