ヨハネの福音書 4
1 主、おのれの弟子を造り、之にバプテスマを施すこと、ヨハネよりも多しと、パリサイ人に聞えたるを知り給ひし時、
[At that time, many people were asking] Jesus to baptize them. He did not baptize people; it was [we] his disciples who were doing the baptizing. But when some of the Pharisee [religious group] heard [people say that] Jesus was making more disciples than John [the Baptizer] and was baptizing them, [they became very jealous].
2 （その實イエス自らバプテスマを施ししにあらず、その弟子たちなり）
3 ユダヤを去りて復ガリラヤに往き給ふ。
When the Lord [Jesus] heard about that, [so that the Pharisees would not cause trouble for him], he left Judea [district], and went again [with us disciples] to Galilee district.
4 サマリヤを經ざるを得ず。
[He] knew that God wanted him to travel through Samaria [district].
5 サマリヤのスカルといふ町にいたり給へるが、この町はヤコブその子ヨセフに與へし土地に近くして、
So we arrived at a town named Sychar in Samaria [district]. That was near the plot of ground that [our ancestor] Jacob had given to his son Joseph [long ago].
6 此處にヤコブの泉あり。イエス旅路に疲れて泉の傍らに坐し給ふ、時は第六 時 頃なりき。
The well that [used to] belong to Jacob was on that plot of ground. Jesus was tired from walking. So while [we] disciples went into the town to buy some food, he sat down alongside the well. It was about noontime. A woman who [lived there] in Samaria came to get some water [from the well]. Jesus said to her, “Will you give me [from the well] some water [to drink]?” The [woman knew that] Jews did not like ([to touch things that belong to] Samaritans/[to] come near Samaritans), (OR, Jews did not like to associate with Samaritans, )
7 サマリヤの或 女、水を汲まんとて來りたれば、イエス之に『われに飮ませよ』と言ひたまふ。
8 弟子たちは食物を買はんとて町にゆきしなり。
9 サマリヤの女いふ『なんぢはユダヤ人なるに、如何なればサマリヤの女なる我に、飮むことを求むるか』これはユダヤ人とサマリヤ人とは交りせぬ故なり。
so the woman said to him, “You are a Jew, and I am from Samaria. Furthermore, I am a woman. So ([I am surprised] that you are asking me for a drink [of water]!/how is it that you are asking me for a drink [of water]?) [RHQ]”
10 イエス答へて言ひ給ふ『なんぢ若し神の賜物を知り、また「我に飮ませよ」といふ者の誰なるを知りたらんには、之に求めしならん、さらば汝に活ける水を與へしものを』
Jesus replied to her, “If you [(sg)] knew what God [wanted to] give you, and if you knew who I am, the one who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked me, and I would have given you water that gives life.”
11 女いふ『主よ、なんぢは汲む物を持たず、井は深し、その活ける水は何處より得しぞ。
She [thought he was talking about] ordinary [water. So she] said to him, “Sir, you do not have a bucket [or a rope with which to get water from the well], and the well is deep. So [since you cannot get water from this well], where can you get that life-giving water?
12 汝はこの井を我らに與へし我らの父ヤコブよりも大なるか、彼も、その子らも、その家畜も、これより飮みたり』
Our ancestor Jacob left us this well. He drank water from it, and there was [enough good water] so that his sons and his flocks [of sheep] and goats drank from it also. [Do you claim that] you are greater than Jacob, [and because of that you can give us life-giving water]?”
13 イエス答へて言ひ給ふ『すべて此の水をのむ者は、また渇かん。
Jesus replied to her, “Everyone who drinks water from this [well] will later become thirsty again.
15 女いふ『主よ、わが渇くことなく、又ここに汲みに來ぬために、その水を我にあたへよ』
The woman [did not understand that Jesus was speaking figuratively about something that would sustain her spiritually. So she] said to him, “Sir, give me that kind of water so that I will not get thirsty again, and so that I will not have to keep returning here to get water!”
16 イエス言ひ給ふ『ゆきて夫をここに呼びきたれ』
[Jesus knew that she did not understand, but he wanted to show her by his God-given knowledge of her personal life that because he was the Messiah he could supply her spiritual need. So] he said to her, “Woman, go and call your husband, and bring him here!”
17 女こたへて言ふ『われに夫なし』イエス言ひ給ふ『夫なしといふは宜なり。
She replied, “I do not have a husband!” Jesus said to her, “You said that you do not have a husband, and that is true.
18 夫は五 人までありしが、今ある者はなんぢの夫にあらず。無しと云へるは眞なり』
It is also true that you have had five husbands [one by one]. And the man you are living with now is not your husband! What you have said is very true.”
19 女いふ『主よ、我なんぢを預言者とみとむ。
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive you must be a prophet [because you are] able [to know people’s secrets].
20 我らの先祖たちは此の山にて拜したるに、汝らは拜すべき處をエルサレムなりと言ふ』
But [let me ask you a different question]: Our ancestors worshipped God here on [Gerizim Mountain], but you [Jews] say that Jerusalem is the place where we must worship [God. So who is right]?”
21 イエス言ひ給ふ『をんなよ、我が言ふことを信ぜよ、此の山にもエルサレムにもあらで、汝ら父を拜する時きたるなり。
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me [when I say that] there will be a time when it will not [matter whether] you worship [God our] Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem [or somewhere else].
22 汝らは知らぬ者を拜し、我らは知る者を拜す、救はユダヤ人より出づればなり。
You [people from Samaria] do not know the one you are worshipping. But we [(exc) Jews] know whom we worship, because it is from [us] Jews that [God has sent the one who] will save people [from the guilt of their sins].
23 されど眞の禮拜者の、靈と眞とをもて父を拜する時きたらん、今すでに來れり。父はかくのごとく拜する者を求めたまふ。
However, there will be a time when those who genuinely worship God will worship him as [God’s] Spirit [directs] and according to [God’s] truth. In fact, that time is now. Those are the kind of worshipers my Father seeks.
24 神は靈なれば、拜する者も靈と眞とをもて拜すべきなり』
God is a spiritual being. So it is necessary that those who worship him must worship him as his Spirit [directs] and [according to God’s] truth.”
25 女いふ『我はキリストと稱ふるメシヤの來ることを知る、彼きたらば諸般のことを我らに告げん』
The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will tell us everything [we need to know].” (‘Messiah’ and ‘Christ’ [both mean ‘God’s promised king]’.)
26 イエス言ひ給ふ『なんぢと語る我はそれなり』
Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am [the Messiah]!”
27 時に弟子たち歸りきたりて、女と語り給ふを怪しみたれど、何を求め給ふか、何 故かれと語り給ふかと問ふもの誰もなし。
Just then [we] disciples returned [from town]. [Since it was contrary to our custom for Jewish religious teachers to converse with a woman they did not know], we were surprised that he was talking to a woman. However, none of us asked her, “What do you want?” and none of us asked him, “Why are you talking with her?”
28 ここに女その水瓶を遺しおき、町にゆきて人々にいふ、
The woman left her water jar there and went into the town. She said to the people there,
29 『來りて見よ、わが爲しし事をことごとく我に告げし人を。この人あるいはキリストならんか』
“Come and see a man who [was able to] tell me all about my past life [HYP], [even though I never met him before] Could this man be the Messiah?”
30 人々 町を出でてイエスの許にゆく。
So [many people] left the town and started going to where Jesus was.
31 この間に弟子たち請ひて言ふ『ラビ、食し給へ』
Meanwhile, we disciples were urging him, “Teacher, eat [some of the food we brought]!”
32 イエス言ひたまふ『我には汝らの知らぬ我が食する食物あり』
But he said to us, “I have food to eat that you do not know anything about!”
33 弟子たち互にいふ『たれか食する物を持ち來りしか』
So we started saying to each other, “(Surely no one has brought him any food [when we] were not [here]!/Has anyone brought him any food [when we] were not [here]?) [RHQ]”
34 イエス言ひ給ふ『われを遣し給へる物の御意を行ひ、その御業をなし遂ぐるは、是わが食物なり。
Jesus said to us, “Doing what [my Father] who sent me wants [me to do] and finishing the work he [gave me to do] is ([what sustains me/like] my food) [MET].
35 なんぢら收穫時の來るには、なほ四月ありと言はずや。我なんぢらに告ぐ、目をあげて畑を見よ、はや黄ばみて收穫時になれり。
[At this time of the year] you are saying (OR, your ancestors used to say), ‘There are four months left before we harvest [the crops].’ But I say to you, look carefully [at the non-Jewish people around here. God says, ‘They are ready to accept my message] [MET], [like crops in] fields that are ready for people to harvest.
[If you help them to accept my message], I will reward you [MET], [as an owner of a field] pays those who harvest the crops. Because of your work, people will gain eternal life.’ [I have been telling people God’s message. That is like] [MET] a man who plants seeds. [You will help people to accept my message. That will be like] [MET] harvesting crops. [When that happens], both you and I will rejoice. (aiōnios g166)
37 俚諺に、彼は播き此は刈るといへるは、斯において眞なり。
As a result, this saying will become true: One person plants [seeds], but others harvest [the crops].
38 我なんぢらを遣して、勞せざりしものを刈らしむ。他の人々さきに勞し、汝らはその勞を收むるなり』
I am sending you [to enable people to accept my message, but you will not be the first ones who tell them God’s message]. Others [previously] worked hard [to tell people God’s message], and now you will be harvesting the results of their work.”
39 此の町の多くのサマリヤ人、女の『わが爲しし事をことごとく告げし』と證したる言によりてイエスを信じたり。
Many of the Samaria [district] people who [lived] in that town believed that Jesus [was the Messiah] because they heard what that woman said [about Jesus], “That man [was able to] tell me all about my past life [HYP]!”
40 かくてサマリヤ人 御許にきたりて、此の町に留らんことを請ひたれば、此處に二日とどまり給ふ。
So when those people of Samaria came to Jesus, they urged him to stay with them. So we stayed there two days.
41 御言によりて猶もおほくの人 信じたり。
Many more of those people believed ([in Jesus/that he was the Messiah]) because of what he said.
42 かくて女に言ふ『今われらの信ずるは、汝のかたる言によるにあらず、親しく聽きて、これは眞に世の救主なりと知りたる故なり』
They told the woman, “We believe in Jesus [now], but not [just] because of what you told us. Now we have heard him ourselves. And now we know that this man truly is the one who [can] save [people] [MTY] [from the guilt of their sins].”
43 二日の後、イエスここを去りてガリラヤに往き給ふ。
Jesus had said [previously] that people did not honor prophets [like himself when they tried to teach people] in their own home area. So, two days later, Jesus and [we] disciples left that area and went to [his own area in] Galilee [district, because he knew that people there would not think very highly of him, and as a result the Jewish leaders would not be jealous].
44 イエス自ら證して、預言者は己が郷にて尊ばるる事なしと言ひ給へり。
45 かくてガリラヤに往き給へば、ガリラヤ人これを迎へたり。前に彼らも祭に上り、その祭の時にエルサレムにて行ひ給ひし事を見たる故なり。
However, when we arrived in Galilee [district, many] of the people there welcomed him, because they had been in Jerusalem during the [Passover] celebration and had seen all the things he did there.
46 イエス復ガリラヤのカナに往き給ふ、ここは前に水を葡萄酒になし給ひし處なり。時に王の近臣あり、その子カペナウムにて病みゐたれば、
Jesus went again to Cana in Galilee [district]. That was where he [previously] turned water into wine. There was one of the king’s officials who lived in Capernaum, whose son was very sick.
47 イエスのユダヤよりガリラヤに來り給へるを聞き、御許にゆきて、カペナウムに下りその子を醫し給はんことを請ふ、子は死ぬばかりなりしなり。
When that man heard [others say] that Jesus had returned to Galilee [district] from Judea [district], he went to Jesus [in Cana] and pleaded with him, “Please come down [to Capernaum] and heal my son, who is about to die!”
48 ここにイエス言ひ給ふ『なんぢら徴と不思議とを見ずば、信ぜじ』
Jesus said to him, “You people will believe my message only if you see me perform [more] miracles!”
49 近臣いふ『主よ、わが子の死なぬ間に下り給へ』
But the official said to him, “Sir, ([I] believe [in you/I believe that you came from God]). [So please] come down [to my home] before my son dies!”
50 イエス言ひ給ふ『かへれ、汝の子は生くるなり』彼はイエスの言ひ給ひしことを信じて歸りしが、
Jesus said to him, “Then you may go [home]. Your son (will live/not die)!” The man believed what Jesus said, and left.
51 下る途中、僕ども往き遇ひて、その子の生きたることを告ぐ。
[The next day] while he was on the way home, his servants met him. They told him, “Your child is going to live!”
52 その癒えはじめし時を問ひしに『昨日の第七 時に熱 去れり』といふ。
He asked them, “At what time did my son start to become well?” They said to him, “His fever ceased yesterday [afternoon] at one o’clock.”
53 父その時の、イエスが『なんぢの子は生くるなり』と言ひ給ひし時と同じきを知り、而して己も家の者もみな信じたり。
Then the boy’s father realized that this was the time Jesus told him, “Your son will (live/not die).” So he and all the people in his house believed [that Jesus was the Messiah].
54 是はイエス、ユダヤよりガリラヤに往きて爲し給へる第二の徴なり。
That was the second miracle that Jesus performed in Galilee [district], after he had returned from Judea [district].
