ယောဟနး 3
1 နိကဒိမနာမာ ယိဟူဒီယာနာမ် အဓိပတိး ဖိရူၑီ က္ၐဏဒါယာံ
There was a man named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish religious council. He belonged to the Pharisee [religious sect].
2 ယီၑော်ရဘျရ္ဏမ် အာဝြဇျ ဝျာဟာရ္ၐီတ်, ဟေ ဂုရော ဘဝါန် ဤၑွရာဒ် အာဂတ် ဧက ဥပဒေၐ္ဋာ, ဧတဒ် အသ္မာဘိရ္ဇ္ဉာယတေ; ယတော ဘဝတာ ယာနျာၑ္စရျျကရ္မ္မာဏိ ကြိယန္တေ ပရမေၑွရသျ သာဟာယျံ ဝိနာ ကေနာပိ တတ္တတ္ကရ္မ္မာဏိ ကရ္တ္တုံ န ၑကျန္တေ၊
He went to see Jesus at night, [to talk to him about God’s kingdom]. He said to Jesus, “Teacher, [we believe that] you are a teacher who has come from God. [We believe this because] we know that someone could perform the miracles you are doing only if God were helping him.”
3 တဒါ ယီၑုရုတ္တရံ ဒတ္တဝါန် တဝါဟံ ယထာရ္ထတရံ ဝျာဟရာမိ ပုနရ္ဇန္မနိ န သတိ ကောပိ မာနဝ ဤၑွရသျ ရာဇျံ ဒြၐ္ဋုံ န ၑက္နောတိ၊
Jesus replied to him, “Listen to this carefully: Unless people are born again and [have a new life from God], they cannot even see the place where God rules [MET]!”
4 တတော နိကဒီမး ပြတျဝေါစတ် မနုဇော ဝၖဒ္ဓေါ ဘူတွာ ကထံ ဇနိၐျတေ? သ ကိံ ပုန ရ္မာတၖရ္ဇဌရံ ပြဝိၑျ ဇနိတုံ ၑက္နောတိ?
Then Nicodemus said to him, “(No one can be born when he is old!/How can anyone be born when he is old?) [RHQ] (There is no way he can enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time!/How can he enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time?) [RHQ]”
5 ယီၑုရဝါဒီဒ် ယထာရ္ထတရမ် အဟံ ကထယာမိ မနုဇေ တောယာတ္မဘျာံ ပုန ရ္န ဇာတေ သ ဤၑွရသျ ရာဇျံ ပြဝေၐ္ဋုံ န ၑက္နောတိ၊
Jesus answered, “Note this: Being born naturally is not [enough]; people need to also be born [spiritually] by God’s Spirit. If that does not happen, they cannot experience God ruling [MET] [their lives].
6 မာံသာဒ် ယတ် ဇာယတေ တန် မာံသမေဝ တထာတ္မနော ယော ဇာယတေ သ အာတ္မဲဝ၊
Humans give birth to humans. But those who are born [again] as a result of what [God’s] Spirit [does receive a new] spiritual [nature from God].
7 ယုၐ္မာဘိး ပုန ရ္ဇနိတဝျံ မမဲတသျာံ ကထာယာမ် အာၑ္စရျံ မာ မံသ္ထား၊
Do not be surprised about my telling you that you must be born again [and have a new life from God].
8 သဒါဂတိရျာံ ဒိၑမိစ္ဆတိ တသျာမေဝ ဒိၑိ ဝါတိ, တွံ တသျ သွနံ ၑုဏောၐိ ကိန္တု သ ကုတ အာယာတိ ကုတြ ယာတိ ဝါ ကိမပိ န ဇာနာသိ တဒွါဒ် အာတ္မနး သကာၑာတ် သရွွေၐာံ မနုဇာနာံ ဇန္မ ဘဝတိ၊
[Let me illustrate]: The wind blows wherever it wants to blow. You hear its sound, but you do not know where the wind comes from or where it is going. Similarly, those [who do not know God cannot understand/control/predict] how people are born again as a result of what God’s spirit [does].”
9 တဒါ နိကဒီမး ပၖၐ္ဋဝါန် ဧတတ် ကထံ ဘဝိတုံ ၑက္နောတိ?
Nicodemus replied to him, “How can that happen?”
10 ယီၑုး ပြတျက္တဝါန် တွမိသြာယေလော ဂုရုရ္ဘူတွာပိ ကိမေတာံ ကထာံ န ဝေတ္သိ?
Jesus replied to him, “You [(sg)] are a [well-known] teacher among [us] Israelite people, so (I am surprised that you do not understand these things!/how is it that you do not understand these things?) [RHQ]
11 တုဘျံ ယထာရ္ထံ ကထယာမိ, ဝယံ ယဒ် ဝိဒ္မသ္တဒ် ဝစ္မး ယံစ္စ ပၑျာမသ္တသျဲဝ သာက္ၐျံ ဒဒ္မး ကိန္တု ယုၐ္မာဘိရသ္မာကံ သာက္ၐိတွံ န ဂၖဟျတေ၊
Listen to this carefully: (My disciples and I/I) tell you [(pl)] about the things that my disciples and I have seen and know [are true], but you [(pl)] do not admit that what my disciples and I are saying [is true].
12 ဧတသျ သံသာရသျ ကထာယာံ ကထိတာယာံ ယဒိ ယူယံ န ဝိၑွသိထ တရှိ သွရ္ဂီယာယာံ ကထာယာံ ကထံ ဝိၑွသိၐျထ?
I have told you about the things [that happen here] on earth that are true, but you [(pl)] do not believe me. So if I tell you [(sg)] about things [that happen] in heaven, (you certainly will not believe me!/how will you believe me?) [RHQ]
13 ယး သွရ္ဂေ'သ္တိ ယံ စ သွရ္ဂာဒ် အဝါရောဟတ် တံ မာနဝတနယံ ဝိနာ ကောပိ သွရ္ဂံ နာရောဟတ်၊
I am the only one who has gone up to heaven; no one else has gone up there. I am also the one who came down from heaven. [So I know what happens there].
14 အပရဉ္စ မူသာ ယထာ ပြာန္တရေ သရ္ပံ ပြောတ္ထာပိတဝါန် မနုၐျပုတြော'ပိ တထဲဝေါတ္ထာပိတဝျး;
[Long ago when the Israelite people rebelled against God] in the desolate area, [God sent poisonous snakes to bite them]. But when Moses lifted up [on a pole] the [model of a] poisonous snake, [everyone who looked at that model was healed from their snake bites]. Similarly, [even though I] am the one who came from heaven, [some day people] will lift me up [on a cross to kill me].
As a result, everyone who believes/trusts in me will have eternal life.” (aiōnios g166)
16 ဤၑွရ ဣတ္ထံ ဇဂဒဒယတ ယတ် သွမဒွိတီယံ တနယံ ပြာဒဒါတ် တတော ယး ကၑ္စိတ် တသ္မိန် ဝိၑွသိၐျတိ သော'ဝိနာၑျး သန် အနန္တာယုး ပြာပ္သျတိ၊ (aiōnios g166)
God loved us people [MTY] in the world so much that he gave his only Son [as a sacrifice for us], in order that everyone who believes in him would not be separated from God forever. Instead, they would have eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
17 ဤၑွရော ဇဂတော လောကာန် ဒဏ္ဍယိတုံ သွပုတြံ န ပြေၐျ တာန် ပရိတြာတုံ ပြေၐိတဝါန်၊
When God sent his Son into the world, his purpose was not to punish the [people in] [MTY] the world for their sins. Instead, he sent him in order that they might be saved by him {he might save them} [from being] ([guilty/punished]) [for their sins].
18 အတဧဝ ယး ကၑ္စိတ် တသ္မိန် ဝိၑွသိတိ သ ဒဏ္ဍာရှော န ဘဝတိ ကိန္တု ယး ကၑ္စိတ် တသ္မိန် န ဝိၑွသိတိ သ ဣဒါနီမေဝ ဒဏ္ဍာရှော ဘဝတိ, ယတး သ ဤၑွရသျာဒွိတီယပုတြသျ နာမနိ ပြတျယံ န ကရောတိ၊
Everyone who trusts in his Son, [God says that they] will not be punished {that he will not punish them}. But God has already [said that] everyone who does not trust in his Son will be punished {that he will punish everyone who does not trust in his Son}, because they have not trusted in what his only Son [has done for them].
19 ဇဂတော မဓျေ ဇျောတိး ပြာကာၑတ ကိန္တု မနုၐျာဏာံ ကရ္မ္မဏာံ ဒၖၐ္ဋတွာတ် တေ ဇျောတိၐောပိ တိမိရေ ပြီယန္တေ ဧတဒေဝ ဒဏ္ဍသျ ကာရဏာံ ဘဝတိ၊
The [one who was like a] light [MET] [to reveal God’s truth to us] came into the world. But people loved doing what was [evil, like] darkness [MET] [is evil], instead of loving the [one who was like a] light. That is the reason [God will] judge people [and condemn them].
20 ယး ကုကရ္မ္မ ကရောတိ တသျာစာရသျ ဒၖၐ္ဋတွာတ် သ ဇျောတိရၗတီယိတွာ တန္နိကဋံ နာယာတိ;
Everyone who does what is evil hates the [one who is like a] light, and they will not come to the [one who is like a] light, because it would be shown {[the one who is like a light] would show} that their deeds [are evil, and he would rebuke them].
21 ကိန္တု ယး သတ္ကရ္မ္မ ကရောတိ တသျ သရွွာဏိ ကရ္မ္မာဏီၑွရေဏ ကၖတာနီတိ သထာ ပြကာၑတေ တဒဘိပြာယေဏ သ ဇျောတိၐး သန္နိဓိမ် အာယာတိ၊
But those who live according to [God’s] truth come to the [one who is like a] light, in order that it may be seen clearly {that people may see clearly} that the things they have done, they did them because [they have depended] on God.
22 တတး ပရမ် ယီၑုး ၑိၐျဲး သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ ယိဟူဒီယဒေၑံ ဂတွာ တတြ သ္ထိတွာ မဇ္ဇယိတုမ် အာရဘတ၊
Some time later Jesus and we disciples went to Judea district. He stayed with us there and [directed us as we] baptized people.
23 တဒါ ၑာလမ် နဂရသျ သမီပသ္ထာယိနိ အဲနန် ဂြာမေ ဗဟုတရတောယသ္ထိတေသ္တတြ ယောဟန် အမဇ္ဇယတ် တထာ စ လောကာ အာဂတျ တေန မဇ္ဇိတာ အဘဝန်၊
John [the Baptizer] was also baptizing people. He was doing that at Aenon [village] near Salim [town in Samaria district], because there were many springs in that area. [Many] people kept coming [to John] and were being baptized {he was baptizing them}.
24 တဒါ ယောဟန် ကာရာယာံ န ဗဒ္ဓး၊
That happened before John was put {they put John} in prison.
25 အပရဉ္စ ၑာစကရ္မ္မဏိ ယောဟာနး ၑိၐျဲး သဟ ယိဟူဒီယလောကာနာံ ဝိဝါဒေ ဇာတေ, တေ ယောဟနး သံန္နိဓိံ ဂတွာကထယန်,
Then some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew started arguing about the Jewish rituals of washing things [to make them acceptable to God].
26 ဟေ ဂုရော ယရ္ဒ္ဒနနဒျား ပါရေ ဘဝတာ သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ ယ အာသီတ် ယသ္မိံၑ္စ ဘဝါန် သာက္ၐျံ ပြဒဒါတ် ပၑျတု သောပိ မဇ္ဇယတိ သရွွေ တသျ သမီပံ ယာန္တိ စ၊
Then those disciples went to John and said to him, “Teacher, [do you remember] the man who was with you when you were baptizing people on the other side of the Jordan River? He is the one you were telling us about. Well, now he is baptizing people, and many people are going to him [instead of coming to us]!”
27 တဒါ ယောဟန် ပြတျဝေါစဒ် ဤၑွရေဏ န ဒတ္တေ ကောပိ မနုဇး ကိမပိ ပြာပ္တုံ န ၑက္နောတိ၊
John replied, “A person can become [important] only if God [MTY] permits it. [So] we [should not be jealous about Jesus being popular]!
28 အဟံ အဘိၐိက္တော န ဘဝါမိ ကိန္တု တဒဂြေ ပြေၐိတောသ္မိ ယာမိမာံ ကထာံ ကထိတဝါနာဟံ တတြ ယူယံ သရွွေ သာက္ၐိဏး သ္ထ၊
You yourselves can verify what I said. I told you that I am not (the Messiah/God’s promised king). Instead, I [told you that] I was sent {that [God] sent me} to prepare the way for him.
29 ယော ဇနး ကနျာံ လဘတေ သ ဧဝ ဝရး ကိန္တု ဝရသျ သန္နိဓော် ဒဏ္ဍာယမာနံ တသျ ယန္မိတြံ တေန ဝရသျ ၑဗ္ဒေ ၑြုတေ'တီဝါဟ္လာဒျတေ မမာပိ တဒွဒ် အာနန္ဒသိဒ္ဓိရ္ဇာတာ၊
[Let me illustrate] [MET]: [He is like a] ([bridegroom/man who is being married]), [and I am like his friend]. The friend of the bridegroom stands there and waits [for him to come]. That friend is very happy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice [when he arrives]. Similarly, I am very happy [about what you have told me].
30 တေန ကြမၑော ဝရ္ဒ္ဓိတဝျံ ကိန္တု မယာ ဟ္သိတဝျံ၊
It is necessary for Jesus to become more important [by making more disciples than I have], and for me to become less [important].”
31 ယ ဦရ္ဓွာဒါဂစ္ဆတ် သ သရွွေၐာံ မုချော ယၑ္စ သံသာရာဒ် ဥဒပဒျတ သ သာံသာရိကး သံသာရီယာံ ကထာဉ္စ ကထယတိ ယသ္တု သွရ္ဂာဒါဂစ္ဆတ် သ သရွွေၐာံ မုချး၊
[Jesus] came from heaven. He is more important than anyone else. Those who are born from [parents here] on earth [MTY] are just humans, and they speak about things [that happen here] on the earth. But since Jesus came from heaven, his [words are] more important than anyone else’s.
32 သ ယဒပၑျဒၑၖဏောစ္စ တသ္မိန္နေဝ သာက္ၐျံ ဒဒါတိ တထာပိ ပြာယၑး ကၑ္စိတ် တသျ သာက္ၐျံ န ဂၖဟ္လာတိ;
He tells people what he has seen and what he heard [in heaven], but very few people [HYP] listen to what he says.
33 ကိန္တု ယော ဂၖဟ္လာတိ သ ဤၑွရသျ သတျဝါဒိတွံ မုဒြာင်္ဂိတံ ကရောတိ၊
Those who have accepted what he has said verify that what God has said is true.
34 ဤၑွရေဏ ယး ပြေရိတး သဧဝ ဤၑွရီယကထာံ ကထယတိ ယတ ဤၑွရ အာတ္မာနံ တသ္မဲ အပရိမိတမ် အဒဒါတ်၊
[We know it is true] because [Jesus], the one God sent, speaks the message of God. [That is also true] because God causes his Spirit to live [in Jesus] to completely [direct everything he says and does].
35 ပိတာ ပုတြေ သ္နေဟံ ကၖတွာ တသျ ဟသ္တေ သရွွာဏိ သမရ္ပိတဝါန်၊
God loves his Son, and has caused him to have control/power over everything.
36 ယး ကၑ္စိတ် ပုတြေ ဝိၑွသိတိ သ ဧဝါနန္တမ် ပရမာယုး ပြာပ္နောတိ ကိန္တု ယး ကၑ္စိတ် ပုတြေ န ဝိၑွသိတိ သ ပရမာယုၐော ဒရ္ၑနံ န ပြာပ္နောတိ ကိန္တွီၑွရသျ ကောပဘာဇနံ ဘူတွာ တိၐ္ဌတိ၊ (aiōnios g166)
Those who trust in [God’s] Son have eternal life. But those who reject God’s Son will never have [eternal] life. Instead, God is angry with them [and he will surely punish them]. (aiōnios g166)
