UJohane 17

1 UJesu wakhuluma lezizinto, waphakamisela amehlo akhe ezulwini, wathi: Baba, ihola selifikile; dumisa iNdodana yakho, ukuze layo iNdodana yakho ikudumise;

Jesus spoke these words, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son may also glorify thee;

2 njengoba uyinikile amandla phezu kwayo yonke inyama, ukuze bonke obanike yona, ibanike impilo elaphakade. (aiōnios g166)

as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all that thou hast given him. (aiōnios g166)

3 Lalokhu yimpilo elaphakade, ukuthi bazi wena uNkulunkulu wedwa weqiniso, loJesu Kristu omthumileyo. (aiōnios g166)

And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. (aiōnios g166)

4 Mina ngikudumisile emhlabeni; ngiwuqedile umsebenzi obunginike wona ukuthi ngiwenze;

I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5 khathesi-ke ngidumise wena, Baba, ngilawe uqobo ngenkazimulo engangilayo kanye lawe ungakabi khona umhlaba.

And now, Father, glorify me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

6 Ngilibonakalisile ibizo lakho ebantwini onginike bona bevela emhlabeni; babengabakho, njalo wanginika bona; balilondolozile ilizwi lakho.

I have made known thy name to the men that thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them, to me, and they have kept thy word.

7 Khathesi sebesazi ukuthi konke, loba yikuphi onginike khona, kuvela kuwe;

Now they know that all things that thou hast given me are from thee;

8 ngoba amazwi onginike wona, ngibanikile wona; bawemukela, njalo bayazi ngeqiniso ukuthi ngiphuma kuwe, bakholiwe ukuthi ungithumile wena.

for the words which thou gavest me I have given them; and they have received them, and they know surely that I came forth from thee, and they believe that thou didst send me.

9 Mina ngiyabakhulekela bona; kangikhulekeli umhlaba, kodwa labo onginike bona, ngoba bangabakho;

I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me; for they are thine.

10 njalo konke okwami kungokwakho, lokwakho kungokwami; njalo ngidunyisiwe kubo.

And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

11 Njalo kangisekho emhlabeni, kodwa basemhlabeni bona, njalo mina ngiyeza kuwe. Baba oNgcwele, balondoloze ebizweni lakho labo onginike bona, ukuze babe munye, njengathi.

And I am no longer in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are one.

12 Lapho ngiselabo emhlabeni, mina ngabalondoloza ebizweni lakho; labo onginike bona ngibalindile, njalo kakho kubo olahlekileyo, ngaphandle kwendodana yokulahlwa, ukuze kugcwaliseke umbhalo.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me, I have kept; and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.

13 Kodwa khathesi ngiza kuwe, njalo lezizinto ngizikhuluma emhlabeni, ukuze babe lentokozo yami igcwalisekile kubo.

And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 Mina ngibanikile ilizwi lakho, lomhlaba ubazondile, ngoba bengeyisibo abomhlaba, njengoba mina ngingesuye owomhlaba.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15 Kangiceli ukuthi ubasuse emhlabeni, kodwa ukuze ubalondoloze kokubi.

I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the Evil One.

16 Kabasibo abomhlaba, njengalokhu mina ngingesuye owomhlaba.

They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

17 Bangcwelise eqinisweni lakho; ilizwi lakho liliqiniso.

Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.

18 Njengalokhu wangithuma emhlabeni, lami ngibathumile emhlabeni.

As thou hast sent me into the world, so I send them into the world;

19 Njalo mina ngizehlukanisela bona, ukuze labo behlukaniswe eqinisweni.

and for them I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth.

20 Njalo kangiceleli laba bodwa, kodwa lalabo abazakholwa kimi ngelizwi labo;

I pray, not for these only, but for those also who shall believe on me through their word;

21 ukuze bonke babe munye; njengalokhu wena, Baba, ukimi, lami ngikuwe, ukuze labo babe munye kithi; ukuze umhlaba ukholwe ukuthi wena ungithumile.

that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22 Lenkazimulo mina onginike yona, ngibanikile bona, ukuze babe munye, njengathi simunye.

And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one;

23 Mina ngikubo, lawe ukimi, ukuze bapheleliswe babe munye, lokuze umhlaba wazi ukuthi wena ungithumile, lokuthi ubathandile, njengalokhu ungithandile.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24 Baba, labo onginike bona, ngithanda ukuthi lapho mina engikhona, labo babe lami; ukuze babone inkazimulo yami, onginike yona, ngoba wangithanda kungakasekelwa umhlaba.

Father, I wish that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

25 Baba olungileyo, ngitsho umhlaba kawukwazanga, kodwa mina ngikwazile, lalaba bayazi ukuthi wena ungithumile;

Righteous Father, though the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26 njalo ngibazisile ibizo lakho, njalo ngizabazisa lona; ukuze uthando ongithande ngalo lube kubo, lami kubo.

And I have made known to them thy name, and will continue to make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.