Yohana 7
1 Baada ya hayo, Yesu alikuwa akitembea katika Galilaya. Hakutaka kutembea mkoani Yudea kwa sababu viongozi wa Wayahudi walikuwa wanataka kumwua.
And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Sikukuu ya Vibanda ya Wayahudi ilikuwa imekaribia.
Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was near.
3 Basi ndugu zake wakamwambia, “Ondoka hapa uende Yudea ili wanafunzi wako wazione kazi unazozifanya.
His brothers therefore said to him, Depart from here, and go into Judea so that thy disciples also may see thy works that thou do.
4 Mtu hafanyi mambo kwa siri kama anataka kujulikana kwa watu. Maadam unafanya mambo haya, basi, jidhihirishe kwa ulimwengu.”
For no man does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be in public. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.
5 (Hata ndugu zake hawakumwamini!)
For not even his brothers believed in him.
6 Basi, Yesu akawaambia, “Wakati wangu ufaao haujafika bado. Lakini kwenu ninyi kila wakati unafaa.
Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet here, but your time is always ready.
7 Ulimwengu hauwezi kuwachukia ninyi, lakini mimi wanichukia kwa sababu mimi nauambia wazi kwamba matendo yake ni maovu.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
8 Ninyi nendeni kwenye sikukuu hiyo. Mimi siendi kwenye sikukuu hiyo, maana saa yangu ifaayo haijafika.”
Go ye up to this feast. I am not yet going to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.
9 Alisema hayo kisha akabaki huko Galilaya.
And having said these things to them, he remained in Galilee.
10 Baada ya ndugu zake kwenda kwenye sikukuu, Yesu naye alikwenda, lakini hakuenda kwa hadhara bali kwa siri.
But when his brothers went up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in private.
11 Viongozi wa Wayahudi walikuwa wanamtafuta kwenye sikukuu hiyo; Wakauliza: “Yuko wapi?”
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is that man?
12 Kulikuwa na minong'ono mingi katika umati wa watu. Baadhi yao walisema, “Ni mtu mwema.” Wengine walisema, “La! Anawapotosha watu.”
And there was much murmuring among the multitudes about him. Some said, He is a good man, others said, No, but he leads the multitude astray.
13 Hata hivyo hakuna mtu aliyethubutu kusema, habari zake hadharani kwa kuwaogopa viongozi wa Wayahudi.
Yet no man spoke openly about him because of fear of the Jews.
14 Sikukuu hiyo ilipofikia katikati, Yesu naye alikwenda Hekaluni, akaanza kufundisha.
And when it was now in the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
15 Basi, Wayahudi wakashangaa na kusema “Mtu huyu amepataje elimu naye hakusoma shuleni?”
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How does this man know scholarly material, not having learned?
16 Hapo Yesu akawajibu, “Mafundisho ninayofundisha si yangu, bali ni yake yeye aliyenituma.
Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me.
17 Mtu anayependa kufanya yale anayotaka Mungu, atajua kama mafundisho yangu yametoka kwa Mungu, au mimi najisemea tu mwenyewe.
If any man wants to do his will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or I speak from myself.
18 Yeye anayejisemea tu mwenyewe anatafuta sifa yake mwenyewe; lakini anayetafuta sifa ya yule aliyemtuma, huyo ni mwaminifu, na ndani yake hamna uovu wowote.
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, this man is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.
19 Je, Mose hakuwapeni Sheria? Hata hivyo, hakuna hata mmoja wenu anayeishika Sheria. Kwa nini mnataka kuniua?”
Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
20 Hapo watu wakamjibu, “Una wazimu wewe! Nani anataka kukuua?”
The multitude answered and said, Thou have a demon. Who seeks to kill thee?
21 Yesu akawajibu, “Kuna jambo moja nililofanya, nanyi mnalistaajabia.
Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because of this.
22 Mose aliwapeni ile desturi ya kutahiri. (Si kwamba desturi hiyo ilitoka kwa Mose, bali ilitoka kwa mababu). Sasa ninyi humtahiri mtu hata siku ya Sabato.
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on a sabbath.
23 Ikiwa basi, mtu hutahiriwa hata siku ya Sabato kusudi Sheria ya Mose isivunjwe, mbona mnanikasirikia kwa sababu nimemfanya mtu kuwa mzima kabisa siku ya Sabato?
If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be loosed, are ye angry with me because I made a man entirely well on a sabbath?
24 Msihukumu mambo kwa nje tu; toeni hukumu ya haki.”
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
25 Baadhi ya watu wa Yerusalemu walisema, “Je, yule mtu wanayemtafuta wamuue si huyu?
Therefore some of the Jerusalemites said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
26 Tazameni sasa! Anawaonya hadharani, wala hakuna mtu anayemwambia hata neno. Je, yawezekana kuwa viongozi wametambua kweli kwamba huyu ndiye Kristo?
And lo, he speaks in public, and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the rulers really know that this really is the Christ?
27 Kristo atakapokuja hakuna mtu atakayejua mahali alikotoka, lakini sisi tunajua alikotoka mtu huyu!”
However we know this man, where he is from, but when the Christ comes, no man knows where he is from.
28 Basi, Yesu alipokuwa anafundisha Hekaluni alipaaza sauti na kusema, “Ati mnanijua; hata nilikotoka mnakujua! Hata hivyo, sikuja kwa mamlaka yangu mwenyewe; ila yeye aliyenituma mimi ni wa kweli, nanyi hamumjui.
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know where I am from? And I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29 Lakini mimi namjua kwa sababu nimetoka kwake, naye ndiye aliyenituma.”
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.
30 Basi, watu wakataka kumtia nguvuni, lakini hakuna mtu aliyethubutu kumkamata kwa sababu saa yake ilikuwa haijafika bado.
They sought therefore to seize him, and yet no man laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.
31 Wengi katika ule umati wa watu walimwamini, wakasema, “Je, Kristo akija atafanya ishara kubwa zaidi kuliko alizozifanya huyu?”
But many from the crowd believed in him, and they said, When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these that this man did?
32 Mafarisayo waliwasikia watu wakinong'ona maneno hayo juu ya Yesu. Basi, wao pamoja na makuhani wakuu wakawatuma walinzi wamtie nguvuni.
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent subordinates so that they might take him.
33 Yesu akasema, “Bado niko nanyi kwa muda mfupi, kisha nitamwendea yule aliyenituma.
Jesus therefore said, Yet a little time I am with you, and then I go to him who sent me.
34 Mtanitafuta lakini hamtaniona, maana pale nitakapokuwa ninyi hamwezi kufika.”
Ye will seek me, and will not find me, and where I am, ye cannot come.
35 Viongozi wa Wayahudi wakasema wao kwa wao, “Mtu huyu atakwenda wapi ambapo hatutaweza kumpata? Atakwenda kwa Wayahudi waliotawanyika kati ya Wagiriki, na kuwafundisha Wagiriki?
The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where is this man going to go that we will not find him? Is he going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
36 Ana maana gani anaposema: Mtanitafuta lakini hamtanipata, na mahali nitakapokuwa ninyi hamwezi kufika?”
What is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and will not find me, and, Where I am, ye cannot come?
37 Siku ya mwisho ya sikukuu hiyo ilikuwa siku maalum. Yesu alisimama, akasema kwa sauti kubwa, “Aliye na kiu na aje kwangu anywe.
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
38 Kama yasemavyo Maandiko Matakatifu: Anayeniamini mimi, mito ya maji yenye uzima itatiririka kutoka moyoni mwake!”
He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.
39 (Alisema hayo kumhusu Roho ambaye wale waliomwamini yeye watampokea. Wakati huo Roho alikuwa hajafika kwa sababu Yesu alikuwa hajatukuzwa bado.)
But he spoke this about the Spirit that those who believe in him were going to receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40 Baadhi ya watu katika ule umati walisikia maneno hayo, wakasema, “Kweli mtu huyu ndiye yule nabii!”
Many from the multitude therefore, when they heard the saying, said, This is truly the prophet.
41 Wengine wakasema, “Huyu ndiye Kristo!” Lakini wengine walisema, “Je, yawezekana Kristo akatoka Galilaya?
Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, For does the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Maandiko Matakatifu yasemaje? Yanasema: Kristo atatoka katika ukoo wa Daudi, na atazaliwa Bethlehemu, mji wa Daudi!”
Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?
43 Basi, kukatokea mafarakano juu yake katika ule umati wa watu.
So there became a division among the multitude because of him.
44 Baadhi ya watu walitaka kumtia nguvuni lakini hakuna aliyejaribu kumkamata.
And some of them wanted to take him, but no man laid hands on him.
45 Kisha wale walinzi wakarudi kwa makuhani wakuu na Mafarisayo; nao wakawauliza, “Kwa nini hamkumleta?”
The subordinates therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And those men said to them, Why did ye not bring him?
46 Walinzi wakawajibu, “Hakuna mtu aliyepata kamwe kusema kama asemavyo mtu huyu!”
The subordinates answered, A man never so spoke like this man.
47 Mafarisayo wakawauliza, “Je, nanyi pia mmedanganyika?
The Pharisees therefore answered them, Have ye not also been led astray?
48 Je, mmekwisha mwona hata mmoja wa viongozi wa watu, au mmoja wa Mafarisayo aliyemwamini?
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
49 Lakini umati huu haujui Sheria ya Mose; umelaaniwa!”
But this multitude that does not know the law are accursed.
50 Mmoja wao alikuwa Nikodemo ambaye hapo awali alikuwa amemwendea Yesu. Basi, yeye akawaambia,
Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them),
51 “Je, Sheria yetu humhukumu mtu kabla ya kumsikia kwanza na kujua anafanya nini?”
Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does?
52 Nao wakamjibu, “Je, wewe pia umetoka Galilaya? Haya, kayachunguze Maandiko Matakatifu nawe utaona kwamba Galilaya hakutoki kamwe nabii!”
They answered and said to him, Are thou also from Galilee? Search and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet.
53 Basi, wote wakaondoka, kila mtu akaenda zake;
And each man went to his house.
