John 7

7 ¹ After all dis, Jesus waka dey go round Galilee, e no wan go Judea, because di Jewish leaders for dat side dey find chance to kill am. ² But di Jewish Festival of Booths don near. ^a a v2 Di Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) na festival wey dey last one week for harvest time, wen Israel dey stay for tent-tent, dey remember di years wey dem waka for wilderness. ³ Im brodas tell am say, “Comot for here go Judea, so dat your disciples fit see di works wey you dey do too.” ⁴ Person wey wan make people know am no dey hide wetin e dey do. If na dis kind things you dey do, show yourself to di world. ⁵ Because even im own brodas no believe am.

⁶ So Jesus tell dem say, “My time never reach, but for una, any time dey correct. ⁷ Di world no fit hate una, but e dey hate me, because I dey talk say di things wey e dey do na bad thing. ⁸ Una una go up go di festival; me I no dey go up dis festival, because my time never fully reach.”

⁹ After e talk dis one, e stay for Galilee. ¹⁰ After im brodas go up to di festival, e too go up — but no be openly, na quiet-quiet.

¹¹ So di Jewish leaders dey find am for di festival, dey ask, “Na where e dey?” ¹² Plenty yanmayanma about am spread among di crowd: some talk say, “E good,” odas say, “No o, e dey lead di crowd astray.” ¹³ But nobody talk about am openly, because dem dey fear di Jewish leaders. ¹⁴ Wen di festival don reach half-way, Jesus go up into di temple, e start to dey teach.

¹⁵ Di Jewish leaders wonder, dem ask, “How dis man take sabi plenty like dis wey e no learn book?”

¹⁶ Jesus answer dem say, “My teaching no be my own—e come from di one wey send me. ¹⁷ Anybody wey wan do di will of our Papa go sabi weda my teaching come from my Papa abi na my own head I dey talk from. ¹⁸ Person wey dey talk from im own head dey find im own glory, but person wey dey find di glory of di one wey send am na true person, no lie dey inside am. ¹⁹ No be Moses give una di law? But nobody among una dey obey di law. Wetin make una dey try to kill me?”

²⁰ Di crowd answer say, “You get demon! Na who dey try to kill you?”

²¹ Jesus reply say, “I do one work, and una all dey wonder. ²² Moses give una circumcision — no be say e come from Moses, na from di papa-papa dem — and una dey circumcise man for Sabbath. ²³ If dem fit circumcise man for Sabbath so dat di law of Moses no go break, wetin make una vex for me because I make one whole man well for Sabbath? ²⁴ Make una stop to dey judge by wetin eye see, judge with correct judgment.”

Na Where Him Come From?

²⁵ Den some people from Jerusalem talk say, “No be dis man be di one wey dem wan kill? ²⁶ But see am dey talk openly, and dem no talk anything to am. Abi di rulers don truly know say na dis one be di Christ? ²⁷ But we sabi where dis man come from. Wen di Christ go come, nobody go know where e come from.”

²⁸ Den Jesus, as e dey teach for temple, shout say, “Una sabi me, and una know where I come from. But I no come on my own—di one wey send me na true, and una no sabi am. ²⁹ I sabi am, because na from am I come, and na im send me.”

³⁰ So dem try to grab am, but nobody touch am, because im hour never reach. ³¹ But plenty for di crowd believe am, dem dey ask, “Wen di Christ come, e go do more signs pass wetin dis man do?” ³² Di Pharisees hear di crowd dey yanmayanma dis things about am, so di chief priests and Pharisees send temple guards go catch am.

³³ So Jesus talk say, “I still dey with una small time again, den I go go di one wey send me. ³⁴ Una go find me but una no go see me; where I dey, una no fit come.”

³⁵ So di Jewish leaders ask each oda say, “Na where dis man wan go wey we no go fit find am? E wan go meet our people wey scatter among di Greeks, go teach di Greeks? ³⁶ Wetin e mean wey e talk say: ‘Una go find me, but una no go see me,’ and ‘Where I dey, una no fit come’?”

³⁷ For di last day of di festival, di big day, Jesus stand up, e shout say, “If anybody dey thirsty, make e come to me, make e drink. ³⁸ Anybody wey believe me, as Scripture talk, rivers of living water go flow comot from im heart.”

³⁹ E talk dis one about di Holy Spirit, wey people wey believe am go later receive; di Spirit never dey give-out yet, because Jesus never enter im glory yet.

⁴⁰ Wen dem hear dis words, some for di crowd talk say, “Dis one na di Prophet for true.” ⁴¹ Odas talk say, “Na dis one be di Christ.” But odas ask say, “How Christ go take come from Galilee? ⁴² No be Scripture talk say di Christ go come from di line of David and from Bethlehem, di village of David?” ⁴³ So di crowd divide over am. ⁴⁴ Some of dem wan catch am, but nobody put hand on am.

⁴⁵ So di temple guards go back go meet di chief priests and Pharisees, wey ask dem, “Wetin make una no bring am?”

⁴⁶ Di guards answer say, “Nobody don ever talk di way dis man dey talk.”

⁴⁷ “Una too don let dem deceive una?” di Pharisees answer. ⁴⁸ “Any of di rulers abi di Pharisees don believe am? ⁴⁹ But dis crowd, wey no sabi anything about di law — curse dey on dem.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus, wey bin go meet Jesus before and na one of dem, ask dem say, ⁵¹ “Abi our law dey condemn man before dem first hear am and find out wetin e dey do?”

⁵² Dem reply say, “You too na from Galilee? Search am, and see: no prophet dey rise from Galilee.”

⁵³ Den dem all go dem house,