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1 yIzuH svayaM nAmajjayat kEvalaM tasya ziSyA amajjayat kintu yOhanO'dhikaziSyAn sa karOti majjayati ca,
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 phirUzina imAM vArttAmazRNvan iti prabhuravagatya
though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--
3 yihUdIyadEzaM vihAya puna rgAlIlam Agat|
He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.
4 tataH zOmirONapradEzasya madyEna tEna gantavyE sati
His road lay through Samaria,
5 yAkUb nijaputrAya yUSaphE yAM bhUmim adadAt tatsamIpasthAyi zOmirONapradEzasya sukhAr nAmnA vikhyAtasya nagarasya sannidhAvupAsthAt|
and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 tatra yAkUbaH prahirAsIt; tadA dvitIyayAmavElAyAM jAtAyAM sa mArgE zramApannastasya prahEH pArzvE upAvizat|
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 Etarhi kAcit zOmirONIyA yOSit tOyOttOlanArtham tatrAgamat
Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;
8 tadA ziSyAH khAdyadravyANi krEtuM nagaram agacchan|
for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.
9 yIzuH zOmirONIyAM tAM yOSitam vyAhArSIt mahyaM kinjcit pAnIyaM pAtuM dEhi| kintu zOmirONIyaiH sAkaM yihUdIyalOkA na vyavAharan tasmAddhEtOH sAkathayat zOmirONIyA yOSitadahaM tvaM yihUdIyOsi kathaM mattaH pAnIyaM pAtum icchasi?
"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 tatO yIzuravadad Izvarasya yaddAnaM tatkIdRk pAnIyaM pAtuM mahyaM dEhi ya itthaM tvAM yAcatE sa vA ka iti cEdajnjAsyathAstarhi tamayAciSyathAH sa ca tubhyamamRtaM tOyamadAsyat|
"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 tadA sA sImantinI bhASitavati, hE mahEccha prahirgambhIrO bhavatO nIrOttOlanapAtraM nAstI ca tasmAt tadamRtaM kIlAlaM kutaH prApsyasi?
"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?
12 yOsmabhyam imamandhUM dadau, yasya ca parijanA gOmESAdayazca sarvvE'sya prahEH pAnIyaM papurEtAdRzO yOsmAkaM pUrvvapuruSO yAkUb tasmAdapi bhavAn mahAn kiM?
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 tatO yIzurakathayad idaM pAnIyaM saH pivati sa punastRSArttO bhaviSyati,
"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;
15 tadA sA vanitAkathayat hE mahEccha tarhi mama punaH pIpAsA yathA na jAyatE tOyOttOlanAya yathAtrAgamanaM na bhavati ca tadarthaM mahyaM tattOyaM dEhI|
"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 tatO yIzUravadadyAhi tava patimAhUya sthAnE'trAgaccha|
"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."
17 sA vAmAvadat mama patirnAsti| yIzuravadat mama patirnAstIti vAkyaM bhadramavOcaH|
"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;
18 yatastava panjca patayObhavan adhunA tu tvayA sArddhaM yastiSThati sa tava bharttA na vAkyamidaM satyamavAdiH|
"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 tadA sA mahilA gaditavati hE mahEccha bhavAn EkO bhaviSyadvAdIti buddhaM mayA|
"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.
20 asmAkaM pitRlOkA Etasmin zilOccayE'bhajanta, kintu bhavadbhirucyatE yirUzAlam nagarE bhajanayOgyaM sthAnamAstE|
Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
21 yIzuravOcat hE yOSit mama vAkyE vizvasihi yadA yUyaM kEvalazailE'smin vA yirUzAlam nagarE piturbhajanaM na kariSyadhvE kAla EtAdRza AyAti|
"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 yUyaM yaM bhajadhvE taM na jAnItha, kintu vayaM yaM bhajAmahE taM jAnImahE, yatO yihUdIyalOkAnAM madhyAt paritrANaM jAyatE|
You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 kintu yadA satyabhaktA AtmanA satyarUpENa ca piturbhajanaM kariSyantE samaya EtAdRza AyAti, varam idAnImapi vidyatE; yata EtAdRzO bhatkAn pitA cESTatE|
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 Izvara AtmA; tatastasya yE bhaktAstaiH sa AtmanA satyarUpENa ca bhajanIyaH|
God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."
25 tadA sA mahilAvAdIt khrISTanAmnA vikhyAtO'bhiSiktaH puruSa AgamiSyatIti jAnAmi sa ca sarvvAH kathA asmAn jnjApayiSyati|
"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 tatO yIzuravadat tvayA sArddhaM kathanaM karOmi yO'ham ahamEva sa puruSaH|
"I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."
27 Etasmin samayE ziSyA Agatya tathA striyA sArddhaM tasya kathOpakathanE mahAzcaryyam amanyanta tathApi bhavAn kimicchati? yadvA kimartham EtayA sArddhaM kathAM kathayati? iti kOpi nApRcchat|
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 tataH paraM sA nArI kalazaM sthApayitvA nagaramadhyaM gatvA lOkEbhyOkathAyad
The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.
29 ahaM yadyat karmmAkaravaM tatsarvvaM mahyamakathayad EtAdRzaM mAnavamEkam Agatya pazyata ru kim abhiSiktO na bhavati?
"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 tatastE nagarAd bahirAgatya tAtasya samIpam Ayan|
They left the town and set out to go to Him.
31 Etarhi ziSyAH sAdhayitvA taM vyAhArSuH hE gurO bhavAn kinjcid bhUktAM|
Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."
32 tataH sOvadad yuSmAbhiryanna jnjAyatE tAdRzaM bhakSyaM mamAstE|
"I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."
33 tadA ziSyAH parasparaM praSTum Arambhanta, kimasmai kOpi kimapi bhakSyamAnIya dattavAn?
So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"
34 yIzuravOcat matprErakasyAbhimatAnurUpakaraNaM tasyaiva karmmasiddhikAraNanjca mama bhakSyaM|
"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
35 mAsacatuSTayE jAtE zasyakarttanasamayO bhaviSyatIti vAkyaM yuSmAbhiH kiM nOdyatE? kintvahaM vadAmi, zira uttOlya kSEtrANi prati nirIkSya pazyata, idAnIM karttanayOgyAni zuklavarNAnyabhavan|
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 yazchinatti sa vEtanaM labhatE anantAyuHsvarUpaM zasyaM sa gRhlAti ca, tEnaiva vaptA chEttA ca yugapad AnandataH| (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 itthaM sati vapatyEkazchinatyanya iti vacanaM siddhyati|
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 yatra yUyaM na paryyazrAmyata tAdRzaM zasyaM chEttuM yuSmAn prairayam anyE janAHparyyazrAmyan yUyaM tESAM zragasya phalam alabhadhvam|
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 yasmin kAlE yadyat karmmAkArSaM tatsarvvaM sa mahyam akathayat tasyA vanitAyA idaM sAkSyavAkyaM zrutvA tannagaranivAsinO bahavaH zOmirONIyalOkA vyazvasan|
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 tathA ca tasyAntikE samupasthAya svESAM sannidhau katicid dinAni sthAtuM tasmin vinayam akurvvAna tasmAt sa dinadvayaM tatsthAnE nyavaSTat
When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41 tatastasyOpadEzEna bahavO'parE vizvasya
Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,
42 tAM yOSAmavadan kEvalaM tava vAkyEna pratIma iti na, kintu sa jagatO'bhiSiktastrAtEti tasya kathAM zrutvA vayaM svayamEvAjnjAsamahi|
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 svadEzE bhaviSyadvaktuH satkArO nAstIti yadyapi yIzuH pramANaM datvAkathayat
After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee;
44 tathApi divasadvayAt paraM sa tasmAt sthAnAd gAlIlaM gatavAn|
though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.
45 anantaraM yE gAlIlI liyalOkA utsavE gatA utsavasamayE yirUzalam nagarE tasya sarvvAH kriyA apazyan tE gAlIlam AgataM tam AgRhlan|
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 tataH param yIzu ryasmin kAnnAnagarE jalaM drAkSArasam AkarOt tat sthAnaM punaragAt| tasminnEva samayE kasyacid rAjasabhAstArasya putraH kapharnAhUmapurI rOgagrasta AsIt|
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 sa yEhUdIyadEzAd yIzO rgAlIlAgamanavArttAM nizamya tasya samIpaM gatvA prArthya vyAhRtavAn mama putrasya prAyENa kAla AsannaH bhavAn Agatya taM svasthaM karOtu|
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 tadA yIzurakathayad AzcaryyaM karmma citraM cihnaM ca na dRSTA yUyaM na pratyESyatha|
"Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."
49 tataH sa sabhAsadavadat hE mahEccha mama putrE na mRtE bhavAnAgacchatu|
"Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."
50 yIzustamavadad gaccha tava putrO'jIvIt tadA yIzunOktavAkyE sa vizvasya gatavAn|
"You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;
51 gamanakAlE mArgamadhyE dAsAstaM sAkSAtprApyAvadan bhavataH putrO'jIvIt|
and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.
52 tataH kaM kAlamArabhya rOgapratIkArArambhO jAtA iti pRSTE tairuktaM hyaH sArddhadaNPadvayAdhikadvitIyayAmE tasya jvaratyAgO'bhavat|
So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him."
53 tadA yIzustasmin kSaNE prOktavAn tava putrO'jIvIt pitA tadbuddhvA saparivArO vyazvasIt|
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 yihUdIyadEzAd Agatya gAlIli yIzurEtad dvitIyam AzcaryyakarmmAkarOt|
This is the second miracle that Jesus performed, after coming from Judaea into Galilee.
