Yohana 17
1 Baada ya Yesu kusema haya, alitazama kuelekea mbinguni akawaombea na kusema: “Baba, saa imewadia. Umtukuze Mwanao, ili Mwanao apate kukutukuza wewe.
These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you:
2 Kwa kuwa umempa mamlaka juu ya wote wenye mwili ili awape uzima wa milele wale uliompa. (aiōnios g166)
As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him. (aiōnios g166)
3 Nao uzima wa milele ndio huu, wakujue wewe uliye Mungu wa pekee, wa kweli na Yesu Kristo uliyemtuma. (aiōnios g166)
And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (aiōnios g166)
4 Nimekutukuza wewe duniani kwa kuitimiza ile kazi uliyonipa niifanye.
I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which you gave me to do.
5 Hivyo sasa, Baba, unitukuze mbele zako kwa ule utukufu niliokuwa nao pamoja na wewe kabla ulimwengu haujakuwepo.
And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
6 “Nimelidhihirisha jina lako kwa wale ulionipa kutoka ulimwengu. Walikuwa wako, nawe ukanipa mimi, nao wamelitii neno lako.
I have manifested your name unto the men which you gave me out of the world: your they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word. (logos)
7 Sasa wamejua ya kuwa vyote ulivyonipa vimetoka kwako,
Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are of you.
8 kwa kuwa maneno yale ulionipa nimewapa wao, nao wameyapokea na kujua kwamba kweli nimetoka kwako, nao wameamini kuwa wewe ulinituma.
For I have given unto them the words (rhema) which you gave me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me.
9 Ninawaombea wao. Mimi siuombei ulimwengu, bali nawaombea wale ulionipa kwa sababu wao ni wako.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are yours.
10 Wote walio wangu ni wako na walio wako ni wangu, nami nimetukuzwa ndani yao.
And all mine are yours, and your are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 Mimi sasa simo tena ulimwenguni, lakini wao bado wamo ulimwenguni, nami naja kwako. Baba Mtakatifu, uwalinde kwa uweza wa jina lako ulilonipa, ili wawe na umoja kama sisi tulivyo wamoja.
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 Nilipokuwa pamoja nao, niliwalinda, wakawa salama kwa lile jina ulilonipa. Hakuna hata mmoja aliyepotea, isipokuwa yule aliyekusudiwa upotevu, ili Maandiko yapate kutimia.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 “Lakini sasa naja kwako, nami ninasema mambo haya wakati bado nikiwa ulimwenguni, ili wawe na furaha yangu kamili ndani yao.
And now come I to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 Nimewapa neno lako, nao ulimwengu umewachukia kwa kuwa wao si wa ulimwengu kama mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu huu.
I have given them your word; (logos) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 Siombi kwamba uwaondoe ulimwenguni, bali uwalinde dhidi ya yule mwovu.
I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil.
16 Wao si wa ulimwengu huu, kama vile mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Uwatakase kwa ile kweli, neno lako ndilo kweli.
Sanctify them through your truth: your word (logos) is truth.
18 Kama vile ulivyonituma mimi ulimwenguni, nami nawatuma vivyo hivyo.
As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 Kwa ajili yao najiweka wakfu ili wao nao wapate kutakaswa katika ile kweli.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 “Siwaombei hawa peke yao, bali nawaombea na wale wote watakaoniamini kupitia neno lao
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (logos)
21 ili wawe na umoja kama vile wewe Baba ulivyo ndani yangu na mimi nilivyo ndani yako, wao nao wawe ndani yetu, ili ulimwengu upate kuamini ya kuwa wewe ndiye uliyenituma mimi.
That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22 Utukufu ule ulionipa nimewapa wao, ili wawe na umoja kama sisi tulivyo wamoja.
And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 Mimi ndani yako na wewe ndani yangu, ili wawe wamekamilika katika umoja na ulimwengu upate kujua ya kuwa umenituma, nami nimewapenda wao kama unavyonipenda mimi.
I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.
24 “Baba, shauku yangu ni kwamba, wale ulionipa wawe pamoja nami pale nilipo, ili waweze kuuona utukufu wangu, yaani, utukufu ule ulionipa kwa kuwa ulinipenda hata kabla ya kuwekwa misingi ya ulimwengu.
Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 “Baba Mwenye Haki, ingawa ulimwengu haukujui, mimi ninakujua, nao wanajua ya kuwa umenituma.
O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
26 Nimefanya jina lako lijulikane kwao nami nitaendelea kufanya lijulikane, ili kwamba upendo ule unaonipenda mimi uwe ndani yao na mimi mwenyewe nipate kuwa ndani yao.”
And I have declared unto them your name, and will declare it: that the love (agape) wherewith you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
