John, 15

1. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

1. "Ja sam istinski trs, a Otac moj - vinogradar.

2. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit.

2. Svaku lozu na meni koja ne donosi roda on sijeèe, a svaku koja rod donosi èisti da više roda donese.

3. You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you.

3. Vi ste veæ oèišæeni po rijeèi koju sam vam zborio.

4. Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so also are you unable, unless you abide in me.

4. Ostanite u meni i ja u vama. Kao što loza ne može donijeti roda sama od sebe, ako ne ostane na trsu, tako ni vi ako ne ostanete u meni.

5. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing.

5. Ja sam trs, vi loze. Tko ostaje u meni i ja u njemu, taj donosi mnogo roda. Uistinu, bez mene ne možete uèiniti ništa.

6. If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns.

6. Ako tko ne ostane u meni, izbace ga kao lozu i usahne. Takve onda skupe i bace u oganj te gore.

7. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

7. Ako ostanete u meni i rijeèi moje ako ostanu u vama, što god hoæete, ištite i bit æe vam.

8. In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.

8. Ovim se proslavlja Otac moj: da donosite mnogo roda i da budete moji uèenici.

9. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.

9. Kao što je Otac ljubio mene tako sam i ja ljubio vas; ostanite u mojoj ljubavi.

10. If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love.

10. Budete li èuvali moje zapovijedi, ostat æete u mojoj ljubavi; kao što sam i ja èuvao zapovijedi Oca svoga te ostajem u ljubavi njegovoj.

11. These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled.

11. To sam vam govorio da moja radost bude u vama i da vaša radost bude potpuna.

12. This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

12. Ovo je moja zapovijed: ljubite jedni druge kao što sam ja vas ljubio!

13. No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

13. Veæe ljubavi nitko nema od ove: da tko život svoj položi za svoje prijatelje.

14. You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.

14. Vi ste prijatelji moji ako èinite što vam zapovijedam.

15. I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

15. Više vas ne zovem slugama jer sluga ne zna što radi njegov gospodar; vas sam nazvao prijateljima jer vam priopæih sve što sam èuo od Oca svoga.

16. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.

16. Ne izabraste vi mene, nego ja izabrah vas i postavih vas da idete i rod donosite i rod vaš da ostane te vam Otac dadne što ga god zaištete u moje ime.

17. This I command you: that you love one another.

17. Ovo vam zapovijedam: da ljubite jedni druge."

18. If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.

18. "Ako vas svijet mrzi, znajte da je mene mrzio prije nego vas.

19. If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.

19. Kad biste bili od svijeta, svijet bi svoje ljubio; no buduæi da niste od svijeta, nego sam vas ja izabrao iz svijeta, zbog toga vas svijet mrzi.

20. Remember my saying that I told you: The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

20. Sjeæajte se rijeèi koju vam rekoh: 'Nije sluga veæi od svoga gospodara.' Ako su mene progonili, i vas æe progoniti; ako su moju rijeè èuvali, da vašu æe èuvati.

21. But all these things they will do to you because of my name, for they do not know him who sent me.

21. A sve æe to poduzimati protiv vas poradi imena moga jer ne znaju onoga koji mene posla.

22. If I had not come and had not spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

22. Da nisam došao i da im nisam govorio, ne bi imali grijeha; no sada nemaju izgovora za svoj grijeh.

23. Whoever hates me, hates my Father also.

23. Tko mene mrzi, mrzi i Oca mojega.

24. If I had not accomplished among them works that no other person has accomplished, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen me, and they have hated me and my Father.

24. Da nisam uèinio meðu njima djela kojih nitko drugi ne èini, ne bi imali grijeha; a sada vidješe pa ipak zamrziše i mene i Oca mojega.

25. But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: ‘For they hated me without cause.’

25. No neka se ispuni rijeè napisana u njihovu Zakonu: Mrze me nizašto.

26. But when the Advocate has arrived, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will offer testimony about me.

26. A kada doðe Branitelj koga æu vam poslati od Oca - Duh Istine koji od Oca izlazi - on æe svjedoèiti za mene.

27. And you shall offer testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.”

27. I vi æete svjedoèiti jer ste od poèetka sa mnom.