Yokaana 7
1 Oluvannyuma lw’ebyo, Yesu n’alaga e Ggaliraaya, kubanga teyayagala kubeera mu Buyudaaya, kubanga Abayudaaya baali bamunoonya okumutta.
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Naye embaga y’Abayudaaya eyitibwa ey’Ensiisira yali eneetera okutuuka.
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
3 Baganda ba Yesu ne bamugamba nti, “Vva wano, olage mu Buyudaaya, abayigirizwa bo balabe ebyamagero by’okola.
His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
4 Tosobola kwatiikirira nga weekwese. Kale obanga, okola ebintu ebyo, weerage eri ensi.”
For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
5 Baganda be nabo tebaamukkiriza.
For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 Yesu n’abaddamu nti, “Ekiseera kyange eky’okugenda tekinnatuuka. Naye mmwe muyinza okugenda mu kiseera kyonna we mwagalira.
Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 Mmwe ensi teyinza kubakyawa, naye Nze enkyawa kubanga ngitegeeza ebikolwa byayo ebibi.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
8 Mmwe mwambuke ku mbaga. Nze sijja kwambuka ku mbaga eno, kubanga ekiseera kyange tekinnatuuka.”
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
9 Bwe yamala okubagamba ebyo n’asigala mu Ggaliraaya.
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
10 Baganda be bwe bamala okwambuka ku mbaga naye n’ayambuka, mu kyama so si mu lwatu.
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
11 Awo Abayudaaya ne bamunoonya ku mbaga nga beebuuza nti, “Omusajja oli, ali ludda wa?”
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
12 Ne wabaawo oluvuuvuumo lungi mu bantu. Abamu ne bagamba nti, “Mulungi.” Naye abalala nga bagamba nti, “Nedda, alimba abantu.”
There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”
13 Kyokka olw’okutya Abayudaaya, tewaaliwo amwogerako mu lwatu.
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14 Awo mu makkati g’embaga Yesu n’ayambuka mu Yeekaalu n’ayigiriza.
But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
15 Abakulembeze b’Abayudaaya ne beewuunya nga bagamba nti, “Omuntu ono ayinza atya okumanya okusoma so nga tasomangako?”
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
16 Awo Yesu kwe kubaddamu nti, “Nze sibayigiriza byange ku bwange, wabula eby’oyo eyantuma.
Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
17 Buli ayagala okukola Katonda by’ayagala, ategeera obanga bye njigiriza byange ku bwange oba bya Katonda.
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
18 Ayogera ku bubwe anoonya kitiibwa kye, naye oyo anoonya ekitiibwa ky’oyo eyantuma wa mazima so n’obutali butuukirivu tebuba mu ye. Musa teyabawa amateeka?
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
19 Ku mmwe tekuliiko n’omu akwata mateeka. Kale lwaki musala amagezi okunzita?”
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
20 Ekibiina ky’abantu ne baddamu nti, “Oliko dayimooni! Ani asala amagezi okukutta?”
The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
21 Yesu n’addamu nti, “Nakola ekikolwa kimu ku Ssabbiiti buli muntu ne yeewuunya.
Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.
22 Musa kyeyava abalagira okukomolebwa, okukomolebwa tekwatandikira ku Musa wabula kwatandikira ku bajjajjammwe; ne ku Ssabbiiti mukomola omuntu.
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
23 Obanga mukomola ku Ssabbiiti etteeka lya Musa lireme okumenyebwa, kale lwaki Nze munsunguwalira olw’okuwonya omuntu ku Ssabbiiti, n’aba mulamu ddala?
If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
24 Temusalanga musango okusinziira ku ndabika, naye musalenga omusango ogw’ensonga.”
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
25 Awo abantu abamu ab’omu Yerusaalemi ne beebuuzaganya nga bagamba nti, “Ono si ye muntu gwe banoonya okutta?
Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
26 Kale wuuno ayigiriza lwatu, ate tebaliiko kye bamugambako. Osanga abakulembeze bategedde nti omuntu ono ye Kristo!
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
27 Naye tumanyi omuntu ono gy’ava; so nga Kristo bw’alijja tewaliba n’omu amanya gy’ava.”
However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
28 Awo Yesu bwe yali ng’akyayigiriza mu Yeekaalu n’akangula ku ddoboozi n’agamba nti, “Ddala mummanyi ne gye nva mumanyiiyo. Sajja ku bwange wabula ekituufu nti oyo eyantuma gwe mutamanyi.
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
29 Nze mmumanyi, kubanga nava gy’ali, era ye yantuma.”
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30 Awo ne basala amagezi okumukwata, kyokka tewaali amukwatako, kubanga ekiseera kye kyali tekinnaba kutuuka.
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 Naye bangi mu bibiina by’abantu ne bamukkiriza, ne bagamba nti, “Kale Kristo bw’alijja, alikola eby’amagero ebisinga eby’ono byakoze?”
But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he will not do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
32 Awo Abafalisaayo ne bawulira abantu nga boogera ku Yesu mu bwama. Awo bakabona abakulu n’Abafalisaayo ne batuma abaweereza baabwe okumukwata.
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33 Awo Yesu n’agamba nti, “Nzija kumala nammwe ebbanga ttono, ndyoke nzireyo eri oyo eyantuma.
Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
34 Mulinnoonya, naye temugenda kundaba, nga gye ndi, mmwe temuyinza kutuukayo.”
You will seek me and will not find me. You cannot come where I am.”
35 Awo Abayudaaya ne beebuuzaganya nti, “Omuntu ono alaga wa gye tutalimulabira? Ayagala kugenda eri abo abaasaasaanira mu Buyonaani, ayigirize Abayonaani?
The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we will not find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
36 Ategeeza ki bw’agamba nti, ‘Mulinnoonya, naye temulindaba?’ Era nti, ‘Gye ndaga temuyinza kutuukayo?’”
What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and will not find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
37 Awo ku lunaku olw’embaga olusembayo, olusingira ddala obukulu, Yesu n’ayimirira n’ayogera n’eddoboozi ery’omwanguka n’agamba nti, “Buli alina ennyonta, ajje gye ndi anywe!
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
38 Ng’Ekyawandiikibwa bwe kigamba nti buli akkiriza Nze emigga egy’amazzi amalamu girikulukuta nga gifuluma mu mutima gwe!”
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
39 Yesu yali ayogera ku Mwoyo Mutukuvu, abamukkiriza gwe baali bagenda okufuna, kubanga Mwoyo oyo yali tannagabibwa, kubanga Yesu yali tannaba kugulumizibwa.
But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40 Abantu abamu mu kibiina bwe baawulira ng’ayogera bw’atyo, ne bagamba nti, “Ddala omuntu ono ye Nnabbi.”
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
41 Abalala ne bagamba nti, “Omuntu ono ye Kristo.” Naye abalala ne bagamba nti, “Nedda, Kristo tayinza kuba ng’ava mu Ggaliraaya.”
Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Kubanga Ekyawandiikibwa kigamba nti: Kristo wa kuva mu zzadde lya Dawudi, era nga wa kuzaalibwa mu Besirekemu, ekibuga kya Dawudi mwe yali.
Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
43 Awo ekibiina ne kyesalamu olwa Yesu.
So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
44 Abamu ne baagala okumukwata, kyokka ne wabulawo amukwatako.
Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 Awo abaweereza b’abakabona abakulu n’Abafalisaayo ne baddayo eri bakabona abakulu n’Abafalisaayo. Abakulembeze Ne bababuuza nti, “Lwaki temumuleese?”
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why did not you bring him?”
46 Abaweereza ne baddamu nti, “Ebigambo by’ayogera bya kitalo, tetubiwulirangako.”
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
47 Abafalisaayo ne babagamba nti, “Era nammwe abakyamizza?
The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You are not also led astray, are you?
48 Waliwo n’omu ku bakulembeze wadde ku Bafalisaayo eyali akkiririzza mu muntu oyo?
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
49 Naye ekibiina ky’abantu bano abatamanyi mateeka, bakolimiddwa!”
But this multitude that does not know the law is cursed.”
50 Awo Nikodemo, omu ku bo eddako eyagenda eri Yesu, n’abuuza nti,
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
51 “Amateeka gaffe gakkiriza okusalira omuntu omusango nga tannaba kuwozesebwa okutegeera ky’akoze?”
“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
52 Ne bamuddamu nti, “Naawe wava Ggaliraaya? Nnoonyereza, ojja kulaba nti e Ggaliraaya teva nnabbi.”
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
53 Awo ne baabuka, buli omu n’addayo eka.
Everyone went to his own house,
