ယောဟနး 12
1 နိသ္တာရောတ္သဝါတ် ပူရွွံ ဒိနၐဋ္ကေ သ္ထိတေ ယီၑု ရျံ ပြမီတမ် ဣလိယာသရံ ၑ္မၑာနာဒ် ဥဒသ္ထာပရတ် တသျ နိဝါသသ္ထာနံ ဗဲထနိယာဂြာမမ် အာဂစ္ဆတ်၊
Six days before the Passover [celebration started], Jesus arrived in Bethany [village, along with us]. That was where Lazarus lived. He was the man Jesus [previously] caused to be alive again after he died.
2 တတြ တဒရ္ထံ ရဇနျာံ ဘောဇျေ ကၖတေ မရ္ထာ ပရျျဝေၐယဒ် ဣလိယာသရ် စ တသျ သင်္ဂိဘိး သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ ဘောဇနာသန ဥပါဝိၑတ်၊
There they gave a dinner to [honor] Jesus. Martha served the meal. [Her younger brother], Lazarus, was among the people who were eating with Jesus.
3 တဒါ မရိယမ် အရ္ဒ္ဓသေဋကံ ဗဟုမူလျံ ဇဋာမာံသီယံ တဲလမ် အာနီယ ယီၑောၑ္စရဏယော ရ္မရ္ဒ္ဒယိတွာ နိဇကေၑ ရ္မာရ္ၐ္ဋုမ် အာရဘတ; တဒါ တဲလသျ ပရိမလေန ဂၖဟမ် အာမောဒိတမ် အဘဝတ်၊
Then Mary took [a bottle] of expensive perfume [called] nard and poured it on Jesus’ feet [to honor him]. Then she wiped his feet with her hair. The whole house was filled with the [beautiful] smell of the perfume.
4 ယး ၑိမောနး ပုတြ ရိၐ္ကရိယောတီယော ယိဟူဒါနာမာ ယီၑုံ ပရကရေၐု သမရ္ပယိၐျတိ သ ၑိၐျသ္တဒါ ကထိတဝါန်,
But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, (OR, Judas, the man from Kerioth [Town]) objected. He was the one who later enabled Jesus’ enemies to seize him.
5 ဧတတ္တဲလံ တြိဘိး ၑတဲ ရ္မုဒြာပဒဲ ရွိကြီတံ သဒ် ဒရိဒြေဘျး ကုတော နာဒီယတ?
He said, “(We should have sold this perfume and given [the money] to poor people!/Why did [we] not sell this perfume and give [the money for it] to the poor people?) [RHQ] We could have gotten 300 days’ wages for it!”
6 သ ဒရိဒြလောကာရ္ထမ် အစိန္တယဒ် ဣတိ န, ကိန္တု သ စော်ရ ဧဝံ တန္နိကဋေ မုဒြာသမ္ပုဋကသ္ထိတျာ တန္မဓျေ ယဒတိၐ္ဌတ် တဒပါဟရတ် တသ္မာတ် ကာရဏာဒ် ဣမာံ ကထာမကထယတ်၊
He said that, not because he cared about the poor people, but instead, because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the bag [of funds that people gave to help Jesus and us his disciples], and he often stole some of the money that was {that [people]} put into it.
7 တဒါ ယီၑုရကထယဒ် ဧနာံ မာ ဝါရယ သာ မမ ၑ္မၑာနသ္ထာပနဒိနာရ္ထံ တဒရက္ၐယတ်၊
Then Jesus said, “Do not bother her! [She bought this perfume] in order to save it until the day when they will bury me [after I die].
8 ဒရိဒြာ ယုၐ္မာကံ သန္နိဓော် သရွွဒါ တိၐ္ဌန္တိ ကိန္တွဟံ သရွွဒါ ယုၐ္မာကံ သန္နိဓော် န တိၐ္ဌာမိ၊
There will always be poor people among you, [so you can help them whenever you want to]. But I will not be with you much longer, [so it is good that she showed right now how much she appreciates me].”
9 တတး ပရံ ယီၑုသ္တတြာသ္တီတိ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑြုတွာ ဗဟဝေါ ယိဟူဒီယာသ္တံ ၑ္မၑာနာဒုတ္ထာပိတမ် ဣလိယာသရဉ္စ ဒြၐ္ဋုံ တတ် သ္ထာနမ် အာဂစ္ဆန၊
A large crowd of Jews heard [people say] that Jesus was there [in Bethany]. So they came, not only [to see] Jesus but also to see Lazarus, the man whom he had caused to become alive again after he died.
10 တဒါ ပြဓာနယာဇကာသ္တမ် ဣလိယာသရမပိ သံဟရ္တ္တုမ် အမန္တြယန်;
So the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also,
11 ယတသ္တေန ဗဟဝေါ ယိဟူဒီယာ ဂတွာ ယီၑော် ဝျၑွသန်၊
because many of the Jews were [deserting them and] going to Jesus and believing in him because of [Jesus causing] Lazarus [to be alive again].
12 အနန္တရံ ယီၑု ရျိရူၑာလမ် နဂရမ် အာဂစ္ဆတီတိ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑြုတွာ ပရေ'ဟနိ ဥတ္သဝါဂတာ ဗဟဝေါ လောကား
The next day the huge crowd of people that had come [to Jerusalem] for the [Passover] celebration heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
13 ခရ္ဇ္ဇူရပတြာဒျာနီယ တံ သာက္ၐာတ် ကရ္တ္တုံ ဗဟိရာဂတျ ဇယ ဇယေတိ ဝါစံ ပြောစ္စဲ ရွက္တုမ် အာရဘန္တ, ဣသြာယေလော ယော ရာဇာ ပရမေၑွရသျ နာမ္နာဂစ္ဆတိ သ ဓနျး၊
So they [cut] branches from some palm trees and took the branches out [of the city] to [wave them when they] met him. Some of them were shouting things like, “Hooray!” “May the Lord [God] bless the one who is coming with his authority [MTY]!” Some other people were shouting, “[May God bless] the King of Israel!”
14 တဒါ "ဟေ သိယောနး ကနျေ မာ ဘဲၐီး ပၑျာယံ တဝ ရာဇာ ဂရ္ဒ္ဒဘၑာဝကမ် အာရုဟျာဂစ္ဆတိ"
When Jesus [came near to Jerusalem], he got a young donkey and sat on it [as he rode into the city]. By doing this, [he fulfilled] what had been written {what [a prophet] had written} [in Scripture],
15 ဣတိ ၑာသ္တြီယဝစနာနုသာရေဏ ယီၑုရေကံ ယုဝဂရ္ဒ္ဒဘံ ပြာပျ တဒုပရျျာရောဟတ်၊
You people of Jerusalem, do not be afraid! Look! Your king is coming! He is riding on a donkey’s colt!
16 အသျား ဃဋနာယာသ္တာတ္ပရျျံ ၑိၐျား ပြထမံ နာဗုဓျန္တ, ကိန္တု ယီၑော် မဟိမာနံ ပြာပ္တေ သတိ ဝါကျမိဒံ တသ္မိန အကထျတ လောကာၑ္စ တမ္ပြတီတ္ထမ် အကုရွွန် ဣတိ တေ သ္မၖတဝန္တး၊
At first [we] disciples did not understand those things. But after Jesus had returned to heaven, we realized that those things had been written {that [a prophet] had written those things} about him, and that [by] doing those things for him [the people had fulfilled what the prophet prophesied].
17 သ ဣလိယာသရံ ၑ္မၑာနာဒ် အာဂန္တုမ် အာဟွတဝါန် ၑ္မၑာနာဉ္စ ဥဒသ္ထာပယဒ် ယေ ယေ လောကာသ္တတ္ကရ္မျ သာက္ၐာဒ် အပၑျန် တေ ပြမာဏံ ဒါတုမ် အာရဘန္တ၊
The crowd that was with him continued to tell other people that he called Lazarus to come out of the tomb, [and that Lazarus had then become alive again].
18 သ ဧတာဒၖၑမ် အဒ္ဘုတံ ကရ္မ္မကရောတ် တသျ ဇနၑြုတေ ရ္လောကာသ္တံ သာက္ၐာတ် ကရ္တ္တုမ် အာဂစ္ဆန်၊
Because of that, many people, because they heard [others say] that he had performed this miracle, went to meet him.
19 တတး ဖိရူၑိနး ပရသ္ပရံ ဝက္တုမ် အာရဘန္တ ယုၐ္မာကံ သရွွာၑ္စေၐ္ဋာ ဝၖထာ ဇာတား, ဣတိ ကိံ ယူယံ န ဗုဓျဓွေ? ပၑျတ သရွွေ လောကာသ္တသျ ပၑ္စာဒွရ္တ္တိနောဘဝန်၊
So the Pharisees said to each other, “It is obvious that we are making no progress [in trying to stop him! It looks like] [HYP] everyone [MTY] is becoming his disciple!”
20 ဘဇနံ ကရ္တ္တုမ် ဥတ္သဝါဂတာနာံ လောကာနာံ ကတိပယာ ဇနာ အနျဒေၑီယာ အာသန်,
Among those who went up [to Jerusalem] to worship [God] during the [Passover] celebration were some Greeks.
21 တေ ဂါလီလီယဗဲတ္သဲဒါနိဝါသိနး ဖိလိပသျ သမီပမ် အာဂတျ ဝျာဟရန် ဟေ မဟေစ္ဆ ဝယံ ယီၑုံ ဒြၐ္ဋုမ် ဣစ္ဆာမး၊
They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida [town] in Galilee [province]. They [wanted him] to do something for them. They said, “Sir, we would like to talk with Jesus.”
22 တတး ဖိလိပေါ ဂတွာ အာန္ဒြိယမ် အဝဒတ် ပၑ္စာဒ် အာန္ဒြိယဖိလိပေါ် ယီၑဝေ ဝါရ္တ္တာမ် အကထယတာံ၊
So after Philip went and told that to Andrew, they both went and told Jesus.
23 တဒါ ယီၑုး ပြတျုဒိတဝါန် မာနဝသုတသျ မဟိမပြာပ္တိသမယ ဥပသ္ထိတး၊
Then, [to show them that he must die in order to give eternal life to non-Jews like those Greeks], Jesus replied to them, “It is time for [God] to honor me, the one who came from heaven. [That will happen when I die].
24 အဟံ ယုၐ္မာနတိယထာရ္ထံ ဝဒါမိ, ဓာနျဗီဇံ မၖတ္တိကာယာံ ပတိတွာ ယဒိ န မၖယတေ တရှျေကာကီ တိၐ္ဌတိ ကိန္တု ယဒိ မၖယတေ တရှိ ဗဟုဂုဏံ ဖလံ ဖလတိ၊
Listen to this carefully: [My life is like a seed] [MET]. If [someone] does not plant a kernel of grain in the ground, it does not change. It remains only one [seed]. But if it changes [after it is planted in the ground, it will grow and] produce many seeds.
25 ယော ဇနေ နိဇပြာဏာန် ပြိယာန် ဇာနာတိ သ တာန် ဟာရယိၐျတိ ကိန္တု ယေ ဇန ဣဟလောကေ နိဇပြာဏာန် အပြိယာန် ဇာနာတိ သေနန္တာယုး ပြာပ္တုံ တာန် ရက္ၐိၐျတိ၊ (aiōnios g166)
Anyone who strongly wants to keep on living [here on earth] will surely lose his life forever. But anyone who is willing to die [HYP] [for my sake] will surely gain eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
26 ကၑ္စိဒ် ယဒိ မမ သေဝကော ဘဝိတုံ ဝါဉ္ဆတိ တရှိ သ မမ ပၑ္စာဒ္ဂါမီ ဘဝတု, တသ္မာဒ် အဟံ ယတြ တိၐ္ဌာမိ မမ သေဝကေပိ တတြ သ္ထာသျတိ; ယော ဇနော မာံ သေဝတေ မမ ပိတာပိ တံ သမ္မံသျတေ၊
If [any of these Greeks or] anyone [else] wants to serve me, they must become my disciples. Then, [after they die], they will be where I am, [in heaven]. My Father will honor all those who serve me.
27 သာမ္ပြတံ မမ ပြာဏာ ဝျာကုလာ ဘဝန္တိ, တသ္မာဒ် ဟေ ပိတရ ဧတသ္မာတ် သမယာန် မာံ ရက္ၐ, ဣတျဟံ ကိံ ပြာရ္ထယိၐျေ? ကိန္တွဟမ် ဧတတ္သမယာရ္ထမ် အဝတီရ္ဏဝါန်၊
Now I am deeply disturbed. (I do not know what to say./What shall I say?) [RHQ] Should I say, ‘[My] Father, save me from this time [when I will suffer and die!’]? No, [I should not say that, because] the reason I came ([into this world/from heaven]) was that I would [suffer] [MTY] now.
28 ဟေ ပိတ: သွနာမ္နော မဟိမာနံ ပြကာၑယ; တနဲဝ သွနာမ္နော မဟိမာနမ် အဟံ ပြာကာၑယံ ပုနရပိ ပြကာၑယိၐျာမိ, ဧၐာ ဂဂဏီယာ ဝါဏီ တသ္မိန် သမယေ'ဇာယတ၊
My Father, show how great you are!” John 12:28b-36a Then [God] spoke [EUP] from heaven, saying, “I have already shown how great [I am], and I will do it again!”
29 တစ္ၑြုတွာ သမီပသ္ထလောကာနာံ ကေစိဒ် အဝဒန် မေဃော'ဂရ္ဇီတ်, ကေစိဒ် အဝဒန် သွရ္ဂီယဒူတော'နေန သဟ ကထာမစကထတ်၊
The crowd that was there heard [it but they did not understand the words. Some said] it was thunder. Others said an angel had spoken to him.
30 တဒါ ယီၑုး ပြတျဝါဒီတ်, မဒရ္ထံ ၑဗ္ဒောယံ နာဘူတ် ယုၐ္မဒရ္ထမေဝါဘူတ်၊
Jesus replied to them, “The voice that you heard speaking [was God’s voice, but] it was not for my benefit. It was for your benefit!
31 အဓုနာ ဇဂတောသျ ဝိစာရ: သမ္ပတ္သျတေ, အဓုနာသျ ဇဂတ: ပတီ ရာဇျာတ် စျောၐျတိ၊
Now is the time for [God] to judge [the people in] [MTY] the world. Now is the time when [I] will destroy [the power of Satan], the one who rules this world.
32 ယဒျဤ ပၖထိဝျာ ဦရ္ဒွွေ ပြောတ္ထာပိတောသ္မိ တရှိ သရွွာန် မာနဝါန် သွသမီပမ် အာကရ္ၐိၐျာမိ၊
But as for me, when I am lifted {when [men] lift me} up from the ground [on a cross, I will make a way for] gathering everyone to myself.”
33 ကထံ တသျ မၖတိ ရ္ဘဝိၐျတိ, ဧတဒ် ဗောဓယိတုံ သ ဣမာံ ကထာမ် အကထယတ်၊
He said this to show us the way in which he was going to die.
34 တဒါ လောကာ အကထယန် သောဘိၐိက္တး သရွွဒါ တိၐ္ဌတီတိ ဝျဝသ္ထာဂြန္ထေ ၑြုတမ် အသ္မာဘိး, တရှိ မနုၐျပုတြး ပြောတ္ထာပိတော ဘဝိၐျတီတိ ဝါကျံ ကထံ ဝဒသိ? မနုၐျပုတြောယံ ကး? (aiōn g165)
[Someone in] the crowd answered him, “We understand from the Scriptures that the Messiah will live forever. So why do you say that the one who came from heaven, [who is the Messiah], will be lifted up {that [men] will lift up the one who came from heaven, [who is the Messiah], } on a cross? What kind of man who came from heaven are you [talking about]? (OR, That’s not the [kind] of Messiah [we are expecting]!)” (aiōn g165)
35 တဒါ ယီၑုရကထာယဒ် ယုၐ္မာဘိး သာရ္ဒ္ဓမ် အလ္ပဒိနာနိ ဇျောတိရာသ္တေ, ယထာ ယုၐ္မာန် အန္ဓကာရော နာစ္ဆာဒယတိ တဒရ္ထံ ယာဝတ္ကာလံ ယုၐ္မာဘိး သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ ဇျောတိသ္တိၐ္ဌတိ တာဝတ္ကာလံ ဂစ္ဆတ; ယော ဇနော'န္ဓကာရေ ဂစ္ဆတိ သ ကုတြ ယာတီတိ န ဇာနာတိ၊
Then Jesus said to them, “[My message is like] [MET] a light for you. [I] will be with you for only a little while longer. Live and act [as you should] while I am still with you, [because suddenly you will have no more opportunity to hear my message! You do not want to be like] [MET] [someone] who cannot see where he is going any more [when it suddenly] becomes dark!
36 အတဧဝ ယာဝတ္ကာလံ ယုၐ္မာကံ နိကဋေ ဇျောတိရာသ္တေ တာဝတ္ကာလံ ဇျောတီရူပသန္တာနာ ဘဝိတုံ ဇျောတိၐိ ဝိၑွသိတ; ဣမာံ ကထာံ ကထယိတွာ ယီၑုး ပြသ္ထာယ တေဘျး သွံ ဂုပ္တဝါန်၊
Believe in my message [MET] while you still have an opportunity to do it, in order that you may become people who have accepted my truth [MET]!” John 12:36b-43 After Jesus said those things, he left them and hid from them.
37 ယဒျပိ ယီၑုသ္တေၐာံ သမက္ၐမ် ဧတာဝဒါၑ္စရျျကရ္မ္မာဏိ ကၖတဝါန် တထာပိ တေ တသ္မိန် န ဝျၑွသန်၊
Although he had done many miracles while people were watching, [most of] them refused to believe that he [is] ([the Messiah/from God]).
38 အတဧဝ ကး ပြတျေတိ သုသံဝါဒံ ပရေၑာသ္မတ် ပြစာရိတံ? ပြကာၑတေ ပရေၑသျ ဟသ္တး ကသျ စ သန္နိဓော်? ယိၑယိယဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိနာ ယဒေတဒ် ဝါကျမုက္တံ တတ် သဖလမ် အဘဝတ်၊
[Their stubbornness and refusal to believe was similar to the stubbornness of the people that] the prophet Isaiah wrote about long ago: Lord, (hardly anyone has believed our message!/who has believed our message?) [RHQ] Most people refused to accept it, even though you showed them your power!
39 တေ ပြတျေတုံ နာၑန္ကုဝန် တသ္မိန် ယိၑယိယဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိ ပုနရဝါဒီဒ်,
That was the reason why they were unable to believe. [It was like] Isaiah wrote somewhere else that God said:
40 ယဒါ, "တေ နယနဲ ရ္န ပၑျန္တိ ဗုဒ္ဓိဘိၑ္စ န ဗုဓျန္တေ တဲ ရ္မနးသု ပရိဝရ္တ္တိတေၐု စ တာနဟံ ယထာ သွသ္ထာန် န ကရောမိ တထာ သ တေၐာံ လောစနာနျန္ဓာနိ ကၖတွာ တေၐာမန္တးကရဏာနိ ဂါဎာနိ ကရိၐျတိ၊ "
They have [refused to understand; they acted as though they were] blind people! They were insensible in their inner beings! As a result, they have not perceived [my truth]! They have not understood it in their inner beings! They have not turned [from their sinful lives], and because of that I cannot help them!
41 ယိၑယိယော ယဒါ ယီၑော ရ္မဟိမာနံ ဝိလောကျ တသ္မိန် ကထာမကထယတ် တဒါ ဘဝိၐျဒွါကျမ် ဤဒၖၑံ ပြကာၑယတ်၊
Isaiah wrote that because [it was as though] he saw [ahead of time] how great Jesus would be, and he prophesied [those things] about him.
42 တထာပျဓိပတိနာံ ဗဟဝသ္တသ္မိန် ပြတျာယန်၊ ကိန္တု ဖိရူၑိနသ္တာန် ဘဇနဂၖဟာဒ် ဒူရီကုရွွန္တီတိ ဘယာတ် တေ တံ န သွီကၖတဝန္တး၊
Although most of the Jewish [leaders] [SYN] did not believe that Jesus is ([the Messiah/from God]), some of them believed in him. But they would not tell anyone that they believed in him, because [they were afraid that if they said that], the Pharisees would not let them worship in the synagogues.
43 ယတ ဤၑွရသျ ပြၑံသာတော မာနဝါနာံ ပြၑံသာယာံ တေ'ပြိယန္တ၊
They wanted people to praise them more than they wanted God to praise them.
44 တဒါ ယီၑုရုစ္စဲးကာရမ် အကထယဒ် ယော ဇနော မယိ ဝိၑွသိတိ သ ကေဝလေ မယိ ဝိၑွသိတီတိ န, သ မတ္ပြေရကေ'ပိ ဝိၑွသိတိ၊
[Another day, when] Jesus [was teaching the people, he] shouted, “Those who believe in me, they are not believing in [me alone]. Instead, [it is as though] they also believe in the one who sent me.
45 ယော ဇနော မာံ ပၑျတိ သ မတ္ပြေရကမပိ ပၑျတိ၊
When they see me [and what I am doing, it is as though] they are seeing the one who sent me.
46 ယော ဇနော မာံ ပြတျေတိ သ ယထာန္ဓကာရေ န တိၐ္ဌတိ တဒရ္ထမ် အဟံ ဇျောတိးသွရူပေါ ဘူတွာ ဇဂတျသ္မိန် အဝတီရ္ဏဝါန်၊
I have come into the world [to show people God’s truth], as a light [shows people what is around them]. I have come in order that people who believe in me will not remain [ignorant of God’s truth] [MET], [as those who are] in the darkness [are ignorant of what is around them].
47 မမ ကထာံ ၑြုတွာ ယဒိ ကၑ္စိန် န ဝိၑွသိတိ တရှိ တမဟံ ဒေါၐိဏံ န ကရောမိ, ယတော ဟေတော ရ္ဇဂတော ဇနာနာံ ဒေါၐာန် နိၑ္စိတာန် ကရ္တ္တုံ နာဂတျ တာန် ပရိစာတုမ် အာဂတောသ္မိ၊
As for those who hear my message but do not obey [its commands], I am not [the one who] judges them. [The main reason] that I came ([into the world/from heaven]) was not to judge [the people of] [MTY] the world. Instead, I came to save them [from being punished for their sins].
48 ယး ကၑ္စိန် မာံ န ၑြဒ္ဓါယ မမ ကထံ န ဂၖဟ္လာတိ, အနျသ္တံ ဒေါၐိဏံ ကရိၐျတိ ဝသ္တုတသ္တု ယာံ ကထာမဟမ် အစကထံ သာ ကထာ စရမေ'နှိ တံ ဒေါၐိဏံ ကရိၐျတိ၊
There is something that will judge those who reject me and do not accept my message. On the judgment day [God] will condemn them [because they rejected] the message that I have told them.
49 ယတော ဟေတောရဟံ သွတး ကိမပိ န ကထယာမိ, ကိံ ကိံ မယာ ကထယိတဝျံ ကိံ သမုပဒေၐ္ဋဝျဉ္စ ဣတိ မတ္ပြေရယိတာ ပိတာ မာမာဇ္ဉာပယတ်၊
I have not said things from my own [authority]. Instead, [my] Father, the one who sent me, instructed me what to say and how I should say it.
