John 14
1 [Jesus continued by saying to us], “Stop being anxious/worried. Keep on trusting in God (OR, You are trusting in God); also keep trusting in me.
Yesu walambila beshikwiya bakendi, “Myoyo yenu kaitashupika. Kamushomani Lesa, kayi mushome nenjame.
2 Where my Father is [in heaven] there is plenty of room! If that were not true, I would have told you. I am about to go [there] to prepare a place for you.
munga'nda muli Bata muli bipinda bingi yakwikalamo necabula kubeco, nendalamwambila. Ndenga akumubambila misena.
3 And because I will go [there] and prepare a place for you, I will return and take you there to be with me. I will do that so that you may also be where I am.
Lino ndakapwisha kumubambila misena, ninkabwele kwisakumumanta, kwambeti mukabenga nkweshinkabenga.
4 You know the road to the place where I am going.”
Cakubinga nkondenga mukwinshi, nenshila muyinshi.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. [So] how can we know the road?”
Tomasi walambeti, “Mwami, nkatukwinshi nkomulenga, nomba nshila yakwilako ngatuyinshibaconi?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the road [MET] [to where my Father is]. I am the [one who reveals] [MET] the truth [about God] and the [one who gives eternal] life [to people]. I am the only one who can [enable people] to come to [my] Father. There is no other way.
Yesu walamukumbuleti, “ame njame nshila, kayi njame cancine ncine nebuyumi. Paliya muntu welakuya kuli Bata, kwakubula kupitila muli njame.
7 If you [really] knew who I was, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and [it is as though] you have seen him.”
Pakwinga nemunjishi, nemwabeshiba Bata. Kufumina lelo mulabenshibi kayi mulababono.”
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us your Father and that will be enough for us!”
Filipo walambeti, “Mwami tulesheni Bata kwambeti tushome.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Philip, I have been with you for a long time. So (surely you should know who I [really am]!/why have you not come to know who I [really am]?) [RHQ] Those who have seen me, [it is as though] they have seen [my] Father. So (why do you say ‘Show us [your] Father’?/you should not say ‘Show us [your] Father’!) [RHQ]
Yesu walamukumbuleti, “Filipo, ndekala nenu cindi citali, nomba nkotana unjinshiba? Labono ame elababono Bata. Nomba nicani ulambangeti, ‘Kotulesha Baiso?
10 Do you not [RHQ] believe that I have a close relationship with [my] Father, and that [my] Father has a close relationship with me? The messages that I tell you do not come from me. They come from my Father, who has a close relationship with me. He is enabling me to [teach these things, and] to perform the miracles that he [wants me to perform].
Sena nkaulashomonga kwambeti ame nkute kwikala muli Bata, kayi Bata bakute kwikala muli njame? Maswi ngonkute kumwambila nkakute kufuma kuli njame ndenka sobwe, nsombi Bata abakute kwikala muli njame, endibo bakute kwinsa bintu byonsebi.
11 Believe that I have a close relationship with [my] Father and that [my] Father has a close relationship with me. If you do not believe that just because of what I say, believe it because of the miracles themselves [that I have done].
Kamunshomani kwambeti ame nkute kwikala muli Bata kayi Bata bakute kwikala muli njame. Nanteco, shomani ncito shakame.
12 Listen to this carefully: [You] who trust in me will do the [kinds of] miracles [that I have done]. [Because of what I will do for you] (OR, [Because I will send God’s Spirit to you]) after I go to my Father, you will be able to do [miracles] that will be greater than [the ones I have done].
Cakubinga ndambilishingeti uyo lanshomonga mulimo ngondenshinga nendi nakawinse, pakwinga ndenga kuli Bata neco nendi nakense byapita pali ibi.
13 And whatever you, using my authority, ask me to do, I will do it, in order that I can show [you] how great [my] Father is.
Neco ciliconse ncoshimukasenge muLina lyakame, ninkacinse kwambeti Bata bakapewe bulemu kupitila mu Mwanabo.
14 Anything that you ask [my Father to do, anything that you ask] with my [authority] [MTY], I will do.”
Ninkense ciliconse ncoshi mukasenge muLina lyakame.”
15 “If you love me, you will do what I have commanded you.
“Na munsuni, konkelani milawo yakame.
16 Then I myself will request [my] Father, and he will send you someone else who will (encourage/be like a legal counsel for) you. (aiōn g165)
Lino ninkasenge Bata kwambeti, bakamupe weshikumunyamfwilisha naumbi uyo eshakekale nenu masuba onse. (aiōn g165)
17 [I am talking about] the Spirit, who [will teach you God’s] truth. He will be with you forever. Those who are opposed to God [MTY] cannot receive him, because they cannot understand what he [does], and they cannot know who he is. But you know who he is, because he is with you and he will be inside you.
Mushimu Uswepa nukamuleshe cancine ncine. Cishi nkacela kumutambula sobwe, pakwinga nkacimubono kayi nkacimwinshi. Nsombi amwe mumwinshi, pakwinga ukute kwikala muli njamwe, kayi nakekale muli njamwe kwacindi conse.
18 [When I leave you], I will not let you be alone/helpless [MET]. [When I send the Spirit, it will be like] I am coming back to you (OR, [When I rise from the dead], I will come back to you.)
“Nteshi ndimushiyeti bana banshiwa. Ninkese kayi kuli njamwe.
19 Soon those who do not belong to God [MTY] will not see me any more. But [when the Spirit comes to you, it will be as though] you will be seeing me again (OR, But [after I become alive again], you will see me again.) Because I will be alive again, you also will have [eternal] life.
Kulashalowa kacindi kang'ana, cishi capanshi nteshi cikambonepo nsombi amwe nimukambone. Pakwinga ndemuyumi, nenjamwe nimukabe bayumi.
20 At that time you will know that I have a close relationship with my Father, and you will have a close relationship with me, and I will have a close relationship with you.
Pabusuba ubo nimukenshibeti Bata, nenjame tuli muntu umo, kayi amwe nenjame tuli muntu umo.
21 Those who have accepted my commands and obey them are the people who love me. My Father will love those who love me. I also will love them, and I will fully reveal to them [what I am like].”
“Muntu latambulunga milawo yakame nekwikonka, endiye unsuni. Kayi uyo unsuni ame, Bata nibakamusune. Nenjame ninkamusune, kayi nakenshibe ncombele.”
22 Then Judas spoke to him. He was not Judas Iscariot (OR, Judas, the man from Kerioth [Town]), [but instead a disciple whose other name was Thaddeus]. He said, “Lord, what has happened so that you can fully reveal to us what you are like, and not reveal that to those who do not belong to God [MTY]?”
Yuda naumbi, kutamba usa Yuda Iskaliote sobwe, walamwipusheti, “Mwami nomba ngamuliyubululaconi kuli njafwe kwakubula kuliyubulula ku cishi capanshi?”
23 Jesus replied to him, “Those who love me will obey what I have told them. My Father will [also] love them. It is those people whom my Father and I will [be able to] come to and (live with/have a personal relationship with).
Yesu walambeti, uyo unsuni, nakakonke ciyisho cakame. Nabo Bata nibakamusune, ame ne Bata nitukekale mulyendiye.
24 But those who do not love me will not obey what I have told them. [So I cannot reveal to them what I am really like]. These words that I am telling you have not come just from me. They came from [my] Father, the one who sent me.
Muntu utansuni, nteshakakonkele ciyisho cakame. Maswi awa ngomulanyumfunga nteyo akame sobwe, nsombi na Bata balantuma.
25 I have told you all these things while I am still with you.
Ndamwambilililimo nkandicili nenjamwe.
26 But [my] Father will send the Holy Spirit. He is the one who will (encourage/be like a legal counsel for) you. He will come with my authority [MTY]. He will teach you all of [God’s truth that you need to know]. He will also cause you to remember all the things that I have told you.
Nsombi usa weshikunyamfwilisha, Mushimu Uswepa uyo Bata ngoshibakatume mulina lyakame, endiye weshakamwiyishe byonse, kayi nakamwanusheni byonse ibyo mbyondalamwambila kandicili nenjamwe.
27 As I leave you, I am causing you to have [inner] peace. This [inner] peace comes from me. I am not causing you to have something that those who do not belong to God [MTY] can give you. [So] stop being anxious/worried, and do not be afraid.
Ndamupanga lumuno. Lumuno ndondelela kumupa. Ndamupanga lumuno lwapusana nelumuno ndocela kupa cishi capanshi. Neco myoyo yenu itashupika nambi kutina.
28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, but [later] I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going back to [my] Father, because [my] Father is greater than I am, [and there he will honor me and will send the Spirit to you].
Mulanyumfu mpondamwambilangeti, ndenga, nsombi ndakesanga kayi kuli njamwe. Nemunsuni, nemulakondwa kwambeti ndenga kuli Bata, pakwinga Bata bampita.
29 I have told you [these things now] before they happen, so that when they happen you will believe [that what I said is true].
Ndamwambilililimo bintu ibi nkabitana binshika, kwambeti byakenshika, mukashome.
30 I will not [be able to] talk to you much longer, because what happens to me will be as though [Satan], the ruler of this world, is coming [to attack me]. But he has no [control over what happens to] me.
Nteshi mpitilishe kwamba nenjamwe pakwinga Satana mwami wa cishi capanshi, lesanga. Nomba uliya ngofu palinjame,
31 Instead, the people who do not belong to God [MTY] must learn [from what happens to me] that I love [my] Father, and I am doing the things that he has commanded me to do. Now, let’s get up and leave here.”
Nomba bantu bonse bela kwinshiba kwambeti ame nsuni Bata, weco ndenshinga ncobalang'ambila. “Lino kamunyamuka twenga.”
