UJohane 4
1 Kwathi-ke iNkosi isisazi ukuthi abaFarisi sebezwile ukuthi uJesu wenza wabhabhathiza abafundi abanengi kuloJohane,
Jesus, knowing that the Pharisees were informed that he made and immersed more disciples than John,
2 lanxa uJesu ngokwakhe wayengabhabhathizi, kodwa abafundi bakhe,
(though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who immersed, )
3 wasuka eJudiya, wasuka waya futhi eGalili.
left Judea, and returned to Galilee.
4 Kodwa kwakumele ukuthi adabule eSamariya.
Being obliged to pass through Samaria,
5 Wafika-ke emzini weSamariya okuthiwa yiSikari, eduze lesiqinti uJakobe asinika indodana yakhe uJosefa;
he came to a Samaritan city, called Sychar, near the heritage which Jacob gave his son Joseph.
6 lomthombo kaJakobe wawulapho. Ngakho uJesu ekhathele ngohambo wahlala ngokunjalo emthonjeni. Kwakungaba lihola lesithupha.
Now Jacob's well was there. And Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat down by the well, it being about the sixth hour.
7 Kwafika owesifazana evela eSamariya ukuzakukha amanzi; uJesu wathi kuye: Nginathisa.
A woman of Samaria, having come to draw water, Jesus said to her, Give me some drink,
8 (Ngoba abafundi bakhe babehambile baya emzini, ukuze bathenge ukudla.)
(for his disciples were gone into the city to buy food; )
9 Ngakho owesifazana umSamariya wathi kuye: Kungani wena ungumJuda ucela ukunatha kimi, owesifazana ongumSamariya? Ngoba amaJuda awalabudlelwano lamaSamariya.
the Samaritan woman answered, How is it, that you, who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan? (For the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.)
10 UJesu waphendula wathi kuye: Aluba ubusazi isipho sikaNkulunkulu, lokuthi ungubani othi kuwe: Nginathisa; ubuzacela kuye, njalo ubezakunika amanzi aphilayo.
Jesus replied, If you knew the bounty of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me some drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
11 Owesifazana wathi kuye: Nkosi, kawulalutho lokukha, lomgodi uyatshona; uwathethe ngaphi pho amanzi aphilayo?
She answered, Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep: whence, then, have you the living water?
12 Wena umkhulu yini kulobaba wethu uJakobe, owasinika umgodi, wanatha kuwo yena, labantwana bakhe, lemihlambi yakhe?
Are you 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 replied, Whosoever drinks of this water, will thirst again;
15 Owesifazana wathi kuye: Nkosi, ngipha lawomanzi, ukuze ngingomi, ngingabe ngiseza lapha ukukha.
The woman answered, Sir, give me this water, that I may never be thirsty, nor come hither to draw.
16 UJesu wathi kuye: Hamba, ubize umkakho, uze lapha.
Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come back.
17 Owesifazana waphendula wathi: Kangilandoda. UJesu wathi kuye: Utsho kuhle ukuthi: Kangilandoda;
She answered, I have no husband. Jesus replied, You say well, I have no husband;
18 ngoba usuke waba lamadoda amahlanu, le olayo khathesi kayisiyo indoda yakho; lokhu ukutsho uqinisile.
for you have have had five husbands; and he whom you now have, is not your husband. In this, you have spoken truth.
19 Owesifazana wathi kuye: Nkosi, ngiyabona ukuthi wena ungumprofethi.
The woman said, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Obaba bethu babekhonza kulintaba; kodwa lina lithi iseJerusalema indawo lapho okufanele umuntu akhonze khona.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place, where me ought to worship.
21 UJesu wathi kuye: Mama, kholwa kimi, ukuthi ihola liyeza, lapho elizakhonza uBaba kungeyisikho kulintaba, kumbe eJerusalema.
Jesus answered, Woman, believe me, the time approaches when you shall neither come to this mountain, nor go to Jerusalem, to worship the Father.
22 Lina likhonza elingakwaziyo; thina sikhonza esikwaziyo; ngoba usindiso luvela kumaJuda.
You worship what you know not, we worship what we know: for salvation is from the Jews.
23 Kodwa ihola liyeza njalo seliyilo, lapho abakhonzi abaqotho bazakhonza uBaba ngomoya langeqiniso; ngoba-ke uBaba udinga abanjalo abamkhonzayo.
But the time comes, or, rather, is come, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such are the worshipers whom the Father requires.
24 UNkulunkulu unguMoya; lalabo abamkhonzayo, bafanele ukukhonza ngomoya langeqiniso.
God is Spirit, and they that 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 replied, I know that the Messiah comes, (that is, Christ; ) when he is come, he will teach us all things.
26 UJesu wathi kuye: Mina nginguye, okhuluma lawe.
Jesus said to her, I who speak to you, am he.
27 Kwathi ngalesosikhathi bafika abafundi bakhe, bamangala ukuthi wayekhuluma lowesifazana; kodwa kakho owathi: Udingani? Kumbe: Ukhulumelani laye?
Upon this, his disciples came, and wondered that he talked with a woman; yet none of them said, What do you seek? or, Why do you talk with her?
28 Ngakho owesifazana wasetshiya inkonxa yakhe, wasesuka waya emzini, wathi ebantwini:
Then the woman left her pitcher, and having gone into the city, said to the people,
29 Wozani, libone umuntu, ongitshele konke engakwenzayo; kambe kayisuye yini uKristu lo?
Come, see a man who has told me all that I ever did. Is this not the Messiah?
30 Ngakho baphuma emzini, beza kuye.
They, accordingly, went out of the city, and came to him.
31 Kusenjalo abafundi bamncenga besithi: Rabi, dlana.
Meanwhile, the disciples entreating him, said, Rabbi, eat.
32 Kodwa wathi kubo: Mina ngilokudla engikudlayo lina elingakwaziyo.
He answered, I have food to eat which you know not.
33 Basebekhulumisana abafundi besithi: Kambe ukhona omlethele ukudla?
Then said his disciples, one to another, Has any man brought him food?
34 UJesu wathi kubo: Ukudla kwami kuyikuthi ngenze intando yongithumileyo, lokuthi ngiqede umsebenzi wakhe.
Jesus answered, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to 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 you not say, After four months comes harvest? But I say, Lift up your eyes, and survey the fields; for they are already white enough for harvest.
36 Njalo ovunayo wemukela umvuzo, njalo abuthe isithelo empilweni elaphakade; ukuze bobabili ohlanyelayo lovunayo bathokoze bendawonye. (aiōnios g166)
The reaper receives wages, and gathers the fruits of eternal life, that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 Ngoba kulokhu ilizwi liqinisile elokuthi: Omunye ngohlanyelayo, lomunye ngovunayo.
For in this, the proverb is verified, One sows, and another reaps.
38 Mina ngalithuma ukuvuna lokho elingakusebenzelanga; abanye basebenzile, lina-ke selingenile emsebenzini wabo.
I sent you to reap that on which you have bestowed no labor: others labored, and you get possession of their labors.
39 Njalo amaSamariya amanengi akulowomuzi akholwa kuye ngenxa yelizwi lowesifazana, owafakaza esithi: Ungitshele konke engikwenzileyo.
Now, many Samaritans of that city believed him, on the testimony of the woman, who said, He told me all that ever I did.
40 Kwathi esefikile kuye amaSamariya, amncenga ukuthi ahlale lawo; wasehlala khona insuku ezimbili.
When, therefore, they came to him, they besought him to stay with them; and he staid there two days.
41 Abanengi bengezelelwa bakholwa ngenxa yelizwi lakhe.
And many more believed, because of what they heard from himself;
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 not, now, on account of what you have reported, that we believe; for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is truly the Saviour of the world, the Messiah.
43 Kwathi emva kwensuku ezimbili wasuka lapho, waya eGalili;
After the two days, Jesus departed, and went to Galilee,
44 ngoba uJesu ngokwakhe wafakaza ukuthi umprofethi kaladumo elizweni lakibo.
for he had himself declared that a prophet is not regarded in his own country.
45 Wathi esefikile eGalili, amaGalili amemukela, ebonile konke akwenzayo eJerusalema emkhosini; ngoba lawo ayeyile emkhosini.
Being come into Galilee, he was well received by the Galileans, who had seen all that he did at Jerusalem, during the festival; for they likewise attended the festival.
46 UJesu wafika-ke futhi eKana yeGalili, lapho enza khona amanzi aba liwayini. Kwakukhona othile owesikhosini, ondodana yakhe yayigula eKapenawume.
Then Jesus returned to Cana, of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain officer of the court, whose son lay sick at Capernaum,
47 Esezwile ukuthi uJesu usefikile eGalili evela eJudiya, waya kuye, wamncenga ukuthi ehle, asilise indodana yakhe, ngoba yayisizaphela.
who having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, went to him, and entreated him to come and cure his son, who was dying.
48 Ngakho uJesu wathi kuye: Ngaphandle kokuthi libone izibonakaliso lezimangaliso, kalisoze likholwe.
Jesus said to him, Unless you see signs and prodigies, you will not believe.
49 Owesikhosini wathi kuye: Nkosi, yehla engakafi umntanami.
The officer answered, Come, Sir, before my child die.
50 UJesu wathi kuye: Hamba; indodana yakho iyaphila. Umuntu wasekholwa ilizwi uJesu alikhuluma laye, wasuka wahamba.
Jesus replied, Go your way. Your son is well. And the man believed the word which Jesus had spoken, and went his way.
51 Kwathi esesehla, inceku zakhe zamhlangabeza, zabika zathi: Umntanakho uyaphila.
As he was returning, his servants met him, and informed him that his son was well.
52 Wasezibuza ihola aqale ngalo ukuba ngcono. Zasezisithi kuye: Izolo ngehola lesikhombisa uqhuqho lumyekele.
He then inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They answered, 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.
Then the father knew, that it was the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son is well; and he, and all his family, believed.
54 UJesu waphinda wakwenza lokhu kwaba yisibonakaliso sesibili, efikile eGalili evela eJudiya.
This second miracle Jesus performed, after returning from Judea to Galilee.
