ယောဟနး 1
1 အာဒေါ် ဝါဒ အာသီတ် သ စ ဝါဒ ဤၑွရေဏ သာရ္ဓမာသီတ် သ ဝါဒး သွယမီၑွရ ဧဝ၊
The one who expresses [MET] ([God’s character/what God is like]) has always existed (from the beginning [MTY] [of everything/before everything began]). He has always existed with God, and he has God’s nature.
2 သ အာဒါဝီၑွရေဏ သဟာသီတ်၊
He always existed with God [before] he began [MTY] [to create anything].
3 တေန သရွွံ ဝသ္တု သသၖဇေ သရွွေၐု သၖၐ္ဋဝသ္တုၐု ကိမပိ ဝသ္တု တေနာသၖၐ္ဋံ နာသ္တိ၊
He is the one by whom [God] caused everything to exist. He is the one who created absolutely everything [LIT].
4 သ ဇီဝနသျာကာရး, တစ္စ ဇီဝနံ မနုၐျာဏာံ ဇျောတိး
He is the one who [caused everything to] live. He, who caused us people to live, [revealed to us the truth about God as] a light [MET] [reveals what is in the darkness].
5 တဇ္ဇျောတိရန္ဓကာရေ ပြစကာၑေ ကိန္တွန္ဓကာရသ္တန္န ဇဂြာဟ၊
People do not want him to reveal [that what they do is evil] [MET], just [like] darkness [is evil]. But [just like] darkness cannot put out light [MET], [evil people have never prevented the one who was like a light from revealing God’s truth] (OR, [evil people have never] understood the [one who was like] a light.)
6 ယောဟန် နာမက ဧကော မနုဇ ဤၑွရေဏ ပြေၐယာဉ္စကြေ၊
A man whose name was John was sent by God {God sent a man whose name was John}.
7 တဒွါရာ ယထာ သရွွေ ဝိၑွသန္တိ တဒရ္ထံ သ တဇ္ဇျောတိၐိ ပြမာဏံ ဒါတုံ သာက္ၐိသွရူပေါ ဘူတွာဂမတ်,
He came to tell people [about the one who was like] [MET] a light. He came to show that everything that the [one who was like a light] [MET] said was true, in order that he could enable all people to believe [in the one who was like a light].
8 သ သွယံ တဇ္ဇျောတိ ရ္န ကိန္တု တဇ္ဇျောတိၐိ ပြမာဏံ ဒါတုမာဂမတ်၊
John himself was not the [one who was like a] light [MET]. Instead, he came to tell others about that [one who was like a] light.
9 ဇဂတျာဂတျ ယး သရွွမနုဇေဘျော ဒီပ္တိံ ဒဒါတိ တဒေဝ သတျဇျောတိး၊
[While John was doing that], the one who was truly [like] a light was about to show himself to the world. He was the one who enables all people [to know about God, as] a light [MET] enables [people to know what is in the darkness].
10 သ ယဇ္ဇဂဒသၖဇတ် တန္မဒျ ဧဝ သ အာသီတ် ကိန္တု ဇဂတော လောကာသ္တံ နာဇာနန်၊
Although the one [who was like a light] was [here] on the earth, and although he was the one whom [God] caused to create everything, [most] people [MTY, HYP] did not realize who he [was]. (OR, although he was the one whom [God] caused to create everything, [most] people did not accept him.)
11 နိဇာဓိကာရံ သ အာဂစ္ဆတ် ကိန္တု ပြဇာသ္တံ နာဂၖဟ္လန်၊
Although he came to the land that belonged to him [because he created it, most of] his own people, [the Jews], rejected him (OR, did not accept him).
12 တထာပိ ယေ ယေ တမဂၖဟ္လန် အရ္ထာတ် တသျ နာမ္နိ ဝျၑွသန် တေဘျ ဤၑွရသျ ပုတြာ ဘဝိတုမ် အဓိကာရမ် အဒဒါတ်၊
But those [of us who welcomed him, God] authorized [that we would have a relationship with] him [MET] [like] children [have a relationship with their father]. We were people who believed [that what he said] about himself [MTY] [was true].
13 တေၐာံ ဇနိး ၑောဏိတာန္န ၑာရီရိကာဘိလာၐာန္န မာနဝါနာမိစ္ဆာတော န ကိန္တွီၑွရာဒဘဝတ်၊
We became [like God’s children], not because our ancestors [belonged to God], or because of someone’s sexual desires, nor because some man desired to have children like himself. Instead, we were caused by God {God caused us} to become [like] his children.
14 သ ဝါဒေါ မနုၐျရူပေဏာဝတီရျျ သတျတာနုဂြဟာဘျာံ ပရိပူရ္ဏး သန် သာရ္ဓမ် အသ္မာဘိ ရ္နျဝသတ် တတး ပိတုရဒွိတီယပုတြသျ ယောဂျော ယော မဟိမာ တံ မဟိမာနံ တသျာပၑျာမ၊
The one who expresses [MET] ([God’s character/what God is like]) became a human being, and he lived among us [for a while]. As a result, we saw how wonderful he is. He came from [God] his father, and there was no other person as wonderful as he. He was wonderful because he always acted (kindly toward us/in ways we did not deserve), and he always [spoke] truthfully to us [about God].
15 တတော ယောဟနပိ ပြစာရျျ သာက္ၐျမိဒံ ဒတ္တဝါန် ယော မမ ပၑ္စာဒ် အာဂမိၐျတိ သ မတ္တော ဂုရုတရး; ယတော မတ္ပူရွွံ သ ဝိဒျမာန အာသီတ်; ယဒရ္ထမ် အဟံ သာက္ၐျမိဒမ် အဒါံ သ ဧၐး၊
[One day] when John was telling people about him, [he saw Jesus]. Then he shouted to them, “I told you [previously] that someone will come later who is more important than I am, since he existed [long] before me. This [is the man I was talking about]!”
16 အပရဉ္စ တသျ ပူရ္ဏတာယာ ဝယံ သရွွေ ကြမၑး ကြမၑောနုဂြဟံ ပြာပ္တား၊
We have all benefited very much from what he has done. Again and again, he has acted in kind way toward us in ways we did not deserve.
17 မူသာဒွါရာ ဝျဝသ္ထာ ဒတ္တာ ကိန္တွနုဂြဟး သတျတွဉ္စ ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋဒွါရာ သမုပါတိၐ္ဌတာံ၊
Moses proclaimed [God’s] laws [to our ancestors]. But what Jesus Christ did for us [was much better]. He acted in kindness toward us in ways we did not deserve and told us the truth [about God].
18 ကောပိ မနုဇ ဤၑွရံ ကဒါပိ နာပၑျတ် ကိန္တု ပိတုး ကြောဍသ္ထော'ဒွိတီယး ပုတြသ္တံ ပြကာၑယတ်၊
No one has ever seen God. But God’s only Son, [Jesus], who has always had a very close relationship with God, has told us about God.
19 တွံ ကး? ဣတိ ဝါကျံ ပြေၐ္ဋုံ ယဒါ ယိဟူဒီယလောကာ ယာဇကာန် လေဝိလောကာံၑ္စ ယိရူၑာလမော ယောဟနး သမီပေ ပြေၐယာမာသုး,
The Jewish [leaders] [SYN] in Jerusalem [city] sent some [Jewish] priests and (Levites/men who worked in the temple) to where John was, to ask him some questions. They said to him, “What do you [claim about] yourself?”
20 တဒါ သ သွီကၖတဝါန် နာပဟ္နူတဝါန် နာဟမ် အဘိၐိက္တ ဣတျင်္ဂီကၖတဝါန်၊
So John told them the truth, and he told them clearly [DOU]. He said, “[I] am not (the Messiah/God’s chosen king)!”
21 တဒါ တေ'ပၖစ္ဆန် တရှိ ကော ဘဝါန်? ကိံ ဧလိယး? သောဝဒတ် န; တတသ္တေ'ပၖစ္ဆန် တရှိ ဘဝါန် သ ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒီ? သောဝဒတ် နာဟံ သး၊
Then they asked him, “Then what [do you say about yourself]? Are you [the prophet] Elijah [that was prophesied to return] {([someone/another prophet]) [prophesied would return]} [before the Messiah]?” He replied, “No, [I] am not.” Then they asked him, “Are you the prophet [like Moses that] ([we are waiting for/God promised to send])?” He replied, “No.”
22 တဒါ တေ'ပၖစ္ဆန် တရှိ ဘဝါန် ကး? ဝယံ ဂတွာ ပြေရကာန် တွယိ ကိံ ဝက္ၐျာမး? သွသ္မိန် ကိံ ဝဒသိ?
So they asked him, “Then who do you [claim to be]? [Tell us] so that we can [go back and] report to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23 တဒါ သောဝဒတ်၊ ပရမေၑသျ ပန္ထာနံ ပရိၐ္ကုရုတ သရွွတး၊ ဣတီဒံ ပြာန္တရေ ဝါကျံ ဝဒတး ကသျစိဒြဝး၊ ကထာမိမာံ ယသ္မိန် ယိၑယိယော ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒီ လိခိတဝါန် သောဟမ်၊
John replied, “[I] am the one [the prophet Isaiah said] would proclaim [this new message] loudly [to the people who would pass by] in this desolate area: ‘Prepare [yourselves to receive] the Lord when he comes [MET], [just like people prepare] a road [for an important official].
24 ယေ ပြေၐိတာသ္တေ ဖိရူၑိလောကား၊
Some of those people [who were questioning] John were ones who had been sent by the Pharisee [religious group] {whom the Pharisee [religious group] had sent}.
25 တဒါ တေ'ပၖစ္ဆန် ယဒိ နာဘိၐိက္တောသိ ဧလိယောသိ န သ ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒျပိ နာသိ စ, တရှိ လောကာန် မဇ္ဇယသိ ကုတး?
They asked John, “Since [you say] you are not the Messiah, nor [the prophet] Elijah, nor the prophet [like Moses], [what authority] do you have? [Furthermore], why are you baptizing [Jews, treating them as though they were non-Jews who wanted to become Jews]?”
26 တတော ယောဟန် ပြတျဝေါစတ်, တောယေ'ဟံ မဇ္ဇယာမီတိ သတျံ ကိန္တု ယံ ယူယံ န ဇာနီထ တာဒၖၑ ဧကော ဇနော ယုၐ္မာကံ မဓျ ဥပတိၐ္ဌတိ၊
John replied, “I am [just] baptizing people with water [to prepare them to welcome the Messiah]. But [right now] someone is among you whom you people do not know.
27 သ မတ္ပၑ္စာဒ် အာဂတောပိ မတ္ပူရွွံ ဝရ္တ္တမာန အာသီတ် တသျ ပါဒုကာဗန္ဓနံ မောစယိတုမပိ နာဟံ ယောဂျောသ္မိ၊
He [will preach to you] after I [am gone]. [He is so important that] I am not worthy to [serve him as a slave] [MET] [by] untying his sandals.”
28 ယရ္ဒ္ဒနနဒျား ပါရသ္ထဗဲထဗာရာယာံ ယသ္မိန္သ္ထာနေ ယောဟနမဇ္ဇယတ် တသ္မိန သ္ထာနေ သရွွမေတဒ် အဃဋတ၊
Those things happened at [a place called] Bethany, on the [east] side of the Jordan [River], where John was baptizing people.
29 ပရေ'ဟနိ ယောဟန် သွနိကဋမာဂစ္ဆန္တံ ယိၑုံ ဝိလောကျ ပြာဝေါစတ် ဇဂတး ပါပမောစကမ် ဤၑွရသျ မေၐၑာဝကံ ပၑျတ၊
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him. He said to the people, “Look! Here is the [man whom] God [has appointed to be a sacrifice] [MET], [like] the lambs [that the people of Israel sacrificed! By sacrificing himself] he will [make it possible for everyone in] the world to be no longer [guilty for having] sinned.
30 ယော မမ ပၑ္စာဒါဂမိၐျတိ သ မတ္တော ဂုရုတရး, ယတော ဟေတောရ္မတ္ပူရွွံ သော'ဝရ္တ္တတ ယသ္မိန္နဟံ ကထာမိမာံ ကထိတဝါန် သ ဧဝါယံ၊
He is the one about whom I said [before], ‘Someone will come later who is more important than I am, since he existed [long] before me.’
31 အပရံ နာဟမေနံ ပြတျဘိဇ္ဉာတဝါန် ကိန္တု ဣသြာယေလ္လောကာ ဧနံ ယထာ ပရိစိနွန္တိ တဒဘိပြာယေဏာဟံ ဇလေ မဇ္ဇယိတုမာဂစ္ဆမ်၊
I myself did not [previously] recognize that he [was the Messiah]. But [now I know who he is], and I have baptized people with water to enable [you people of] Israel to recognize who he is.”
32 ပုနၑ္စ ယောဟနပရမေကံ ပြမာဏံ ဒတွာ ကထိတဝါန် ဝိဟာယသး ကပေါတဝဒ် အဝတရန္တမာတ္မာနမ် အသျောပရျျဝတိၐ္ဌန္တံ စ ဒၖၐ္ဋဝါနဟမ်၊
John spoke clearly [what God had shown him about Jesus]. He said, “I saw [God’s] Spirit as he was descending from heaven in the form of a dove. The Spirit remained on Jesus.
33 နာဟမေနံ ပြတျဘိဇ္ဉာတဝါန် ဣတိ သတျံ ကိန္တု ယော ဇလေ မဇ္ဇယိတုံ မာံ ပြဲရယတ် သ ဧဝေမာံ ကထာမကထယတ် ယသျောပရျျာတ္မာနမ် အဝတရန္တမ် အဝတိၐ္ဌန္တဉ္စ ဒြက္ၐယသိ သဧဝ ပဝိတြေ အာတ္မနိ မဇ္ဇယိၐျတိ၊
I myself did not know [previously] that he [was the Messiah]. However, [God] sent me to baptize people with water, [people who said they wanted to turn from their sinful ways. While I was doing that], God told me, ‘The man on whom you will see my Spirit descend and remain is the one who will put the Holy Spirit within you [(pl) to truly change your lives].’
34 အဝသ္တန္နိရီက္ၐျာယမ် ဤၑွရသျ တနယ ဣတိ ပြမာဏံ ဒဒါမိ၊
I saw [the Spirit descend on him], and I tell you that he is (the Son of God/the person who is both God and man).”
35 ပရေ'ဟနိ ယောဟန် ဒွါဘျာံ ၑိၐျာဘျာံ သာရ္ဒ္ဓေံ တိၐ္ဌန္
The next day John was at the same place again (with two of us/with two of his disciples).
36 ယိၑုံ ဂစ္ဆန္တံ ဝိလောကျ ဂဒိတဝါန်, ဤၑွရသျ မေၐၑာဝကံ ပၑျတံ၊
When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look! There is the man God [has appointed to be a sacrifice, like] the lambs [MET] [the people of Israel have sacrificed!]”
37 ဣမာံ ကထာံ ၑြုတွာ ဒွေါ် ၑိၐျော် ယီၑေား ပၑ္စာဒ် ဤယတုး၊
(When we/those two disciples) heard John say this, we/they went with Jesus.
38 တတော ယီၑုး ပရာဝၖတျ တော် ပၑ္စာဒ် အာဂစ္ဆန္တော် ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ ပၖၐ္ဋဝါန် ယုဝါံ ကိံ ဂဝေၑယထး? တာဝပၖစ္ဆတာံ ဟေ ရဗ္ဗိ အရ္ထာတ် ဟေ ဂုရော ဘဝါန် ကုတြ တိၐ္ဌတိ?
Jesus turned around and saw us/them coming behind him. So he asked us/them, “What do you want?” We/They replied, “Teacher, [tell us] where you are staying, [because we want to talk with you].”
39 တတး သောဝါဒိတ် ဧတျ ပၑျတံ၊ တတော ဒိဝသသျ တၖတီယပြဟရသျ ဂတတွာတ် တော် တဒ္ဒိနံ တသျ သင်္ဂေ'သ္ထာတာံ၊
He replied, “Come [with me], and you will see [where I am staying]!” So we/they went with him and saw where he was staying. We/They stayed with him until about 4 o’clock (OR, from about 4 PM until the next day).
40 ယော် ဒွေါ် ယောဟနော ဝါကျံ ၑြုတွာ ယိၑေား ပၑ္စာဒ် အာဂမတာံ တယေား ၑိမောန္ပိတရသျ ဘြာတာ အာန္ဒြိယး
(One of us/One of the two men) who heard what John had said and who went with Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s [younger] brother.
41 သ ဣတွာ ပြထမံ နိဇသောဒရံ ၑိမောနံ သာက္ၐာတ္ပြာပျ ကထိတဝါန် ဝယံ ခြီၐ္ဋမ် အရ္ထာတ် အဘိၐိက္တပုရုၐံ သာက္ၐာတ္ကၖတဝန္တး၊
[After Andrew left Jesus], the first thing he did was to find his own [older] brother Simon and say to him, “We have found the Messiah!”
42 ပၑ္စာတ် သ တံ ယိၑေား သမီပမ် အာနယတ်၊ တဒါ ယီၑုသ္တံ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာဝဒတ် တွံ ယူနသး ပုတြး ၑိမောန် ကိန္တု တွန္နာမဓေယံ ကဲဖား ဝါ ပိတရး အရ္ထာတ် ပြသ္တရော ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
Then he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him, and then said, “You are Simon. Your father’s name is John. You will be given {[I] will give you} the name Cephas.” [Cephas is an Aramaic name that means ‘solid rock’. It] means [the same in Greek as the name] Peter.
43 ပရေ'ဟနိ ယီၑော် ဂါလီလံ ဂန္တုံ နိၑ္စိတစေတသိ သတိ ဖိလိပနာမာနံ ဇနံ သာက္ၐာတ္ပြာပျာဝေါစတ် မမ ပၑ္စာဒ် အာဂစ္ဆ၊
The next day [Jesus] decided to leave [the Jordan River valley]. He went to Galilee [district] and (OR, on the way there he) found a man named Philip. Jesus said to him, “Come with me!”
44 ဗဲတ္သဲဒါနာမ္နိ ယသ္မိန် ဂြာမေ ပိတရာန္ဒြိယယောရွာသ အာသီတ် တသ္မိန် ဂြာမေ တသျ ဖိလိပသျ ဝသတိရာသီတ်၊
Philip and Andrew and Peter were all from Bethsaida [town].
45 ပၑ္စာတ် ဖိလိပေါ နိထနေလံ သာက္ၐာတ္ပြာပျာဝဒတ် မူသာ ဝျဝသ္ထာ ဂြန္ထေ ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိနာံ ဂြန္ထေၐု စ ယသျာချာနံ လိခိတမာသ္တေ တံ ယူၐဖး ပုတြံ နာသရတီယံ ယီၑုံ သာက္ၐာဒ် အကာရ္ၐ္မ ဝယံ၊
Then Philip [searched for] Nathaniel and found him, and said to him, “We have met [the Messiah], the one Moses [wrote about]! The prophets also [prophesied that he would come]. He is Jesus, from Nazareth [town]. His father’s name is Joseph.”
46 တဒါ နိထနေလ် ကထိတဝါန် နာသရန္နဂရာတ ကိံ ကၑ္စိဒုတ္တမ ဥတ္ပန္တုံ ၑက္နောတိ? တတး ဖိလိပေါ 'ဝေါစတ် ဧတျ ပၑျ၊
Nathaniel replied, “Nazareth? (Nothing good can come from [such an unimportant place]!/Can anything good come from [such an unimportant place]?) [RHQ]” Philip replied, “Come and see!”
47 အပရဉ္စ ယီၑုး သွသျ သမီပံ တမ် အာဂစ္ဆန္တံ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ ဝျာဟၖတဝါန်, ပၑျာယံ နိၐ္ကပဋး သတျ ဣသြာယေလ္လောကး၊
When Jesus saw Nathaniel approaching, he said about Nathaniel, “Here is an example of a good Israelite! He never deceives anyone!”
48 တတး သောဝဒဒ်, ဘဝါန် မာံ ကထံ ပြတျဘိဇာနာတိ? ယီၑုရဝါဒီတ် ဖိလိပသျ အာဟွာနာတ် ပူရွွံ ယဒါ တွမုဍုမ္ဗရသျ တရောရ္မူလေ'သ္ထာသ္တဒါ တွာမဒရ္ၑမ်၊
Nathaniel asked him, “How do you know what I [am like]?” Jesus replied, “I saw you before Philip called you, when you were [by yourself] under the fig tree.”
49 နိထနေလ် အစကထတ်, ဟေ ဂုရော ဘဝါန် နိတာန္တမ် ဤၑွရသျ ပုတြောသိ, ဘဝါန် ဣသြာယေလွံၑသျ ရာဇာ၊
Then Nathaniel declared, “Teacher, you [must be] (the Son of God/the person who is both God and man)! You are the King of Israel [we have been waiting for]!”
50 တတော ယီၑု ရွျာဟရတ်, တွာမုဍုမ္ဗရသျ ပါဒပသျ မူလေ ဒၖၐ္ဋဝါနာဟံ မမဲတသ္မာဒွါကျာတ် ကိံ တွံ ဝျၑွသီး? ဧတသ္မာဒပျာၑ္စရျျာဏိ ကာရျျာဏိ ဒြက္ၐျသိ၊
Jesus replied to him, “You [RHQ] believe [those things about me] because I told you I saw you when you were under the fig tree. [I was able to see you supernaturally even though I was far away from you]. But you will see [me do] things that are more surprising than that!”
51 အနျစ္စာဝါဒီဒ် ယုၐ္မာနဟံ ယထာရ္ထံ ဝဒါမိ, ဣတး ပရံ မောစိတေ မေဃဒွါရေ တသ္မာန္မနုဇသူနုနာ ဤၑွရသျ ဒူတဂဏမ် အဝရောဟန္တမာရောဟန္တဉ္စ ဒြက္ၐျထ၊
Then Jesus said to him, “This is the absolute truth: [Just like what your ancestor Jacob saw long ago in a vision], some day you [(pl)] will see heaven opened up, and you will see God’s angels ascending from me and descending on me, the one who came from heaven.”
