UJohane 7
1 Njalo emva kwalezizinto uJesu wayehamba eGalili; ngoba wayengathandi ukuhamba eJudiya, ngenxa yokuthi amaJuda ayedinga ukumbulala.
And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Wawusondele umkhosi wamaJuda wokwakha amadumba.
Now the tabernacles, the feast of the Jews, was near.
3 Ngakho abafowabo bathi kuye: Suka lapha, uye eJudiya, ukuze labafundi bakho babone imisebenzi yakho oyenzayo.
His brethren therefore said to him, Remove hence and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou doest;
4 Ngoba kakho owenza ulutho ensitha, kodwa yena ngokwakhe edinga ukuba sobala. Uba uzenza lezizinto, ziveze wena emhlabeni.
for no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be [known] in public. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world:
5 Ngoba labafowabo babengakholwa kuye.
for neither did his brethren believe on him.
6 Ngakho uJesu wathi kubo: Isikhathi sami kasikafiki, kodwa esenu isikhathi sihlala silungile.
Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 Ungelizonde umhlaba lina; kodwa uyangizonda, ngoba mina ngifakaza ngawo, ukuthi imisebenzi yawo mibi.
The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.
8 Yenyukelani lina emkhosini lo; mina angikenyukeli kulumkhosi, ngoba isikhathi sami kasikagcwaliseki.
Ye, go ye up to this feast. I go not up to this feast, for my time is not yet fulfilled.
9 Esetshilo lezizinto kubo, wahlala eGalili.
Having said these things to them he abode in Galilee.
10 Kodwa sebenyukile abafowabo, laye wasesenyukela emkhosini, kungeyisikho obala, kodwa kungathi kusensitha.
But when his brethren had gone up, then he himself also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.
11 AmaJuda asemdinga emkhosini, athi: Ungaphi yena?
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12 Kwakukhona ukukhonona okukhulu ngaye phakathi kwamaxuku; abanye bathi: Ulungile. Kodwa abanye bathi: Hatshi, kodwa uyaliduhisa ixuku.
And there was much murmuring concerning him among the crowds. Some said, He is [a] good [man]; others said, No; but he deceives the crowd.
13 Loba kunjalo kwakungekho muntu owakhuluma obala ngaye ngokwesaba amaJuda.
However, no one spoke openly concerning him on account of [their] fear of the Jews.
14 Kuthe sekuphakathi komkhosi, uJesu wenyukela ethempelini, wafundisa.
But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
15 AmaJuda asemangala athi: Lo uyazi njani imibhalo, engafundanga?
The Jews therefore wondered, saying, How knows this [man] letters, having never learned?
16 UJesu wawaphendula wathi: Imfundiso yami kayisiyo eyami kodwa ngeyalowo ongithumileyo.
Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but [that] of him that has sent me.
17 Uba umuntu ethanda ukwenza intando yakhe, uzakwazi ngemfundiso, ukuthi ivela kuNkulunkulu, kumbe ngizikhulumela mina ngokwami.
If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or [that] I speak from myself.
18 Ozikhulumela ngokwakhe, uzidingela udumo lwakhe; kodwa odinga udumo lwalowo omthumileyo, lowo uqinisile, njalo kakukho ukungalungi kuye.
He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.
19 Kalinikanga yini uMozisi umlayo, kanti kakho kini ogcina umlayo? Lidingelani ukungibulala?
Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
20 Ixuku laphendula lathi: Uledimoni; ngubani odinga ukukubulala?
The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?
21 UJesu waphendula wathi kubo: Ngenze umsebenzi owodwa, njalo lonke liyamangala.
Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder.
22 Ngakho uMozisi walinika ukusoka (kungeyisikho ukuthi kwavela kuMozisi, kodwa kubobaba), njalo liyamsoka umuntu langesabatha.
Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.
23 Uba ngesabatha umuntu esemukela ukusoka, ukuze kungephulwa umlayo kaMozisi, lingithukuthelela ngoba ngaphilisa umuntu ngokupheleleyo ngesabatha yini?
If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath?
24 Lingahluleli ngokubona, kodwa yahlulelani ukwahlulela okuqondileyo.
Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.
25 Abanye kwabeJerusalema basebesithi: Lo kayisuye yini abadinga ukumbulala?
Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
26 Kodwa khangela ukhuluma obala, kodwa kabatsho lutho kuye. Kungaba yikuthi ababusi sebesazi oqotho ukuthi lo unguKristu uqobo yini?
and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?
27 Kodwa lo siyazi lapho avela khona; kodwa uKristu nxa efika, kakho ozakwazi lapho avela khona.
But [as to] this [man] we know whence he is. Now [as to] the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.
28 Ngakho uJesu efundisa ethempelini wamemeza wathi: Lami liyangazi, liyakwazi lalapho engivela khona; njalo kangizizelanga ngokwami, kodwa ongithumileyo uqinisile, elingamaziyo lina.
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye do not know.
29 Kodwa ngiyamazi mina, ngoba ngivela kuye, njalo yena ungithumile.
I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me.
30 Ngakho badinga ukumbamba, kodwa kakubanga khona owabeka isandla phezu kwakhe, ngoba ihola lakhe lalingakafiki.
They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 Kodwa abanengi bexuku bakholwa kuye, bathi: Nxa uKristu esefikile, uzakwenza yini izibonakaliso ezinengi kulalezi azenzileyo lo?
But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this [man] has done?
32 AbaFarisi bezwa ixuku likhonona lezizinto ngaye; abapristi abakhulu labaFarisi basebethuma abancedisi ukuze bambambe.
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.
33 UJesu wasesithi kubo: Ngiselani okwesikhatshana, besengihamba ngiye kongithumileyo.
Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him that has sent me.
34 Lizangidinga, lingangitholi, lalapho mina engikhona, lina lingeze leza.
Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me], and where I am ye cannot come.
35 Ngakho amaJuda akhulumisana athi: Uzakuya ngaphi lo ukuthi thina singayikumthola? Kayikuya yini kwabahlakazekileyo bamaGriki, afundise amaGriki?
The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
36 Yilizwi bani leli alitshoyo elokuthi: Lizangidinga, aliyikungithola; lelokuthi: Lapho engikhona mina, lina lingeze leza?
What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me]; and where I am ye cannot come?
37 Kwathi ngosuku lokucina olukhulu lomkhosi uJesu wema wamemeza, esithi: Uba ekhona owomileyo, keze kimi anathe.
In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.
38 Okholwa kimi, njengokutsho kombhalo, kuzageleza kuphuma esiswini sakhe imifula yamanzi aphilayo.
He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39 Lalokhu wakutsho ngoMoya ababezamemukela abakholwa kuye; ngoba uMoya oNgcwele wayengakafiki, lokhu uJesu wayengakadunyiswa.
But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 Ngakho abanengi bexuku besizwa lelilizwi bathi: Oqotho lo ungulowomProfethi.
[Some] out of the crowd therefore, having heard this word, said, This is truly the prophet.
41 Abanye bathi: Lo unguKristu. Kodwa abanye bathi: Kambe uKristu uzavela eGalili?
Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Kawutsho yini umbhalo ukuthi uKristu uzavela enzalweni kaDavida, leBhethelehema, emzaneni lapho uDavida ayekhona?
Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?
43 Ngakho kwaba khona ukwehlukana ngaye phakathi kwexuku.
There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him.
44 Abanye babo bafuna ukumbamba, kodwa kakubanga khona owambeka izandla.
But some of them desired to take him, but no one laid hands upon him.
45 Khona abancedisi baya kubapristi abakhulu lakubaFarisi; bona basebesithi kubo: Kungani lingamlethanga?
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?
46 Abancedisi baphendula bathi: Kakuzange kukhulume umuntu kanje, njengalumuntu.
The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man [speaks].
47 AbaFarisi basebebaphendula bathi: Lani seliduhisiwe yini?
The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also deceived?
48 Ukhona yini kubabusi kumbe kubaFarisi okholwe kuye?
Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?
49 Kodwa lelixuku elingawaziyo umlayo liqalekisiwe.
But this crowd, which does not know the law, are accursed.
50 UNikodima, lowo oweza kuye ebusuku, owayengomunye wabo, wathi kubo:
Nicodemus says to them (being one of themselves),
51 Kanti umlayo wakithi uyamgweba umuntu, ngaphandle kokuthi umuzwe kuqala ukwazi akwenzayo?
Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does?
52 Baphendula bathi kuye: Kanti lawe ungoweGalili? Hlolisisa ubone ukuthi kakuvukanga umprofethi eGalili.
They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look, that no prophet arises out of Galilee.
53 Ngulowo lalowo wasesuka waya ekhaya.
And every one went to his home.
