Jan 4
1 Farisien nba n gbadi ki ti yonbdaano laadi bi niba ki wuulibi U Tienu ñima ki cie San.
Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--
2 I mɔni Jesu ka bi wulibi, o ŋuantieba n bi wulibi,
though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--
3 ko ñani Jude ki guani ki lebdi Galile
He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.
4 Li den tie mabili k wan tɔgni Samari,
His road lay through Samaria,
5 k o caa ki te pundi Samari dogbigi ba ki bi yiil Sisaari, lii bo fagi yeni Jakobi n den teni o bijua Sosiaf ya tingi yeni kani.
and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Ki jakobi caali bo ye li kani, ki Jesu cuon cuoni ki te cɔgi, ki ji kaa li caali kani, li den tie nani kudi lie yeni.
Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.
7 Ki Samari pua ba cua ki bua luuni mi ñima ki ñu.
Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;
8 Kilima o yegni den gedi o dogun, ki bua lingi li bonjekaali
for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.
9 Ki Samari dogun pua ne maadi o: ledi ki fin Juufi buali min Samari pua mi ñima po i? kilima juufi nba yeni Samari yabi bo ki mani.
"How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Ki Jesu guani ki ŋmiani o: a ya bani U Tienu paabi, ki bani yua n miadi mi ñima ki bua ñu ne, fini mɔno bo bi miagu mi ñima, ki wan ten a mi ñinŋanbi.
"If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, 'Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
11 K ol pua ne maadi, ti yonbidaano ŋaa pia bonli ki bi luuni, ki li caalio mɔ gɔ ñua, a bua la le i li ñunŋanbi?
"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?
12 fin n cie ti baa jakobi yua n den teni ti li caali? li caali ki wani yeni o bila yeni o bonkobdi kuli ñu.
Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"
13 Ki Jesu ŋmiani o: ya nibi kuli ñuni mi ñimi ne, o ñuñuni gɔ ba cuobi.
"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;
15 O pua yeni n maadi o: ti yonbidaano ten nni li ñima, ki ñuñuun n ji da baa ki cuon, ki min ji da baa cua ne ki luuni mi ñuma.
"Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."
16 Ki Jesu maadi o, ki wan gedi ki pan yiini o calo n cua na.
"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."
17 O pua yeni jiini, mii pia ja. Ki Jesu yedi o, a maadi mɔni ki ŋaa pia ja i.
"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;
18 Kilima, a pia jabi mui, ki ŋan gɔ ye yeni yua mɔlane mɔ ki tie a calo ka. A li yedi i mɔni.
"for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that."
19 O pua yeni jiini, ti Diedo, n bani k a tie U Tienu tondu i.
"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.
20 Ti baa nba den dondi U Tienu li juali ne po i; ki yinbi ji yedi ki jerusalem n pia naan kani ki baa dondi U Tienu.
Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
21 Ki Jesu ŋmiani o pua yeni, ŋanbi ki cengi n maami, o yogu baadi ki ji te kan gedi li juali po ki buali jerusalem ka, ki bua dondi ti diedo (baa U Tienu).
"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 Yinbi wani dondi yin ki bani yua i, ki tinbi dondi tin bani yua, kilima gaapo ñani juufi nba kani.
You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 Ama o yogu cuoni, li yogu pundi mɔno, yaabi n dondi ti baa U Tienu yeni bi pali, i mɔmɔni nni, kilima ti baa U Tienu kpaani yaabi n baa pug o i.
But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.
24 U Tienu tie fuoŋanbi ki ya dondo yeni i mɔmɔni.
God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."
25 K o pua yeni maad o: N bani k U Tienu tondu bi cua (yua ki bi yigu krisu) o ti ya cua, o bi waani a bona kuli.
"I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming--'the Christ,' as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."
26 Jesu n maad o: min mɔno, min yua maadi yen a ne.
"I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."
27 Li yognu ki jesu yegni guani, ki li yaakilidib yeni ban lagu k o pagi yeni Samari pua. Ama oba naa tuo ki buali wan kpaani bii wan pagi yen o yaali ya po.
Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
28 Ko pua yeni ji ŋaa o cuali, ki lebdi o dogun ki pan maadi bi niba.
The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.
29 Cua mani ki diidi ya ja n maadi n min sɔni yaali kuli, wan ka baa tie krisui?
"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"
30 Ki bi nibi ñani o dogun ki cua jesu kani.
They left the town and set out to go to Him.
31 Ki li yognu, k o yegni balimo k wan di, ki tua Rabi ya di.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."
32 Ama ki Jesu maadi ba: min pia ya jiem ki ba je yeni, i ki ban li.
"I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."
33 K o yegni ji maadi bi ŋmiali nni: ki nul n baa ten o mi jiema k o jen biii?
So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"
34 Ki jesu yedi bi: n jiedi tie ki min sɔni yua n sɔni nni n bua yaali, ki sɔni o tuona kuli ki juodi.
"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
35 Yi maadi ki bontutugu yogu sieni ŋmaali na kaa i? Diidi mani, n maadi; yaadi mani ki diidi o kpaabi, li ji pieni fuaa, o bonyendi yogu pundo.
Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.
36 Yua pedi i dii, wan ga o paagu, o ji taandi li bona ki ŋuundi ya miali ki pia gbemi bualin, ki lan fidi ki yua den buli yeni yua n pedi n ya ye li pamanli nni. (aiōnios g166)
The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 Kilima ban maadi yaali tie i mɔni, yua buli ye oba i, ki yua pedi mɔ ye oba.
For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'
38 N suani ki yin gedi ki pedi ya kpaabu ki dee koni; bi tɔbi n den koni li kpaabu ki la fala, ki yinbi ji bi je bi fala ñuadi.
I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."
39 Samari dogu n nibi boncianli bi tuo jesu, kilima o pua yeni bi bi maadiba: o maadn min baa suani yaali kuli n yenyienu n.
Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."
40 Samari yaabi cua ki la jesu, ki bi balimo ki wan cua k ya ye yenbi, k o tieni bi kani daa lie.
When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41 Ki bi niba boncianli duu o po, ki dugni o maami po.
Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,
42 Ki bi maadi o pua yeni: laa tie ki ŋan yedi ti yaali ka cedi ki ti du o po; tinbi mɔno den tuodi gbadi yeni i mɔni k wan n tie ŋanduna gaapo.
and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."
43 Li dana lie n pendi, ki jesu ñani li dogun ni ki gedi Gaaliile.
After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee;
44 Kilima wan mɔno bi maadi k U Tienu tondikaabi kan la li cɔligu bi dogun yaabi kani.
though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.
45 Wan pundi Gaaliile, k li dogun yaabi ŋanbi ki gaagu, ki bi den la wan den tieni yaali Jerusalem m jaam yogu, k li ma bi mɔ den gedi k b di li jaami.
When however He reached Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been eye-witnesses of all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Festival; for they also had been to the Festival.
46 K o guani ki lebdi Kaana, Gaaliile dogun ni, naani k o bi cedi k mi ñim kpandi o damɔngu. L sua ki yiko daano ba ye Kafarnawum k o bigi yia.
So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.
47 Wan gbadi ki jesu ñani Jude ki cua Gaaliile, k o nagni o kani ki miagu sugli ki wan mɔndi ki jiidi Kafarnawum k tebi o bijua, li sua ki li bigi nuud mi kuumo.
Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.
48 Ki jesu maadi o: i ya la ti palidi yeni yaalidigu bona, i kan baa ki duu n po.
"Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."
49 K li yiko daano maadi o: ti yonbidaano cua tin gedi ki sua ki bigi da ki kpe.
"Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."
50 Ki jesu maadi o: ya kuni, a bijua paag o. K o gaa jesu n yedi o ya laabaali ki ji kuni.
"You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;
51 O den paa o san po i, k o tuonsɔnla tuog o ki maad o, a bijua paago.
and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.
52 K o bualib ya yognu po k o won paagi, ki bi maadi o: k wonli kudlele yognu k o gbanu won sɔngi
So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him."
53 K bi baa tiadi k li yognu k jesu won maad o k o bigi paag o. Li daali ki wani yeni o deni yaabi kuani bi dindanli jesu nni.
Then the father recollected that that was the time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son has recovered," and he and his whole household became believers.
54 Ki jesu ñan Jude ki guani Gaaliile guani ki tieni yaalidigu bona taalm lie po.
This is the second miracle that Jesus performed, after coming from Judaea into Galilee.
