Yohana 4
1 Yesu atangite kuwa Mafarisayo bayowine kuwa Yesu abile abafundisha ni kuabatiza zaidi ya Yohana.
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 (Ila Yesu mwene abatiza kwaa ila banapunzi bake),
though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--
3 Aboi Yudea no yenda Galilaya.
He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.
4 Ibile muhimu peta Samalia.
His road lay through Samaria,
5 Paikite mu. nnema wa Samaria, wakemelwa Sikari, papipi ni lieneo lya Yakobo atikumpea mwana wake Yusufu.
and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Ni kiembwa cha Yakobo chabile palyo. Yesu achokite kwaajili ya safari ni kutama papipi ni kiembwa. Ubile muda wa mutwekati.
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 Nwawa Msamalia aisile kutola mase, ni Yesu kammakiya, “Unipei mase niywee.”
Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;
8 Kwa kuwa anapunzi bake babile batiyenda mjini kupemea chakulya.
for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.
9 Yolo nnwawa atikummakiya, “Ipalika namani wenga wa Myahudi, kunloba nenga Msamaria, kilebe cha nywaa?” Kwa mana Ayahudi kabachangamana kwaa ni Asamalia.
"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 Yesu kannyangwa, “mana utangite karama ya Nnongo, ni yolo ywakumakiye “Mbei mase,' ywalowa kunnoba, ni kukupeya mase ga ukoti.”
"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 Nwawa kayangwa, “Ngwana ubile kwaa ni ndoo yochotya, ni kilose sabile kirefu. Walowa kugapata wapi mase ga ukoti?
"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?
12 Je wenga nga nkolo, kuliko tate bitu Yakobo, ywatupeile kiembwa, ni ywembe mwene ni bana bake pamope ni mifugo yake banywea mase ga kisima chino?”
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 Yesu kanyangwa, “Yeyoti ywanyaa mase aga alowa pata kiu kae?
"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;
15 Yolo nnwawa kammakiya, “Ngwana, naloba ago mase ili kana niipate kiu, ili kana niangaike kuisa pano kutola mase.”
"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 Yesu kammakiya, “Uyende ukankeme nchengo wako.”
"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."
17 Nwawa kammakiya, “Nibile kwaa ni nchengo.” Yesu kanyangwa, “Ubayite sapi,'Nibile kwaa ni nchengo,'
"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;
18 Mana ubile ni analome atano, ni yumo ywabile naye nambeambe ni nchengo wako kwaa. Katika lelo ubayite ukweli!”
"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 Nwawa kammakiya, “Ngwana nabweni kuwa wenga wa nabii.
"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.
20 Tate bitu babile bakiabudu mu'kitombe chelo. Lakini mwenga mwabaya ya kuwa Yerusalemu nga pandu ambapo bandu bapaswa kuabudu.”
Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
21 Yesu kanyangwa, “Nwawa, niamini, muda uisile mwalowa abudu kwaa Tate mu'kitombe chelo au Yerusalemu.
"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 Mwenga bandu mwakiabudu kilebe chamukitangite kwaa, lakini twenga twaabudu chelo twakitangite, kwa mana wokovu uboka kwa Ayahudi.”
You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 Hata nyoo, muda waisa, ni mbeambe ubile pano, muda balo baabudu kweli balowa kumwabudu Tate atikuwapala bandu wa aina yee kupangika bandu babile bamwabudu.
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 Nnongo ni Roho, ni balo bamwabudu bapalikwa kumwabudu kwa roho ni kweli.”
God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."
25 Nnwawa kammakiya, “Nitangite kuwa Masihi anaisa, (Ywakemelwa Kristo). Aywo mana aisile alowa kutubakiya yoti.”
"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 Yesu kammakiya, “Nenga ubayite ninenga nga ywembe.”
"I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."
27 Muda woo anapunzi bake babuyangine. Nabo batishangala kwa namani abile kaalongela ni nwawa, lakini ntopo ywathubutu kunnobia, “Upala namani?” au “Kwa mwanja namani ulongela ni ywembe?”
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 Yolo nnwawa aulekite mtungi wake ni kuyenda mjini kuamakiya bandu,
The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.
29 “Muise kunlola mundu ywanibakiye makowe gangu yoti ganipangite, je yawezekana kuwa nga Kristo?”
"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 Baboi mjini ni kuisa kwake.
They left the town and set out to go to Him.
31 Muda wa mutwe kati anapunzi bake batikunnoba kababaya, “Rabi ulye chakulya.”
Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."
32 Lakini ywembe kaabakiya, “Nenga nibile ni chakulya mukitangite kwaa mwenga,”
"I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."
33 Anapunzi bake kabakokeyana, ntopo ywaletike kilebe chochote kulya,” je baletike?
So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"
34 Yesu kaamakiya, “Chakulya chango ni kugapanga mapenzi gake ywembe ywanitumile ni kwitimiza kazi yake.
"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
35 Je mulongela kwaa,'Bado miezi itano ni mauno gapangika tayari?' Naabakiya mulinge migunda yabile tayari kwa mauno.
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 Ywembe ywauna upokya mishahara ni kukusanya matunda kwaajili ya ukoto angeyomoka, ili ywembe apandae ni ywembe ywauna bapuraike mpamo. (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 Kwa mana lilongelo lee ni lya kweli,'Yumo ywapanda ni ywenge auna.'
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 Natikwatuma una chabile mwakihangaikia kwaa. Benge bapangite kasi ni mwenga mujingya mu'puraha ya kasi yabe.”
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 Asamaria baingi mu'mji wolo batimwamini kwa taarifa ya yolo nnwawa ywabile atishuhudia.”Ywanibakiye makowe goti yanigapangite.”
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 Nyoo Asamaria baisile kunnoba atame pamope nabo ni katama kwao kwa masoba abele.
When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41 Ni baingi muno batikumwanini pitya neno lyake.
Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,
42 Bammakiye yolo nnwawa, “Tutiamini kwa maneno gako kwaa kae, kwa mana twenga twabene tuyowine, nambeambe tuyowine kuwa hakika ywembe nga mwokozi wa ulimwengu.”
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 Baada ya masoba ago abele, atiboka ni kuyenda Galilaya.
After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee;
44 Kwa mama ywembe mwene abile atitangaza kuwa nabii abile kwaa ni heshima mu'nnema wake mwene.
though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.
45 Paaisile kuoma Galilaya, Agalilaya batikumpokya. Babile babweni makowe goti agapangite Yerusalemu mu'sikukuu, kwa mana na bembe babile mu'sikukuu.
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 Aisile kae Kana ya Galilaya kolo atigabadilisha mase kuwa divai. Pabile ni ofisa mwana wake abile mtamwe kolyo Kapernaumu.
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 Payowine kuwa Yesu aboi Yudea ni yenda Galilaya, kayenda kwa Yesu ni kumsihi auluke kumlopwa mwana wake, ywabile karibu ya kiwo.
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 Nga Yesu kammakiya, “Mwenga pamwaibweni kwaa ishara ni maajabu muweza kwaa aminiya.
"Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."
49 Kiongozi kabaya, “Ngwana uluka pae kabla mwana wangu kuwaa.”
"Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."
50 Yesu kammakiya, “Uyende mwana wako ni nkoto.” Yolo mundu aaminiya neno lyalibayite Yesu ni yenda zake.
"You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;
51 Paabile auluka, amanda bake kabampokya ni kummakiya mwana wake abile nkoto.
and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.
52 Kaalaluya ni muda gani aupatike ukoto. Kabannyangwa, “Jana muda wa saa saba homa yanlekite.”
So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him."
53 Nga tate bake atangite kuwa ni muda wowolo Yesu abayite, “Mwana wako nga nkoto.” Nyoo ywembe ni familiya yake baaminiye.
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 Ayee yabile nga ishara yana ibele yapangite Yesu palo aboite Yudea yendya Galilaya.
This is the second miracle that Jesus performed, after coming from Judaea into Galilee.
