UJohane 17
1 UJesu esekutshilo lokhu, wakhangela ezulwini wakhuleka wathi: “Baba, isikhathi sesifikile. Khazimulisa iNdodana yakho, ukuze iNdodana yakho ikukhazimulise.
Yeshua said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
2 Ngoba wayinika amandla phezu kwabantu bonke ukuthi ibaphe ukuphila okungapheliyo kubo bonke labo obanike yona. (aiōnios g166)
even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. (aiōnios g166)
3 Manje-ke yilokhu ukuphila okungapheliyo: ukuthi bakwazi wena, onguwe wedwa uNkulunkulu weqiniso, loJesu Khristu omthumileyo. (aiōnios g166)
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah. (aiōnios g166)
4 Sengikulethele inkazimulo emhlabeni ngokuphelelisa umsebenzi owanginika wona ukuthi ngiwenze.
I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
5 Manje, Baba, akungikhazimulise phambi kwakho ngaleyonkazimulo esasilayo sobabili umhlaba ungakabi khona.”
Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
6 “Ngikuvezile kulabo owangipha bona emhlabeni. Babengabakho; wangipha bona njalo labo balilalele ilizwi lakho.
“I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
7 Khathesi sebesazi ukuthi konke lokho onginike khona kuvela kuwe.
Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
8 Ngoba ngabanika amazwi owanginika wona bawemukela. Bakwazi ngeqiniso ukuthi ngavela kuwe njalo bakholwa ukuthi ungithumile.
for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
9 Ngikhulekela bona. Kangikhulekeli umhlaba kodwa labo onginike bona ngoba bangabakho.
I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
10 Konke engilakho ngokwakho, lakho konke olakho ngokwami. Lenkazimulo isikimi ngabo.
All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
11 Kangisayikuhlala emhlabeni kusukela khathesi ngoba sengisiza kuwe, kodwa bona balokhu besemhlabeni. Baba Ongcwele, bavikele ngamandla ebizo lakho, ibizo owanginika lona ukuze babemunye njengalokhu thina simunye.
I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
12 Ngesikhathi ngiphakathi kwabo ngabavikela, ngabagcina bephephile ngalelobizo owanginika lona. Kakulahlekanga loyedwa ngaphandle koyedwa owayefanele ukubhubha ukuze kugcwaliseke uMbhalo.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
13 Sengisiza kuwe manje, kodwa ngiyazitsho lezizinto ngisesemhlabeni ukuze babe lentokozo yami ngokugcweleyo ngaphakathi kwabo.
But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
14 Ngibaphile ilizwi lakho ngakho umhlaba usubazonda ngoba bengaseyibo bomhlaba njengoba lami ngingasuye womhlaba.
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 Umkhuleko wami kawusi wokuthi ubasuse emhlabeni, kodwa ukuthi ubavikele komubi.
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
16 Kabasibo bomhlaba, njengoba lami ngingasiwawo.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Bangcwelise ngalo iqiniso; ilizwi lakho liliqiniso.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
18 Njengalokhu wangithuma emhlabeni, lami ngibathumile emhlabeni.
As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
19 Ngenxa yabo ngiyazingcwelisa ukuze labo bangcweliswe ngobuqotho.”
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
20 “Umkhuleko wami kawusiwabo bodwa. Ngikhulekela njalo labo abazakholwa kimi ngenxa yobufakazi babo,
“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,
21 ukuthi bonke babemunye Baba njengoba wena ukimi lami ngikuwe. Sengathi labo bangaba kithi ukuze umhlaba ukholwe ukuthi ungithumile.
that they may all be one; even 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 sent me.
22 Ngibaphile inkazimulo owangipha yona ukuze babemunye njengalokhu thina simunye:
The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one,
23 mina ngibe kubo lawe ukimi. Sengathi bangaba lokumanyana okupheleleyo ukutshengisa umhlaba ukuthi ungithumile njalo ubathandile njengalokhu ungithandile lami.
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
24 Baba, ngifuna ukuthi labo ongiphe bona babe lami lapho engikhona njalo bayibone inkazimulo yami, inkazimulo onginike yona ngoba wangithanda umhlaba ungakadalwa.
Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 Baba olungileyo, loba umhlaba ungakwazi, mina ngiyakwazi, njalo bayakwazi ukuthi ungithumile.
Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
26 Ngikuvezile wena kubo njalo ngizaqhubeka ukwenza ukuthi waziwe ukuze kuthi uthando olalo kimi lube ngolwabo njalo lokuthi mina ngokwami ngibe kubo.”
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
