¹Zvirokwazvo, zvirokwazvo, ndinoti kwamuri: Usingapindi napamukova mudanga remakwai, asi unokwira nekumwe, ndiye mbavha negororo.

¹ “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

²Zvino unopinda nepamukova mufudzi wemakwai.

² But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

³Murindi wemukova unomuzarurira, nemakwai anonzwa inzwi rake, uye unodana makwai ake nezita, nekuatungamirira kunze.

³ The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

⁴Uye kana abudisa makwai ake, unoatungamirira; nemakwai anomutevera, nekuti anoziva inzwi rake.

⁴ Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

⁵Asi mweni haangatongomuteveri, asi anomutiza; nekuti haazivi inzwi revaeni.

⁵ They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

⁶Jesu wakareva dimikira iri kwavari; asi ivo havana kunzwisisa, kuti zvinhui zvaakataura kwavari.

⁶Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

⁷Zvino Jesu akati kwavarizve: Zvirokwazvo, zvirokwazvo, ndinoti kwamuri: Ini ndiri mukova wemakwai;

⁷Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

⁸vose vakanditangira kuuya imbavha nemakororo, asi makwai haana kuvanzwa.

⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

⁹Ini ndiri mukova; kana munhu achipinda neni, uchaponeswa, uchapinda nekubuda, nekuwana mafuro.

⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

¹⁰Mbavha haiuyi asi kungozoba nekuuraya nekuparadza; ini ndakauya, kuti vave neupenyu, uye vave nezvinopfachukira.

¹⁰ The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

¹¹Ini ndiri mufudzi wakanaka. Mufudzi wakanaka unoradzikira pasi makwai ake upenyu hwake.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹²Asi muricho, usati ari mufudzi, makwai asati ari ake pachake, unoona bumhi richiuya, akasiya makwai, ndokutiza; bumhi rinoabata, nekuparadzira makwai.

¹² He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

¹³Muricho unotiza nekuti muricho, uye haana hanya nemakwai.

¹³ The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

¹⁴Ini ndiri mufudzi wakanaka, uye ndinoziva angu, ndinozikamwa neangu,

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

¹⁵Baba sezvavanondiziva, saizvozvo neni ndinoziva Baba; zvino ndinoradzikira pasi makwai upenyu hwangu.

¹⁵ even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁶Nemamwe makwai ndinawo, asati ari edanga rino. Naiwo ndinofanira kuuya nawo, achanzwa inzwi rangu; uye rive boka rimwe mufudzi umwe.

¹⁶ I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. Isaiah 56:8 I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

¹⁷Nekuda kwaizvozvo Baba vanondida, nekuti ini ndinoradzika upenyu hwangu pasi, kuti ndihwutorezve.

¹⁷ Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, Isaiah 53:7-8 that I may take it again.

¹⁸Hakuna ungahwutora kubva kwandiri, asi ini ndinohwuradzika pasi pachangu. Simba ndinaro rekuhwuradzika pasi, uye simba ndinaro rekuhwutorazve. Uyu murairo ndakaugamuchira kuna Baba vangu.

¹⁸ No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

¹⁹Naizvozvo kukavapozve kupesana pakati pevaJudha nekuda kwemashoko awa.

¹⁹Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

²⁰Vazhinji vavo vakati: Une dhimoni uye unopenga; munomuteererei?

²⁰Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

²¹Vamwe vakati: Mashoko awa haasi eune dhimoni; ko dhimoni ringagona kusvinudza meso emapofu here?

²¹Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?” Exodus 4:11

²²Zvino paiva nemutambo wekuvandudza paJerusarema, chaiva chando;

²²It was the Feast of the Dedication The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah,” a celebration of the rededication of the Temple. at Jerusalem.

²³Jesu ndokufamba-famba mutembere muberere raSoromoni.

²³It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.

²⁴Zvino vaJudha vakamukomba, vakati kwaari: Kusvikira rinhi uchigara wakaremberedza mweya yedu? Kana uri Kristu iwe, tiudze pachena.

²⁴The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

²⁵Jesu akavapindura akati: Ndakakuudzai, asi hamuna kutenda; mabasa andinoita ini muzita raBaba vangu ndiwo anopupura nezvangu;

²⁵Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

²⁶asi imwi hamutendi; nekuti hamusi vemakwai angu, sezvandakareva kwamuri.

²⁶ But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

²⁷Makwai angu anonzwa inzwi rangu, neni ndinoaziva, uye anonditevera;

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸uye ini ndinoapa upenyu hwusingaperi; uye haachatongoparari nekusingaperi, uye hakuna uchaabvuta muruoko rwangu.

²⁸ I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁹Baba vangu vakandipa iwo vakuru kune vose; uye hakuna unogona kuabvuta muruoko rwaBaba vangu.

²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

³⁰Ini naBaba tiri umwe.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³¹Naizvozvo vaJudha vakanongazve mabwe, kuti vamutake.

³¹Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

³²Jesu akavapindura akati: Ndakakuratidzai mabasa mazhinji akanaka kubva kuna Baba vangu; nderipi remabasa awa ramunonditakira?

³²Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

³³VaJudha vakamupindura vachiti: Hatikutakiri basa rakanaka, asi kunyomba; uye nekuti iwe uri munhu unozviita Mwari.

³³The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

³⁴Jesu akavapindura akati: Hazvina kunyorwa here mumurairo wenyu, zvichinzi: Ini ndakati: Muri vamwari?

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ Psalm 82:6

³⁵Kana akavaidza vamwari, ivo shoko raMwari rakasvika kwavari, uye rugwaro harwugoni kuputswa;

³⁵ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

³⁶imwi munoti kune uyo Baba vakamuita mutsvene vakamutuma panyika: Unonyomba, nekuti ndati: Ndiri Mwanakomana waMwari?

³⁶ do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

³⁷Kana ndisingaiti mabasa aBaba vangu, musanditenda.

³⁷ If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

³⁸Asi kana ndichiaita, kunyange musingatendi ini, tendai mabasa; kuti muzive nekutenda kuti Baba vari mandiri, neni mavari.

³⁸ But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

³⁹Zvino vakatsvakazve kumubata; asi wakabuda paruoko rwavo.

³⁹They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

⁴⁰Zvino akaendazve mhiri kwaJoridhani kunzvimbo Johwani kwaaibhabhatidza pakutanga; ndokugarapo.

⁴⁰He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

⁴¹Zvino vazhinji vakauya kwaari vakati: Johwani haana kuita chiratidzo, asi chose chakareva Johwani pamusoro peuyu chaiva chokwadi.

⁴¹Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”

⁴²Vazhinji ndokutenda kwaari ipapo.

⁴²Many believed in him there.