The Thing Dem Da John Write
5 After this one, it wor time for the Jews to celebrate the festival, and Jesus went to Jerusalem. 2 They wor having one water near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem. In Hebrew they call it Beth·za′tha, and five porch dem wor around this water.* 3 And da on this porch dem plenty people who wor sick, blind, and cripple wor laying down. 4* —— 5 But one man who been sick for 38 years wor there. 6 Jesus saw the man laying down and because he knew da the man been sick for long time, he ask him: “You want get well?” 7 The sick man tell him say: “I not get anybody to put me in the water when it start shaking. But when I start going, other people can pass by me and enter the water.” 8 Jesus tell him say: “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 And right away the man got well, and he pick up his mat and started walking.
It wor on the Sabbath Day. 10 So the Jews started telling the man who Jesus heal: “Today da the Sabbath Day, and it not right for you to carry your mat.” 11 But he tell them say: “The same person who heal me da he tell me say, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” 12 They ask him: “Who the man da tell you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” 13 But the man who got heal never knew the person da heal him, because Jesus went among the plenty people da wor there.
14 After this one, Jesus saw him in the temple and tell him say: “See, you na get well. Don’t sin again, so da something bad can’t happen to you more than the first one.” 15 The man went to the Jews and tell them da Jesus made him well. 16 So the Jews started treating Jesus bad because he wor doing this thing dem on the Sabbath day. 17 But he tell them say: “My Father continue working until now, and myself too I continue working.” 18 This one make the Jews to start looking for all kindna way to kill him, because he wor not only breaking the Law about the Sabbath Day but he wor also calling God his own Father, making hisself equal to God.
19 So, Jesus tell them say: “To tell yor the truth, the Son can’t do anything on his own, but he can only do the thing dem he see the Father doing. Anything the Father do, the Son can do it the same way the Father do it. 20 The Father get deep love for the Son and He can show him everything he na do. And He will show him thing dem* da more important than this one so da yor can really be surprise. 21 Because just how the Father can bring people who na die back to life, the Son can also bring anybody who he want bring back to life. 22 The Father can’t judge anybody, but he give his Son the work to judge people, 23 so da everybody can respect the Son just how they respect the Father. And anybody who not respect the Son, he not respect the Father who send him. 24 To tell yor the truth, anybody who hear the thing dem I say and believe the Person who send me will get everlasting life. And he will not be judge but he will be just like somebody who die and come back to life.
25 “To tell yor the truth, the time coming, and it na start, when the people who die will hear God Son voice, and those who listen and obey will live. 26 Because just how the Father hisself can give life, he also allow the Son to be able to give life. 27 And he na give him the power to judge people, because he the Son of man. 28 This thing dem mon not surprise yor, because the time coming when all the people in the grave who God remember will hear his Son voice 29 and they will come outside. The people dem who do good things will get everlasting life, but the people dem who do bad things will come back to life and be judge. 30 I can’t do anything on my own. But I can judge people from what the Father tell me. And I can judge them the right way because I can’t do my own thing, but I can do just what the Father who send me tell me to do.
31 “If da only me can tell people about myself, they will not believe me. 32 But another person can tell people about me, and I know the thing dem he can say about me da true. 33 Yor na send people to John, and he tell them the truth about me. 34 But I not need anybody to tell people about me, but I say this thing dem so da yor can get life. 35 John wor looking just like lamp da bright and shining, and for short time yor wor ready to be happy in his light. 36 John tell the people dem da I coming from the Father. But I get strong proof da the Father send me, because I doing the work da the Father send me to do. And it show da I coming from the Father. 37 And the Father who send me tell people about me. Yor never hear his voice before and yor never see how he looking, 38 and yor not believe the person God send, because yor not get his word in your heart.
39 “Yor can take time to study the Scriptures because yor think yor will get everlasting life because of it, and da the same Scripture dem talk about me. 40 But still yor not want follow me so da yor can get everlasting life. 41 I not want people to praise me, 42 but I really know da yor not get love for God in yor heart. 43 I come in my Father name, but yor not welcome me. But if another person come in their own name, yor will welcome him. 44 How yor will believe me when yor like for people to praise yor, and yor not trying to please God so da he can praise yor? 45 Don’t feel say I will tell my Father da yor na do bad. Da one person say yor na do bad, and da Moses, the man who yor trust. 46 In fact, if yor believe Moses, then yor will believe me because he write about me. 47 But if yor not believe the thing dem he write, then how yor will believe the thing dem I say?”