Jesus Is the Way to the Father
1 Jesus said to his disciples, “Don't be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me. 2 There are many rooms in my Father's house. I wouldn't tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you. 3 After I have done this, I will come back and take you with me. Then we will be together. 4 You know the way to where I am going.”
5 Thomas said, “Lord, we don't even know where you are going! How can we know the way?”
6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life!” Jesus answered. “Without me, no one can go to the Father. 7 If you had really known me, you would have known the Father. But from now on, you do know him, and you have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father. That is all we need.”
9 Jesus replied:
Philip, I have been with you for a long time. Don't you know who I am? If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. How can you ask me to show you the Father? 10 Don't you believe that I am one with the Father and that the Father is one with me? What I say isn't said on my own. The Father who lives in me does these things.
11 Have faith in me when I say that the Father is one with me and that I am one with the Father. Or else have faith in me simply because of the things I do. 12 I tell you for certain that if you have faith in me, you will do the same things I am doing. You will do even greater things, now that I am going back to the Father. 13 Ask me, and I will do whatever you ask. This way the Son will bring honor to the Father. 14 I will do whatever you ask me to do.
The Holy Spirit Is Promised
15 Jesus said to his disciples:
If you love me, you will do as I command. 16 Then I will ask the Father to send you the Holy Spirit who will help you and always be with you. 17 The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don't see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living in you.
18 I won't leave you like orphans. I will come back to you. 19 In a little while the people of this world won't be able to see me, but you will see me. And because I live, you will live. 20 Then you will know I am one with the Father. You will know you are one with me, and I am one with you. 21 If you love me, you will do what I have said, and my Father will love you. I will also love you and show you what I am like.
22 The other Judas, not Judas Iscariot, then spoke up and asked, “Lord, what do you mean by saying that you will show us what you are like, but you will not show the people of this world?”
23 Jesus replied:
If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them. 24 But anyone who doesn't love me, won't obey me. What they have heard me say doesn't really come from me, but from the Father who sent me.
25 I have told you these things while I am still with you. 26 But the Holy Spirit will come and help you, because the Father will send the Spirit to take my place. The Spirit will teach you everything and will remind you of what I said while I was with you.
27 I give you peace, the kind of peace only I can give. It isn't like the peace this world can give. So don't be worried or afraid.
28 You have already heard me say I am going and I will also come back to you. If you really love me, you should be glad I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am.
29 I am telling you this before I leave, so when it does happen, you will have faith in me. 30 I cannot speak with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. But he has no power over me. 31 I obey my Father, so everyone in the world might know that I love him.
It is time for us to go now.
Yeesu dammaa le mu siloo ti ka taa Alla yaa
1 “Ali sondomoolu kana toora. Ali laa Alla la, aduŋ ali si laa nte fanaa la. 2 M Faamaa la suwo kono, buŋ jamaa le be jee. Niŋ wo nte, n te a fo la ali ye nuŋ ko, m be taa la ka dulaa parendi ali ye. 3 Aduŋ niŋ n taata, ŋa dulaa parendi ali ye, m be naa la le kotenke. Bituŋ m be ali taa la fo ali si tara m fee, m be daameŋ. 4 Aduŋ ali ye siloo loŋ ne, m be taa la daameŋ.”
5 Bituŋ Tomas ko a ye ko, “M Maarii, m̀ maŋ a loŋ, ite be taa la daameŋ. Wo to m̀ be siloo loŋ na ñaadii le?” 6 Yeesu ko a ye ko, “Nte le mu siloo ti, tooñaa aniŋ baluwo. Moo-wo-moo te naa noo la m Faamaa yaa, fo niŋ a naata ka bo niŋ nte la. 7 Niŋ ali ye nte loŋ kendeke nuŋ, ali be m Faamaa fanaa loŋ na le. Ka bo saayiŋ na, ali ye a loŋ ne, aduŋ ali ye a je le fanaa.”
8 Bituŋ Filipi ko a ye ko, “M Maarii, i Faamaa yitandi ǹ na, aduŋ m̀ be wasa la le.” 9 Wo kamma la Yeesu ko a ye ko, “Filipi, nte tarata ali fee le fo waati jaŋ, hani wo i maŋ nte loŋ? Moo meŋ ye nte je, wo ye m Faamaa le je. Wo to, ite si a fo noo ñaadii le ko, ‘I Faamaa yitandi ǹ na’? 10 Fo i maŋ laa ko, nte be m Faamaa kono le, aduŋ m Faamaa fanaa be nte kono le? Ŋa kumoolu mennu fo ali ye, m maŋ ì fo m fansuŋ kaŋo kaŋ. Bari m Faamaa, meŋ be baluuriŋ nte kono, wo le ka a la dookuwolu ke. 11 Ali laa n na kumoo la ko, nte be m Faamaa kono le, aduŋ m Faamaa fanaa be nte kono le. Niŋ ali maŋ laa wo la, ali si laa n na baara kuwolu kamma la.
12 “Tooñaa-tooñaa, m be a fo la ali ye, moo meŋ laata nte la, wo fanaa be baara kuwolu le ke la, n ka mennu ke. Aduŋ a be hani baara kuwolu ke la le, mennu warata ka tambi ñinnu la, kaatu m be taa m Faamaa yaa le. 13 Ali ye feŋ-wo-feŋ daani nte too la, m be a ke la ali ye le, fo Faamaa la semboo niŋ waroo si yitandi ka bo niŋ Dinkewo la. 14 Niŋ ali ye feŋ-wo-feŋ daani nte too la, m be a ke la le.
Yeesu ye laahidi ke Alla la Nooroo la
15 “Niŋ ali ye nte kanu, ali be n na yaamaroolu muta la le. 16 M be m Faamaa daani la le, aduŋ a be deemaarilaa doo dii la ali la, meŋ be tu la ali fee fo abadaa. 17 Wo le mu Tooñaa Nooroo ti, duniyaa te meŋ soto noo la, kaatu a buka a je, sako a si a loŋ. Bari alitolu be a loŋ na le, kaatu a be ali fee le, aduŋ a be tara la ali kono le.
18 “N te ali tu la jaŋ ko baayoolu, m be naa la ali kaŋ ne. 19 A te mee la, duniyaa te n je la kotenke, bari alitolu be n je la le. Baawo m be baluuriŋ ne, alitolu fanaa be baluu la le. 20 Wo luŋo la, ali be a loŋ na le ko, nte be m Faamaa kono le, aduŋ alitolu be nte kono le, aniŋ nte fanaa be ali kono le. 21 Moo meŋ ye n na yaamaroolu moyi, aduŋ a ye ì muta, wo le ye n kanu. Meŋ ye n kanu, m Faamaa be wo kanu la le. Nte fanaa be wo kanu la le, aduŋ m be m faŋo yitandi la a la le.”
22 Bituŋ wo Yudas doo meŋ maŋ ke Yudas Isikariyoti ti, a ko Yeesu ye ko, “M Maarii, muŋ ne ye a tinna i be i faŋ yitandi la ntolu doroŋ na, i maŋ i faŋ yitandi duniyaa la?” 23 Yeesu ye a jaabi ko, “Niŋ moo meŋ ye nte kanu, a be n na kumoo muta la le, aduŋ m Faamaa be wo maarii kanu la le. Aduŋ m̀ be naa la a yaa le, ŋà sabati a fee. 24 Moo meŋ maŋ n kanu, wo te n na kumoo muta la. Aduŋ kumoo, ali ye meŋ moyi, a maŋ ke nte taa ti, bari m Faamaa meŋ ye n kii.
25 “Ŋa ñiŋ kuwolu fo ali ye le, baawo m be ali fee le foloo. 26 Deemaarilaa meŋ mu Noora Kuliŋo ti, m Faamaa be a kii la nte too le la, aduŋ a be ali karandi la kuwolu bee le la. A be ali hakiloolu bulandi la kuwolu bee le la, ŋa mennu fo ali ye.
27 “Ŋa kayiroo le tu ali fee, ŋa n na kayiroo dii ali la le. Nte maŋ a dii ali la ko duniyaa ka a dii ñaameŋ. Ali sondomoolu kana toora, sako ali si sila. 28 Ali ye a moyi le, ŋa meŋ fo ali ye ko, ‘M be taa la le, bari m be naa la ali kaŋ ne kotenke.’ Niŋ ali ye n kanu, ali be seewoo la le ko, n ka taa m Faamaa le yaa, kaatu ate le la kuwo warata ka tambi nte la. 29 Ŋa a fo ali ye le saayiŋ, janniŋ a be ke la, fo niŋ a keta, ali si laa. 30 Nte niŋ alitolu te kuu jamaa diyaamu la kotenke, kaatu ñiŋ duniyaa maralilaa be naa kaŋ ne. A maŋ semboo soto nte kaŋ, 31 bari ñiŋ ñanta ke la le, fo duniyaa si a loŋ ko, ŋa m Faamaa kanu le, aduŋ a ye n yaamari meŋ na, ŋa a ke le. Ali wuli, ŋà taa!”
