Jan 1
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Jezikris, Pawòl etènèl Bondye a
1 Anvan tout bagay te kòmanse,
Pawòl[a] la te la.
Li te avèk Bondye
epi Pawòl la se te Bondye menm.
2 Li te avèk Bondye
nan kòmansman.
3 Se ak li menm tout bagay te kreye;
pa te gen anyen ki te kreye san li.
4 Se nan limenm lavi te ye,
epi lavi sa a se te limyè pou tout moun sou latè.
5 Limyè[b] a klere nan fènwa,
men fòs fènwa pa kapab gen viktwa[c] sou li.
6 Te gen yon nonm Bondye te voye, li te rele Jan. 7 Li te vin temwanye pou fè moun konnen kilès ki Limyè a. Konsa tout moun ta rive kwè nan li. 8 Se pa Jan ki te limyè a. Men, li te vini pou fè moun konnen kilès ki limyè a. 9 Vrè limyè a, parèt li parèt nan mond lan, li klere tout moun.
10 Men Pawòl la te nan mond lan deja,
se ak Pawòl la menm mond lan te kreye.
Poutan, mond lan pa t rekonèt Pawòl la.
11 Li te vini pami moun pa l yo,
men moun pa l yo pa t resevwa li.
12 Men, tout moun ki resevwa Pawòl la,
epi ki kwè nan li,
li ba yo dwa pou yo vin pitit Bondye.
13 Yo vin pitit Bondye,
men sa pa fèt menm jan ak lè yon moun fè pitit.
Se pa paske yon moun te vle sa oubyen te fè plan pou sa,
men se yon bagay Bondye fè ak pwòp volonte li.
14 Pawòl la te vin tounen moun
epi li viv nan mitan nou.
Nou te wè grandè li manifeste,
yon glwa sèl pitit Bondye Papa a te ka genyen.
Pawòl la te plen gras
epi li montre nou tout verite Bondye a.
15 Jan te rann temwanyaj sou Pawòl la. Li pale byen fò, li di: “Se de li m t ap pale nou, lè m te di moun nan ki gen pou vini apre m nan pi gran pase m, paske li te la anvan m.”
16 Wi, Pawòl la te tèlman plen ak lanmou epi ak verite a pou nou,
nou tout resevwa benediksyon nan men li youn apre lòt.
17 Paske Bondye te ba nou Lalwa pa mwayen Moyiz,
men lanmou ak verite a vini pa mwayen Jezikris.
18 Pa gen okenn moun ki janm wè Bondye Papa a.
Men, se sèl Pitit Bondye
a ki nan yon relasyon san parèy ak Papa a,
se li menm ki fè konnen kilès Papa a ye.[d]
Jan rann temwanyaj pou Jezi
(Mat 3:1-12; Mak 1:1-8; Lik 3:1-9, 15-17)
19 Men ki temwanyaj Jan te bay lè lidè Jwif yo nan Jerizalèm te voye kèk Sakrifikatè ak kèk Levit al mande l: “Ki moun ou ye?” 20 San l pa ezite, li di byen klè: “Se pa mwen ki Mesi a.”[e]
21 Alò, yo mande l: “ki moun ou ye? Èske ou se Eli?”
Li reponn: “Non, mwen pa Eli.”
Yo mande l: “Èske ou se pwofèt[f] la?”
Li reponn: “Non.”
22 Lè sa a, yo di li: “Ki moun ou ye menm? Ban nou yon repons pou n bay moun ki te voye nou yo. Ki sa ou di de ou menm?”
23 Jan site pawòl pwofèt Ezayi sa yo ba yo:
Mwen se vwa yon moun k ap pale byen fò nan dezè a, k ap di:
“prepare chemen Senyè a byen dwat.”(A)
24 Pami moun yo te voye kote Jan yo, kèk nan yo se te Farizyen. 25 Yo di Jan: “Si ou pa ni Mesi a, ni Eli, ni pwofèt ki gen pou vini an, alò, pou kisa ou ap batize moun?”
26 Jan reponn yo: “Mwen batize moun yo nan dlo. Men gen yon moun nan mitan nou, nou pa menm konnen l, 27 Li va vini apre m. Mwen pa bon ase pou m ta lage lasèt sandal li.”
28 Tout bagay sa yo te pase nan rejyon Betani, sou lòtbò rivyè Jouden an. Se la Jan t ap batize moun yo.
Jezi, mouton Bondye a
29 Nan demen, Jan wè Jezi ki t ap vini bò kote l, li di: “Gade, men mouton Bondye a! Se li ki wete peche lemonn. 30 Se de li menm mwen t ap pale nou, lè m te di: Gen yon moun ki gen pou vini apre m ki pi gran pase m, paske li te la anvan m. 31 Mwen pa t konnen ki moun li te ye. Men mwen te vin batize moun nan dlo pou pèp Izrayèl la ta konnen se li menm ki Mesi a.”
32 Men temwanyaj Jan te rann: “Mwen te wè Lespri Bondye desann soti nan syèl tankou yon pijon vin poze sou li. 33 Mwen menm, mwen pa t konnen li. Men, Bondye ki voye m vin batize moun nan dlo a te di m: Moun ou va wè Sentespri Bondye a desann poze sou li a, se li menm ki va batize moun ak Sentespri Bondye a. 34 Sa te rive vre, mwen te wè l, epi mwen sètifye Nonm sa se Pitit Bondye.”[g]
Premye disip Jezi yo
35 Nan demen ankò, Jan te la avèk de nan disip li yo. 36 Li t ap gade Jezi ki t ap pase epi li di: “Men li, men mouton[h] Bondye a!”
37 Lè de disip yo te tande sa Jan di a, yo swiv Jezi. 38 Jezi vire gade, epi li wè de mesye yo ap swiv li. Li mande yo: “kisa nou vle?”
Yo reponn: “Mèt, ki kote ou rete?”
39 Jezi reponn yo: “Vini, nou va wè.” Se kon sa de mesye sa yo te pati avèk Jezi. Yo te wè kote li rete, epi yo rete pase jounen an ak li. Se te bò katrè konsa.
40 Mesye sa yo te swiv Jezi apre yo fin tande sa Jan te di sou Jezi a. Andre, frè Simon Pyè a, te youn nan yo. 41 Premye bagay Andre fè, l al chache Simon, frè li. Andre di li: “Nou jwenn Mesi a” (ki vle di Kris).
42 Alò Andre mennen Simon bay Jezi. Jezi gade Simon epi li di l: “Ou se Simon, pitit Jonas, yo va rele w Sefas.”[i] (Sefas vle di Pyè ki vle di Wòch.)
43 Nan demen, Andre te vle pou yo al Galile pou chache Filip. Lè yo jwenn li, Jezi di li: “Swiv mwen.” 44 Filip te moun yon ti vil ki rele Bètsayida, menm kote ak Andre ak Pyè. 45 Filip te rankontre Natanayèl, li di l: “Nou jwenn moun Moyiz te pale sou li nan Lalwa a. Pwofèt yo te pale sou li tou. Se Jezi, pitit Jozèf la, moun Nazarèt la.”
46 Men, Natanayèl di Filip konsa: “Nazarèt! Èske gen yon bon bagay ki ka soti Nazarèt?”
Filip reponn li: “Vini, ou va wè.”
47 Jezi wè Natanayèl ki t ap vin jwenn li, li di: “Nonm sa a k ap vini an se yon Izrayelit toutbon, yon nonm moun ka fè konfyans.”[j]
48 Natanayèl di Jezi: “Kòman ou fè konnen mwen?”
Jezi reponn li: “Mwen te wè w lè ou te anba pye figye a, anvan menm Filip te rele w la.”
49 Alò Natanayèl reponn: “Mèt, ou se pitit Bondye a. Ou se Wa Izrayèl la.”
50 Jezi reponn li: “Ou kwè, paske m di w mwen te wè w anba pye figye a? Ou gen pou ou wè pi gwo bagay pase sa.” 51 Epi Jezi kontinye pou l di: “Nou mèt kwè m lè m di nou gen pou nou wè syèl la louvri epi anj Bondye yo k ap monte desann[k] sou Pitit Lòm nan.”
Footnotes
- 1:1 Pawòl Mo grèk la se “logos”, ki vle di nenpòt ki kalite kominikasyon. Yo kapab tradui l “mesaj”. Nan plas sa a, yo itilize l kòm yon non pou Jezi, ki se fason Bondye chwazi pale ak lemonn epi pale sou lanmou li pou tout moun. Se menm bagay nan vèsè 10, 14, 16.
- 1:5 Limyè Se Kris la, se Pawòl la ki pote konprann sou Bondye. Gade nan vèsè 7 la tou.
- 1:5 gen viktwa Nou kapab tradui “Pote viktwa sou li” oubyen “konprann li”.
- 1:18 Men, se sèl … Papa a ye Oubyen yon fason pi literal, “Sèl Pitit la, Bondye, ki nan yon relasyon sere sere ak Papa a, li menm montre nou sa l sanble.” Kèk lòt kopi grèk di: “Sèl Pitit gason an ki trè pwòch ak Papa a se li montre nou sa l sanble.”
- 1:20 Mesi a Literalman, “Kris”, se yon mo Grèk ki tradui mo Ebre “Mesi”, se yon tit yo konn bay wa yo, epi mo sa a vle di “Wenn” oubyen konsakre. Gade Kris ak Mesi nan Lis Mo yo.
- 1:21 pwofèt Li pwobab se pwofèt Bondye te di Moyiz li t ap voye a. Gade nan Det 18:15-18.
- 1:34 Nonm sa se Pitit Bondye Kèk nan kopi Grèk ki ansyen anpil, yo genyen “Se li ki moun Bondye chwazi a.”
- 1:36 mouton Yon non senbolik pou Jezikris. Li vle di Jezi se te yon ofrann pou peche menm jan ak ti mouton yo te konn bay Bondye pou sakrifis nan Ansyen Testaman an.
- 1:42 Sefas Nan lang grèk la se menm bagay ak lang Arameyen an, li vle di “Wòch”.
- 1:47 konfyans Literalman, “yon moun ki pa gen twou nan manch.” Nan Ansyen Testaman an, lòt non Izrayèl se te Jakòb kite vle di “Mèt dam”. Se repitasyon sa a li te genyen. Gade nan Jen 27:35, 36.
- 1:51 Sitasyon sa a soti nan Jen 28:12. Se yon pati nan istwa yon rèv Jakòb te fè, lè l te wè yon nechèl soti nan syèl rive sou latè epi anj ap monte desann sou li. Gade nan Jen 28:11-17.
John 1
New King James Version
The Eternal Word(A)
1 In the beginning (B)was the Word, and the (C)Word was (D)with God, and the Word was (E)God. 2 (F)He was in the beginning with God. 3 (G)All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 (H)In Him was life, and (I)the life was the light of men. 5 And (J)the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not [a]comprehend it.
John’s Witness: The True Light
6 There was a (K)man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a (L)witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might (M)believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that (N)Light. 9 (O)That[b] was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and (P)the world did not know Him. 11 (Q)He came to His [c]own, and His [d]own did not receive Him. 12 But (R)as many as received Him, to them He gave the [e]right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 (S)who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
The Word Becomes Flesh
14 (T)And the Word (U)became (V)flesh and dwelt among us, and (W)we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, (X)full of grace and truth.
15 (Y)John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, (Z)‘He who comes after me [f]is preferred before me, (AA)for He was before me.’ ”
16 [g]And of His (AB)fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For (AC)the law was given through Moses, but (AD)grace and (AE)truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 (AF)No one has seen God at any time. (AG)The only begotten [h]Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
A Voice in the Wilderness(AH)
19 Now this is (AI)the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20 (AJ)He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you (AK)the Prophet?”
And he answered, “No.”
22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
23 He said: (AL)“I am
(AM)‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
“Make straight the way of the Lord,” ’
as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24 Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees. 25 And they asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 John answered them, saying, (AN)“I baptize with water, (AO)but there stands One among you whom you do not know. 27 (AP)It is He who, coming after me, [i]is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”
28 These things were done (AQ)in [j]Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The Lamb of God(AR)
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! (AS)The Lamb of God (AT)who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who [k]is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ 31 I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, (AU)therefore I came baptizing with water.”
32 (AV)And John bore witness, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. 33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, (AW)this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and testified that this is the (AX)Son of God.”
The First Disciples
35 Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples. 36 And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, (AY)“Behold the Lamb of God!”
37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they (AZ)followed Jesus. 38 Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, “What do you seek?”
They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, when translated, Teacher), “where are You staying?”
39 He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour).
40 One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was (BA)Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the [l]Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus.
Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of [m]Jonah. (BB)You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, [n]A Stone).
Philip and Nathanael
43 The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found (BC)Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” 44 Now (BD)Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found (BE)Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom (BF)Moses in the law, and also the (BG)prophets, wrote—Jesus (BH)of Nazareth, the (BI)son of Joseph.”
46 And Nathanael said to him, (BJ)“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, (BK)an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
48 Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49 Nathanael answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, (BL)You are the Son of God! You are (BM)the King of Israel!”
50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 51 And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, (BN)hereafter[o] you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
Footnotes
- John 1:5 Or overcome
- John 1:9 Or That was the true Light which, coming into the world, gives light to every man.
- John 1:11 His own things or domain
- John 1:11 His own people
- John 1:12 authority
- John 1:15 ranks higher than I
- John 1:16 NU For
- John 1:18 NU God
- John 1:27 ranks higher than I
- John 1:28 NU, M Bethany
- John 1:30 ranks higher than I
- John 1:41 Lit. Anointed One
- John 1:42 NU John
- John 1:42 Gr. Petros, usually translated Peter
- John 1:51 NU omits hereafter
John 1
The Message
The Life-Light
1 1-2 The Word was first,
the Word present to God,
God present to the Word.
The Word was God,
in readiness for God from day one.
3-5 Everything was created through him;
nothing—not one thing!—
came into being without him.
What came into existence was Life,
and the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
the darkness couldn’t put it out.
6-8 There once was a man, his name John, sent by God to point out the way to the Life-Light. He came to show everyone where to look, who to believe in. John was not himself the Light; he was there to show the way to the Light.
9-13 The Life-Light was the real thing:
Every person entering Life
he brings into Light.
He was in the world,
the world was there through him,
and yet the world didn’t even notice.
He came to his own people,
but they didn’t want him.
But whoever did want him,
who believed he was who he claimed
and would do what he said,
He made to be their true selves,
their child-of-God selves.
These are the God-begotten,
not blood-begotten,
not flesh-begotten,
not sex-begotten.
14 The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.
15 John pointed him out and called, “This is the One! The One I told you was coming after me but in fact was ahead of me. He has always been ahead of me, has always had the first word.”
16-18 We all live off his generous abundance,
gift after gift after gift.
We got the basics from Moses,
and then this exuberant giving and receiving,
This endless knowing and understanding—
all this came through Jesus, the Messiah.
No one has ever seen God,
not so much as a glimpse.
This one-of-a-kind God-Expression,
who exists at the very heart of the Father,
has made him plain as day.
Thunder in the Desert
19-20 When Jews from Jerusalem sent a group of priests and officials to ask John who he was, he was completely honest. He didn’t evade the question. He told the plain truth: “I am not the Messiah.”
21 They pressed him, “Who, then? Elijah?”
“I am not.”
“The Prophet?”
“No.”
22 Exasperated, they said, “Who, then? We need an answer for those who sent us. Tell us something—anything!—about yourself.”
23 “I’m thunder in the desert: ‘Make the road straight for God!’ I’m doing what the prophet Isaiah preached.”
24-25 Those sent to question him were from the Pharisee party. Now they had a question of their own: “If you’re neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet, why do you baptize?”
26-27 John answered, “I only baptize using water. A person you don’t recognize has taken his stand in your midst. He comes after me, but he is not in second place to me. I’m not even worthy to hold his coat for him.”
28 These conversations took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing at the time.
The God-Revealer
29-31 The very next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and yelled out, “Here he is, God’s Passover Lamb! He forgives the sins of the world! This is the man I’ve been talking about, ‘the One who comes after me but is really ahead of me.’ I knew nothing about who he was—only this: that my task has been to get Israel ready to recognize him as the God-Revealer. That is why I came here baptizing with water, giving you a good bath and scrubbing sins from your life so you can get a fresh start with God.”
32-34 John clinched his witness with this: “I watched the Spirit, like a dove flying down out of the sky, making himself at home in him. I repeat, I know nothing about him except this: The One who authorized me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One on whom you see the Spirit come down and stay, this One will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ That’s exactly what I saw happen, and I’m telling you, there’s no question about it: This is the Son of God.”
Come, See for Yourself
35-36 The next day John was back at his post with two disciples, who were watching. He looked up, saw Jesus walking nearby, and said, “Here he is, God’s Passover Lamb.”
37-38 The two disciples heard him and went after Jesus. Jesus looked over his shoulder and said to them, “What are you after?”
They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 He replied, “Come along and see for yourself.”
They came, saw where he was living, and ended up staying with him for the day. It was late afternoon when this happened.
40-42 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s witness and followed Jesus. The first thing he did after finding where Jesus lived was find his own brother, Simon, telling him, “We’ve found the Messiah” (that is, “Christ”). He immediately led him to Jesus.
Jesus took one look up and said, “You’re John’s son, Simon? From now on your name is Cephas” (or Peter, which means “Rock”).
43-44 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. When he got there, he ran across Philip and said, “Come, follow me.” (Philip’s hometown was Bethsaida, the same as Andrew and Peter.)
45-46 Philip went and found Nathanael and told him, “We’ve found the One Moses wrote of in the Law, the One preached by the prophets. It’s Jesus, Joseph’s son, the one from Nazareth!” Nathanael said, “Nazareth? You’ve got to be kidding.”
But Philip said, “Come, see for yourself.”
47 When Jesus saw him coming he said, “There’s a real Israelite, not a false bone in his body.”
48 Nathanael said, “Where did you get that idea? You don’t know me.”
Jesus answered, “One day, long before Philip called you here, I saw you under the fig tree.”
49 Nathanael exclaimed, “Rabbi! You are the Son of God, the King of Israel!”
50-51 Jesus said, “You’ve become a believer simply because I say I saw you one day sitting under the fig tree? You haven’t seen anything yet! Before this is over you’re going to see heaven open and God’s angels descending to the Son of Man and ascending again.”
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