UJohane 4
1 Kwathi-ke iNkosi isisazi ukuthi abaFarisi sebezwile ukuthi uJesu wenza wabhabhathiza abafundi abanengi kuloJohane,
When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John
2 lanxa uJesu ngokwakhe wayengabhabhathizi, kodwa abafundi bakhe,
(however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),
3 wasuka eJudiya, wasuka waya futhi eGalili.
he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.
4 Kodwa kwakumele ukuthi adabule eSamariya.
And he must needs pass through Samaria.
5 Wafika-ke emzini weSamariya okuthiwa yiSikari, eduze lesiqinti uJakobe asinika indodana yakhe uJosefa;
He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 lomthombo kaJakobe wawulapho. Ngakho uJesu ekhathele ngohambo wahlala ngokunjalo emthonjeni. Kwakungaba lihola lesithupha.
Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
7 Kwafika owesifazana evela eSamariya ukuzakukha amanzi; uJesu wathi kuye: Nginathisa.
A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink
8 (Ngoba abafundi bakhe babehambile baya emzini, ukuze bathenge ukudla.)
(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).
9 Ngakho owesifazana umSamariya wathi kuye: Kungani wena ungumJuda ucela ukunatha kimi, owesifazana ongumSamariya? Ngoba amaJuda awalabudlelwano lamaSamariya.
The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.
10 UJesu waphendula wathi kuye: Aluba ubusazi isipho sikaNkulunkulu, lokuthi ungubani othi kuwe: Nginathisa; ubuzacela kuye, njalo ubezakunika amanzi aphilayo.
Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 Owesifazana wathi kuye: Nkosi, kawulalutho lokukha, lomgodi uyatshona; uwathethe ngaphi pho amanzi aphilayo?
The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?
12 Wena umkhulu yini kulobaba wethu uJakobe, owasinika umgodi, wanatha kuwo yena, labantwana bakhe, lemihlambi yakhe?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
13 UJesu waphendula wathi kuye: Wonke onatha lamanzi, uzakoma futhi;
Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again;
15 Owesifazana wathi kuye: Nkosi, ngipha lawomanzi, ukuze ngingomi, ngingabe ngiseza lapha ukukha.
The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.
16 UJesu wathi kuye: Hamba, ubize umkakho, uze lapha.
Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.
17 Owesifazana waphendula wathi: Kangilandoda. UJesu wathi kuye: Utsho kuhle ukuthi: Kangilandoda;
The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;
18 ngoba usuke waba lamadoda amahlanu, le olayo khathesi kayisiyo indoda yakho; lokhu ukutsho uqinisile.
for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.
19 Owesifazana wathi kuye: Nkosi, ngiyabona ukuthi wena ungumprofethi.
The woman says to him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.
20 Obaba bethu babekhonza kulintaba; kodwa lina lithi iseJerusalema indawo lapho okufanele umuntu akhonze khona.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.
21 UJesu wathi kuye: Mama, kholwa kimi, ukuthi ihola liyeza, lapho elizakhonza uBaba kungeyisikho kulintaba, kumbe eJerusalema.
Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, [the] hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.
22 Lina likhonza elingakwaziyo; thina sikhonza esikwaziyo; ngoba usindiso luvela kumaJuda.
Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.
23 Kodwa ihola liyeza njalo seliyilo, lapho abakhonzi abaqotho bazakhonza uBaba ngomoya langeqiniso; ngoba-ke uBaba udinga abanjalo abamkhonzayo.
But [the] hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.
24 UNkulunkulu unguMoya; lalabo abamkhonzayo, bafanele ukukhonza ngomoya langeqiniso.
God [is] a spirit; and they who worship him must worship [him] in spirit and truth.
25 Owesifazana wathi kuye: Ngiyazi ukuthi uMesiya uyeza okuthiwa nguKristu; nxa lo esefikile, uzasitshela konke.
The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.
26 UJesu wathi kuye: Mina nginguye, okhuluma lawe.
Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am [he].
27 Kwathi ngalesosikhathi bafika abafundi bakhe, bamangala ukuthi wayekhuluma lowesifazana; kodwa kakho owathi: Udingani? Kumbe: Ukhulumelani laye?
And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?
28 Ngakho owesifazana wasetshiya inkonxa yakhe, wasesuka waya emzini, wathi ebantwini:
The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,
29 Wozani, libone umuntu, ongitshele konke engakwenzayo; kambe kayisuye yini uKristu lo?
Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?
30 Ngakho baphuma emzini, beza kuye.
They went out of the city and came to him.
31 Kusenjalo abafundi bamncenga besithi: Rabi, dlana.
But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.
32 Kodwa wathi kubo: Mina ngilokudla engikudlayo lina elingakwaziyo.
But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.
33 Basebekhulumisana abafundi besithi: Kambe ukhona omlethele ukudla?
The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him [anything] to eat?
34 UJesu wathi kubo: Ukudla kwami kuyikuthi ngenze intando yongithumileyo, lokuthi ngiqede umsebenzi wakhe.
Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.
35 Kalitsho yini ukuthi: Kuseselenyanga ezine ukuthi kufike ukuvuna? Khangelani, ngithi kini: Phakamisani amehlo enu, libone amasimu, ngoba asehle emhlophe elungele isivuno.
Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
36 Njalo ovunayo wemukela umvuzo, njalo abuthe isithelo empilweni elaphakade; ukuze bobabili ohlanyelayo lovunayo bathokoze bendawonye. (aiōnios g166)
He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 Ngoba kulokhu ilizwi liqinisile elokuthi: Omunye ngohlanyelayo, lomunye ngovunayo.
For in this is [verified] the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.
38 Mina ngalithuma ukuvuna lokho elingakusebenzelanga; abanye basebenzile, lina-ke selingenile emsebenzini wabo.
I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.
39 Njalo amaSamariya amanengi akulowomuzi akholwa kuye ngenxa yelizwi lowesifazana, owafakaza esithi: Ungitshele konke engikwenzileyo.
But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.
40 Kwathi esefikile kuye amaSamariya, amncenga ukuthi ahlale lawo; wasehlala khona insuku ezimbili.
When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.
41 Abanengi bengezelelwa bakholwa ngenxa yelizwi lakhe.
And more a great deal believed on account of his word;
42 Basebesithi kowesifazana: Kasisakholwa ngenxa yokutsho kwakho; ngoba sesizizwele thina, siyazi ukuthi oqotho lo unguMsindisi womhlaba, uKristu.
and they said to the woman, [It is] no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
43 Kwathi emva kwensuku ezimbili wasuka lapho, waya eGalili;
But after the two days he went forth thence and went away into Galilee,
44 ngoba uJesu ngokwakhe wafakaza ukuthi umprofethi kaladumo elizweni lakibo.
for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.
45 Wathi esefikile eGalili, amaGalili amemukela, ebonile konke akwenzayo eJerusalema emkhosini; ngoba lawo ayeyile emkhosini.
When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.
46 UJesu wafika-ke futhi eKana yeGalili, lapho enza khona amanzi aba liwayini. Kwakukhona othile owesikhosini, ondodana yakhe yayigula eKapenawume.
He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.
47 Esezwile ukuthi uJesu usefikile eGalili evela eJudiya, waya kuye, wamncenga ukuthi ehle, asilise indodana yakhe, ngoba yayisizaphela.
He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked [him] that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.
48 Ngakho uJesu wathi kuye: Ngaphandle kokuthi libone izibonakaliso lezimangaliso, kalisoze likholwe.
Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.
49 Owesikhosini wathi kuye: Nkosi, yehla engakafi umntanami.
The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 UJesu wathi kuye: Hamba; indodana yakho iyaphila. Umuntu wasekholwa ilizwi uJesu alikhuluma laye, wasuka wahamba.
Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.
51 Kwathi esesehla, inceku zakhe zamhlangabeza, zabika zathi: Umntanakho uyaphila.
But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought [him] word saying, Thy child lives.
52 Wasezibuza ihola aqale ngalo ukuba ngcono. Zasezisithi kuye: Izolo ngehola lesikhombisa uqhuqho lumyekele.
He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 Ngakho uyise wazi ukuthi kwakungalelohola uJesu athi ngalo kuye: Indodana yakho iyaphila; wasekholwa yena lendlu yakhe yonke.
The father therefore knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed, himself and his whole house.
54 UJesu waphinda wakwenza lokhu kwaba yisibonakaliso sesibili, efikile eGalili evela eJudiya.
This second sign again did Jesus, being come out of Judaea into Galilee.
