Jan 7
1 Apre sa, Jezi t'ap mache toupatou nan peyi Galile, li pa t' vle ale nan peyi Jide menm, paske jwif yo t'ap chache touye li.
After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the religious authorities (in Jerusalem) were eager to put him to death.
2 Jou fèt Joupa jwif yo te pre rive.
When the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
3 Frè Jezi yo di l' konsa: Pa rete bò isit la. Ale nan Jide non. Konsa, disip ou yo va wè travay w'ap fè.
his brothers said to him, ‘Leave this part of the country, and go into Judea, so that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you are doing.
4 Yon moun ki vle pou tout moun konnen l' pa dwe travay an kachèt. Avèk travay w'ap fè a, se pou ou kite tout moun wè ou.
For no one does a thing privately, if they are seeking to be widely known. Since you do these things, you should show yourself publicly to the world.’
5 (Men, frè l' yo pa t' kwè nan li.)
For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 Jezi di yo konsa: Lè pa m' lan poko sonnen. Pou nou, tout lè yo bon.
‘My time,’ answered Jesus, ‘is not come yet, but your time is always here.
7 Moun k'ap viv dapre prensip ki nan lemonn pa ka rayi nou. Men, mwen menm yo rayi m' paske mwen di sa y'ap fè a pa bon.
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.
8 Nou mèt al nan fèt la. Mwen menm, mwen pa prale. Paske, lè pa m' lan poko rive.
Go yourselves up to the Festival; I am not going to this Festival yet, because my time has not yet come.’
9 Apre li fin di yo sa, li rete rete l' nan peyi Galile.
After telling them this, he stayed on in Galilee.
10 Apre frè l' yo fin pati al nan fèt la, Jezi ale tou, men an kachèt. Li pa t' kite pesonn wè li.
But, when his brothers had gone up to the Festival, Jesus also went up – not publicly, but privately.
11 Jwif yo menm t'ap chache l' pandan tout fèt la. Yo t'ap di: Kote l' ye konsa?
The authorities were looking for him at the Festival and asking “Where is he?”;
12 Nan tout foul moun yo, yo t'ap pale nan zòrèy sou li anpil. Gen moun ki t'ap di: Se yon nonm debyen wi. Gen lòt ki t'ap di: Non, se pete l'ap pete moun.
and there were many whispers about him among the people, some saying “He is a good man;” others, “No! He is leading the people astray.”
13 Men, pesonn pa t' nonmen non l' fò pou lòt moun pa t' tande, sitèlman yo te pè jwif yo.
No one, however, spoke freely about him, because they were afraid of the authorities.
14 Te rete kat jou ankò pou fèt la te fini, lè Jezi al nan tanp lan. Li kòmanse pale.
About the middle of the Festival week, Jesus went up into the Temple Courts, and began teaching.
15 Jwif yo pa t' manke sezi. Yo t'ap di: Ki jan nonm sa a fè konnen tout bagay sa yo? Li pa janm al lekòl.
The authorities were astonished. ‘How has this man got his learning,’ they asked, ‘when he has never studied?’
16 Jezi reponn yo: Bagay m'ap moutre nou la a, se pa nan mwen yo soti. Yo soti nan Bondye ki voye m' lan.
So, in reply, Jesus said, ‘My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.
17 Si yon moun deside fè sa Bondye vle, la konnen si bagay m'ap moutre yo soti nan Bondye osinon si se pawòl pa m' m'ap pale.
If anyone has the will to do God’s will, they will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.
18 Yon moun k'ap pale pawòl pa l', se chache l'ap chache fè lwanj tèt li. Men, moun k'ap travay pou sa sèvi yon lwanj pou moun ki voye l' la, se verite a pou l' di. Pa gen riz nan li.
The person who speaks on their own authority seeks honour for themselves; but the one who seeks the honour of him who sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.
19 Moyiz te ban nou Lalwa a, pa vre? Men, nou yonn pa obeyi Lalwa. Poukisa n'ap chache touye mwen?
Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?’
20 Foul moun yo reponn li: Gen lè ou gen yon move lespri sou ou? Ki moun k'ap chache touye ou la a?
‘You must be possessed by a demon!’ the people exclaimed. ‘Who is seeking to put you to death?’
21 Jezi reponn yo: Mwen fè yon sèl bagay, epi nou tout nou sezi pou sa!
‘There was one thing I did,’ replied Jesus, ‘at which you are all still wondering.
22 Moyiz ban nou lòd pou nou sikonsi tout ti gason, epi nou dakò pou yo sikonsi yon moun gwo jou repo a. (Men, kite m' di nou: se pa t' Moyiz ki te kòmanse ak sikonsizyon an non, se te zansèt nou yo.)
But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you – not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors – and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.
23 Si nou ka sikonsi yon ti gason jou repo a pou n' ka fè sa Lalwa Moyiz la mande a, pa gen rezon pou n' ankòlè sou mwen si m' geri yon moun ki te malad nan tout kò l', yon jou repo.
When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?
24 Pa jije sou laparans. Jije dapre sa ki dwat.
Do not judge by appearances; judge justly.’
25 Lè sa a, te gen kèk moun Jerizalèm ki t'ap di: Apa nonm y'ap chache touye a?
At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed, ‘Is not this the man who they are seeking to put to death?
26 Gade l'ap pale lib devan tout moun, yo pa di l' anyen. Gen lè chèf nou yo rekonèt se Kris la vre li ye!
Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered that he is the Christ?
27 Men, yo toujou di lè Kris la va rive, pesonn p'ap konnen ki bò l' soti. Men nonm sa a, nou konnen ki bò l' soti.
Yet we know where this man is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell where he is from.’
28 Jezi t'ap moutre moun yo anpil bagay nan tanp lan. Li di yo byen fò: Nou rekonèt mwen? Nou konnen ki bò m' soti? Se pa mwen ki fè lide pou m' vini non. Moun ki voye m' lan, li la tout bon. Men, nou pa konnen li.
Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said, ‘Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.
29 Mwen menm, mwen konnen l', paske se bò kote l' mwen soti. Se li menm ki voye mwen.
I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his messenger.’
30 Lè sa a, yo t'ap chache arete l', men pesonn pa t' mete men sou li paske lè l' pa t' ankò rive.
So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.
31 Atousa, te gen anpil moun nan foul pèp la ki te kwè nan li. Yo t'ap di: Lè Kris la va vini, èske la fè plis mirak pase nonm sa a?
Many of the people, however, believed in him. ‘When the Christ comes,’ they said, ‘will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?’
32 Farizyen yo vin konnen sa yo t'ap di nan zòrèy sou Jezi nan pèp la. Chèf prèt yo ansanm ak farizyen yo voye kèk gad pou arete Jezi.
The Pharisees heard the people whispering about him in this way, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him;
33 Jezi di konsa: Se pou yon ti tan ankò mwen la ak nou. Apre sa, mwen pral jwenn moun ki voye m' lan.
at which Jesus said, ‘I will be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
34 N'a chache m', men nou p'ap jwenn mwen, paske nou p'ap ka vini kote m' prale a.
You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I will be.’
35 Jwif yo yonn t'ap mande lòt: Ki bò l' prale menm pou nou pa kapab jwenn li? Eske li pral menm kote ak jwif ki gaye nan mitan moun Lagrès yo pou l' moutre moun Lagrès yo anpil bagay?
‘Where is this man going,’ the people asked one another, ‘that we would not find him? Will he go to our countrymen abroad, and teach foreigners?
36 L'ap plede di: N'a chache m', men nou p'ap jwenn mwen. Nou pa ka vini kote mwen prale a. Kisa sa vle di menm?
What does he mean by saying “You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I will be”?’
37 Dènye jou fèt la, se li ki te pi enpòtan. Jou sa a, Jezi kanpe devan foul moun yo, li di yo byen fò: Si yon moun swaf dlo, li mèt vin jwenn mwen, li mèt vin bwè.
On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed, ‘If anyone is thirsty, they should come to me and drink.
38 Moun ki mete konfyans yo nan mwen, y'ap wè gwo kouran dlo k'ap bay lavi koule soti nan kè yo, jan sa ekri nan Liv la.
From the heart of those who believe in me will flow, as is said in scripture, rivers of living water.’
39 (Jezi t'ap pale ki jan moun ki kwè nan li yo tapral resevwa Sentespri. Lè sa a, Sentespri pa t' ankò desann sou pesonn, paske Jezi pa t' ankò moute nan syèl la.)
(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)
40 Te gen kèk moun nan foul pèp la, lè yo fin tande pawòl sa yo, yo t'ap di konsa: Se vre wi. Nonm sa a, se pwofèt la!
Some of the people, when they heard these words, said, ‘This is certainly the Prophet!’;
41 Gen lòt ki t'ap di: Se Kris la. Gen lòt ankò ki t'ap di: Men, Kris la pa ka soti nan peyi Galile.
others said, ‘the Christ!’; but some asked, ‘What! Does the Christ come from Galilee?
42 Liv la di: Kris la, se yon pitit pitit David la ye. Se Betleyèm li gen pou l' soti, lavil kote David te pase tout lavi li a.
Is not it said in scripture that it is of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?’
43 Te vin gen divizyon nan mitan foul moun yo poutèt Jezi.
So there was a sharp division among the people because of Jesus.
44 Gen ladan yo ki te vle arete l', men pesonn pa t' mete men sou li.
Some of them wanted to arrest him, and yet no one touched him.
45 Lè gad yo tounen vin jwenn yo, chèf prèt yo ak farizyen yo mande yo: Poukisa nou pa mennen l' ban nou?
When the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, ‘Why have you not brought him?’
46 Gad yo reponn: Nou poko janm wè yon nonm ki pale tankou nonm sa a.
‘No one ever spoke as he speaks!’ they answered.
47 Farizyen yo di: Gen lè nou kite l' pran tèt nou tou?
‘What! Have you been led astray too?’ the Pharisees replied.
48 Eske nou wè gen yon sèl nan chèf nou yo osinon nan farizyen yo ki kwè nan li?
‘Have any of our leading men believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?
49 Moun sa yo gen lè pa konn lalwa Moyiz la. Se moun ki gen madichon!
As for these people who do not know the Law – they are cursed!’
50 Nikodèm te yonn nan farizyen ki te la yo. Se menm Nikodèm sa a ki te al wè Jezi kèk jou pase. Li di yo konsa:
But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them,
51 Dapre Lalwa nou, nou pa ka jije yon moun san nou pa tande l' anvan, san nou pa konnen sa l' fè.
‘Does our Law pass judgment on a person without first giving them a hearing, and finding out what they have been doing?’
52 Yo reponn li: Gen lè, ou menm tou, ou se moun Galile? Al etidye sa ki ekri nan Liv la, wa wè pa gen pwofèt ki janm soti nan peyi Galile.
‘Are you also from Galilee?’ they retorted. ‘Search, and you will find that no prophet is to arise in Galilee!’
53 Apre sa, tout moun al lakay yo.
And everyone went home
