Yohana 17
1 Baada ya Yesu kusema haya, alitazama kuelekea mbinguni akawaombea na kusema: “Baba, saa imewadia. Umtukuze Mwanao, ili Mwanao apate kukutukuza wewe.
When Jesus had ended this discourse, he said, lifting up his eyes to heaven, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee;
2 Kwa kuwa umempa mamlaka juu ya wote wenye mwili ili awape uzima wa milele wale uliompa. (aiōnios g166)
as thou hast given him authority over all men, that he may bestow eternal life, on all those whom thou hast 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)
Now this is the life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus, the Messiah, thy Apostle. (aiōnios g166)
4 Nimekutukuza wewe duniani kwa kuitimiza ile kazi uliyonipa niifanye.
I have glorified thee upon the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5 Hivyo sasa, Baba, unitukuze mbele zako kwa ule utukufu niliokuwa nao pamoja na wewe kabla ulimwengu haujakuwepo.
And now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence, with that glory which I enjoyed with thee, before the world was.
6 “Nimelidhihirisha jina lako kwa wale ulionipa kutoka ulimwengu. Walikuwa wako, nawe ukanipa mimi, nao wamelitii neno lako.
I have made known thy name to the men whom those hast given me of the world. They were thine; and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.
7 Sasa wamejua ya kuwa vyote ulivyonipa vimetoka kwako,
Whatsoever thou hast given me, they now know to have come from thee;
8 kwa kuwa maneno yale ulionipa nimewapa wao, nao wameyapokea na kujua kwamba kweli nimetoka kwako, nao wameamini kuwa wewe ulinituma.
and that thou hast imparted to me the doctrine, which I have imparted to them. They have received it, knowing for certain, that I came forth from thee, and am commissioned by thee.
9 Ninawaombea wao. Mimi siuombei ulimwengu, bali nawaombea wale ulionipa kwa sababu wao ni wako.
It is for them that I pray. I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; because they are thine.
10 Wote walio wangu ni wako na walio wako ni wangu, nami nimetukuzwa ndani yao.
And all mine are thine, and thine 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.
I continue no longer in the world; but these continue in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, preserve them in thy name, whom thou hast 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 thy name; those whom thou hast given me, I have preserved. None of them in lost, except the son of perdition, as the scripture foretold.
13 “Lakini sasa naja kwako, nami ninasema mambo haya wakati bado nikiwa ulimwenguni, ili wawe na furaha yangu kamili ndani yao.
But now that I am coming to thee, I speak these things in the world, that their joy in me may be complete.
14 Nimewapa neno lako, nao ulimwengu umewachukia kwa kuwa wao si wa ulimwengu kama mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu huu.
I have delivered thy word to them, and the world hates 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 do not pray thee to remove them out of the world, but to preserve them from evil.
16 Wao si wa ulimwengu huu, kama vile mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu.
Of the world they are not, as I am not of the world.
17 Uwatakase kwa ile kweli, neno lako ndilo kweli.
Consecrate them by the truth; thy word is the truth.
18 Kama vile ulivyonituma mimi ulimwenguni, nami nawatuma vivyo hivyo.
As thou hast made me thy Apostle to the world, I have made them my Apostles to the world.
19 Kwa ajili yao najiweka wakfu ili wao nao wapate kutakaswa katika ile kweli.
And I consecrate myself for them, that they may be consecrated through the truth.
20 “Siwaombei hawa peke yao, bali nawaombea na wale wote watakaoniamini kupitia neno lao
Nor do I pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through their teaching;
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 all may be one; that as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me;
22 Utukufu ule ulionipa nimewapa wao, ili wawe na umoja kama sisi tulivyo wamoja.
and that thou gavest me the glory, which I have given them; that they may be one, 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 thou in me, that their union may be perfected; that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou lovest them, as thou lovest 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 would that where I shall be, those whom thou hast given me may be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou gavest me, because thou lovedst me before the formation of the world.
25 “Baba Mwenye Haki, ingawa ulimwengu haukujui, mimi ninakujua, nao wanajua ya kuwa umenituma.
Righteous Father, though the world knows not thee, I know thee; and these know that I have thy commission.
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 to them I have communicated, and will communicate thy name: that I being in them, they may share in the love with which thou lovest me.
