Yohani 9
1 Yesu pakaweriti kankupita, kamwoniti muntu yumu kana lwisi kwanjira kwiwuka.
As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.
2 Wafundwa wakuwi wamkosiya, “mfunda! Hashi, gaa ndo yakatenda vidoda vyavimtenda muntu ayu kayiwuki pakawera lwisi? Hashi, vidoda vyakuwi mweni ama vidoda vya walera wakuwi?”
So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"
3 Yesu kankula, “Shitwatila ashi shilawira ndiri toziya ya vidoda vyakuwi yomberi, ama vidoda vya walelwa wakuwi, ira kiwuka lwisi su makakala ga Mlungu gawonikani gatenda lihengu mwakuwi.
"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.
4 Kuweri kwankali paliwala tufiruwa kwendeleya kutenda lihengu lya uliya yakantumiti, mana pashiru peni pakwiza muntu hapeni kawezi kutenda lihengu.
We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.
5 Shipindi nankali pasipanu, neni ndo gulangala gwa pasi panu.”
When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
6 Pakatakuliti kala aga, katema mata pasi, kalitenda linkandiga, kamswagaziya mumasu ulii yakawera na lwisi,
After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,
7 kamgambira, “Gugendi na gukalifyankuli palitanda lya Silowamu.” Mana ya litawu ali ndo “Yawamtumiti”. Muntu kana lwisi uliya kagenda na kulifyankula kulitanda lya Siloam, shakapanu kawuya pakawera kankuwona.
"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means 'Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.
8 Su, wapakwegera wakuwi na walii yawaweriti wavimana handa kaweriti muhushu mluwa, walonga, “Hashi, ayu ndiri uliya muhushu yakaweriti pakalivaga na kuluwa luwa?”
His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
9 Wamonga pawatakula, “Ndomweni.” Wantu wamu watakula, “ndala! Ira kalifana nayomberi.” Uliya yakaweriti lwisi katakula, “Ndo neni!”
"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."
10 Wamkosiya, “Vinu, masu gakuwi gapata hashi kutumula?”
"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.
11 Nayomberi kawankula, “Muntu uliya yawamshema Yesu katenditi linkandiga, kaswagaziya mumasu na kung'ambira, ‘Gugendi gwakalifyankuli palitanda lya Silowamu,’ su neni ng'enda, nulifyankula sheni shangu, mpata kwona.”
"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."
12 Wamkosia, “Yomberi ka koshi?” Nayomberi kawankula, “Neni nuvimana ndiri!”
"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.
13 Shakapanu wamjega muntu uliya yakaweriti kana lwisi kwa Mafalisayu.
They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.
14 Lishaka ali Yesu pakatenditi linkandiga na kumtumuziya masu muntu ayu, iweriti Lishaka lya kwoyera.
Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath.
15 Mafalisayu wamkosiya kayi muntu ayu, “Gupata hashi kwona?” Nayomberi kawagambira, “Kantyeremeka linkandiga mumasu, naneni nulifyankula sheni shangu, vinu weza kwona.”
So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."
16 Mafalisayu wamu walonga, “Muntu kantenditi hangu hapeni kalawi kwa Mlungu, toziya kajimira ndiri malagaliru ga Lishaka lya kwoyera.” Kumbiti wamonga walonga, “Muntu kana vidoda kaweza hashi kutenda liuzauza lya ntambu ayi?” Kuwera na malekaniru pakati pawu.
This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.
17 Mafalisayu wamkosiya kayi muntu ayu, “Yomberi kagagubutula masu, gutakula shishi kwa yomberi?” Muntu uliya kawagambira, “Yomberi ndo mbuyi gwa Mlungu!”
And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.
18 Wakulu wa Shiyawudi wajimira ndiri handa muntu ayu kaweriti lwisi na vinu kankuwona mpaka pawawashemiti walera wakuwi
The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them,
19 na wawakosiya walera awa, “Hashi, ayu mwana gwenu ndo mwenga mlonga kiwukiti lwisi? Hashi vinu kapata kwona?”
"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"
20 Walera wakuwi wankula, “Tuvimana handa ayu ndo mwana gwetu na kiwukiti lwisi.
"We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind;
21 Kumbiti kapata hashi kwona, hapeni tuvimani na wala tuvimana ndiri uliya yakamtumuziyiti masu. Mumkosiyi mweni, yomberi ndo muntu mkulu, kaweza kulitakulira mweni.”
but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."
22 Walera wakuwi walongiti hangu toziya wawatiriti wakolamlima wa Shiyawudi, kwani wakolamlima awa waweriti waliragilirana handa muntu yoseri yakamini handa Yesu ndo Kristu kalivagi kunja kwa numba ya Mlungu.
Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.
23 Walelwa wakuwi walongiti, “Yomberi ndo muntu mkulu, Mumkosiyi.”
That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him himself."
24 Su, wamshema kayi muntu ulii yakiwukiti lwisi na wamgambira, “Gumpanani ukwisa Mlungu! Twenga tuvimana kuwera muntu ayu ndo kana vidoda.”
A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner."
25 Yomberi kankula, “Handa ndo nana vidoda neni nuvimana ndiri. Kumbiti shintu shimu nushimana, neriti na lwisi na vinu mona.”
"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."
26 Wamkosiya, “Kakutenderiti shishi? Hashi kakutumuliziya masu gaku?”
"What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?"
27 Muntu ayu kawankula, “Nuwagambireni mbera kala, namwenga mpikanira ndiri, mfira shishi kupikinira kayi? Hashi mwenga viraa mfira muweri wafundwa wakuwi?”
"I have told you already," he replied, "and you did not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also mean to be disciples of his?"
28 Kumbiti womberi wamwigira pawatakula, “Gwenga ndo mfundwa gwakuwi, twenga wafundwa wa Musa.
Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29 Twega tuvimana handa Mlungu katakuliti na Musa, kumbiti muntu ayu tumumana ndiri kalawira koshi!”
We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."
30 Muntu ulii kawankula, “Ashi ndo shitwatira sha kulikangasha! Mwenga muvimana ndiri kalawira koshi, kumbiti kantumuliziya masu gangu!
"Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!
31 Tuvimana handa Mlungu hapeni kawapikiniri wantu wana vidoda, ira kumpikinira yoseri yakamjimira na kutenda vyakafiriti.
We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.
32 Kwanjira lupaga pasipanu ipikanirika ndiri handa muntu kagatumuziya masu ga muntu yakayiwukiti lwisi. (aiōn g165)
From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth. (aiōn g165)
33 Payiwera ndiri muntu ayu kalawa kwa Mlungu, mekaweziti ndiri kutenda shintu shoseri!”
Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."
34 Womberi wamwankula, “Gwenga gwiwuka na kulelwa pavidoda, na hashi guweza kutufunda twenga?” Wamwinga kulawa Mnumba ya Mlungu.
"You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do you teach us?" And they put him out of the synagogue.
35 Yesu kapikiniriti yagalawiliti, kamwoniti muntu uliya kamkosiya, “Hashi, gwenga gumjimira Mwana gwa Muntu?”
Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
36 Muntu ayu kankula, “Mtuwa, gung'ambiri yomberi ndo gaa, su mpati kumjimira!”
"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."
37 Yesu kamgambira, “Gumwona kala na yomberi ndo yakatakula nagwenga vinu.”
"You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you."
38 Muntu ayu katakula, “Nukujimira, Mtuwa!” Na kamsuntamilira Yesu.
"I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet.
39 Yesu katakula, “Neni niza pasipanu kutoza wantu, wanalwisi wapati kuwona na woseri yawalola waweri lwisi.”
"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind."
40 Mafalisayu wamu waweriti pamuhera na yomberi wampikinira pakatakuriti aga na wamkosiya, “Gumaanisha natwenga twanalwisi viraa?”
These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are we also blind?"
41 Yesu kawankula, “Mwangaweriti mwana lwisi, mwangaweriti ndiri na vidoda, kumbiti mwenga vinu mtakula, twenga tuwona, ayi ilanguziya kuwera mwana vidoda.”
"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"
