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.

¹Yesu alisema "Kweli nawaambieni, yeyote yule asiyeingia katika zizi la kondoo kwa kupitia mlangoni, bali hupenya na kuingia kwa njia nyingine, huyo ni mwizi na mnyang'anyi.

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

²Lakini anayeingia kwa kupitia mlangoni, huyo ndiye mchungaji wa kondoo.

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.

³Mngoja mlango wa zizi humfungulia, na kondoo husikia sauti yake, naye huwaita kondoo wake kila mmoja kwa jina lake na kuwaongoza nje.

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

⁴Akisha watoa nje huwatangulia mbele nao kondoo humfuata, kwani wanaijua sauti yake.

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

⁵Kondoo hao hawawezi kumfuata mgeni, bali watamkimbia kwa sababu hawaijui sauti yake."

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

⁶Yesu aliwaambia mfano huo, lakini wao hawakuelewa alichotaka kuwaambia.

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

⁷Basi, akasema tena, "Kweli nawaambieni, mimi ni mlango wa kondoo.

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

⁸Wale wengine wote waliokuja kabla yangu ni wezi na wanyang'anyi, nao kondoo hawakuwasikiliza.

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.

⁹Mimi ni mlango. Anayeingia kwa kupitia kwangu ataokolewa; ataingia na kutoka, na kupata malisho.

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

¹⁰Mwizi huja kwa shabaha ya kuiba, kuua na kuharibu. Mimi nimekuja mpate kuwa na uzima--uzima kamili.

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.

¹¹"Mimi ni mchungaji mwema. Mchungaji mwema huutoa uhai wake kwa ajili ya kondoo wake.

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.

¹²Mtu wa kuajiriwa ambaye si mchungaji, na wala kondoo si mali yake, anapoona mbwa mwitu anakuja, huwaacha kondoo na kukimbia. Kisha mbwa mwitu huwakamata na kuwatawanya.

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

¹³Yeye hajali kitu juu ya kondoo kwa sababu yeye ni mtu wa mshahara tu.

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

¹⁴Mimi ni mchungaji mwema. Nawajua walio wangu, nao walio wangu wananijua mimi,

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

¹⁵kama vile Baba anijuavyo, nami nimjuavyo Baba. Mimi nayatoa maisha yangu kwa ajili yao.

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.

¹⁶Tena ninao kondoo wengine ambao hawamo zizini humu. Inanibidi kuwaleta hao pia, nao wataisikia sauti yangu, na kutakuwako kundi moja na mchungaji mmoja.

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

¹⁷"Baba ananipenda kwani nautoa uhai wangu ili nipate kuupokea tena.

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.”

¹⁸Hakuna mtu anayeninyang'anya uhai wangu; mimi na nautoa kwa hiari yangu mwenyewe. Ninao uwezo wa kuutoa na uwezo wa kuuchukua tena. Hivi ndivyo Baba alivyoniamuru nifanye."

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

¹⁹Kukawa tena na mafarakano kati ya Wayahudi kwa sababu ya maneno haya.

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

²⁰Wengi wao wakasema, "Ana pepo; tena ni mwendawazimu! Ya nini kumsikiliza?"

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

²¹Wengine wakasema, "Haya si maneno ya mwenye pepo. Je, pepo anaweza kuyafumbua macho ya vipofu?"

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.

²²Huko Yerusalemu kulikuwa na sikukuu ya Kutabaruku. Wakati huo ulikuwa wa baridi.

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

²³Naye Yesu akawa anatembea Hekaluni katika ukumbi wa Solomoni.

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.”

²⁴Basi, Wayahudi wakamzunguka, wakamwuliza, "Utatuacha katika mashaka mpaka lini? Kama wewe ndiye Kristo, basi, tuambie wazi."

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.

²⁵Yesu akawajibu, "Nimewaambieni, lakini hamsadiki. Kazi ninazozifanya mimi kwa jina la Baba yangu zinanishuhudia.

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

²⁶Lakini ninyi hamsadiki kwa sababu ninyi si kondoo wangu.

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

²⁷Kondoo wangu huisikia sauti yangu; mimi nawajua, nao hunifuata.

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

²⁸Mimi nawapa uzima wa milele; nao hawatapotea milele, wala hakuna mtu atakayeweza kuwatoa mkononi mwangu.

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.

²⁹Baba yangu ambaye ndiye aliyenipa hao ni mkuu kuliko wote, wale hakuna awezaye kuwatoa mikononi mwake Baba.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³⁰Mimi na Baba, tu mmoja."

³¹Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

³¹Basi, Wayahudi wakachukua mawe ili wamtupie.

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

³²Yesu akawaambia, "Nimewaonyesheni kazi nyingi kutoka kwa Baba. Ni ipi kati ya hizo inayowafanya mnipige mawe?"

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

³³Wayahudi wakamjibu, "Hatukupigi mawe kwa ajili ya tendo jema, ila kwa sababu ya kukufuru! Maana wajifanya kuwa Mungu hali wewe ni binadamu tu."

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

³⁴Yesu akawajibu, "Je, haikuandikwa katika Sheria yenu: Mimi nimesema, ninyi ni miungu?

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

³⁵Mungu aliwaita miungu wale waliopewa neno lake; nasi twajua kwamba Maandiko Matakatifu yasema ukweli daima.

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?’

³⁶Je, yeye ambaye Baba alimweka wakfu na kumtuma ulimwenguni, mnamwambia: Unakufuru, eti kwa sababu nilisema: Mimi ni Mwana wa Mungu?

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

³⁷Kama sifanyi kazi za Baba yangu msiniamini.

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.”

³⁸Lakini ikiwa ninazifanya, hata kama hamniamini, walau ziaminini hizo kazi mpate kujua na kutambua kwamba Baba yuko ndani yangu, nami niko ndani yake."

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

³⁹Wakajaribu tena kumkamata lakini akachopoka mikononi mwao.

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

⁴⁰Yesu akaenda tena ng'ambo ya mto Yordani, mahali Yohane alipokuwa akibatiza, akakaa huko.

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

⁴¹Watu wengi walimwendea wakasema, "Yohane hakufanya ishara yoyote. Lakini yale yote Yohane aliyosema juu ya mtu huyu ni kweli kabisa."

⁴²Many believed in him there.

⁴²Watu wengi mahali hapo wakamwamini.