yohanaḥ 4
1 yīśuḥ svayaṁ nāmajjayat kevalaṁ tasya śiṣyā amajjayat kintu yohano'dhikaśiṣyān 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 phirūśina imāṁ vārttāmaśṛṇvan iti prabhuravagatya
though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--
3 yihūdīyadeśaṁ vihāya puna rgālīlam āgat|
He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.
4 tataḥ śomiroṇapradeśasya madyena tena gantavye sati
His road lay through Samaria,
5 yākūb nijaputrāya yūṣaphe yāṁ bhūmim adadāt tatsamīpasthāyi śomiroṇapradeśasya sukhār nāmnā vikhyātasya nagarasya sannidhāvupāsthāt|
and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 tatra yākūbaḥ prahirāsīt; tadā dvitīyayāmavelāyāṁ jātāyāṁ sa mārge śramāpannastasya praheḥ pārśve upāviśat|
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 kācit śomiroṇīyā yoṣit toyottolanārtham tatrāgamat
Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;
8 tadā śiṣyāḥ khādyadravyāṇi kretuṁ nagaram agacchan|
for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.
9 yīśuḥ śomiroṇīyāṁ tāṁ yoṣitam vyāhārṣīt mahyaṁ kiñcit pānīyaṁ pātuṁ dehi| kintu śomiroṇīyaiḥ sākaṁ yihūdīyalokā na vyavāharan tasmāddhetoḥ sākathayat śomiroṇīyā yoṣitadahaṁ tvaṁ yihūdīyosi kathaṁ mattaḥ pānīyaṁ pātum 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 yīśuravadad īśvarasya yaddānaṁ tatkīdṛk pānīyaṁ pātuṁ mahyaṁ dehi ya itthaṁ tvāṁ yācate sa vā ka iti cedajñāsyathāstarhi tamayāciṣyathāḥ sa ca tubhyamamṛtaṁ toyamadāsyat|
"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 tadā sā sīmantinī bhāṣitavati, he maheccha prahirgambhīro bhavato nīrottolanapātraṁ nāstī ca tasmāt tadamṛtaṁ kīlālaṁ kutaḥ prāpsyasi?
"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 imamandhūṁ dadau, yasya ca parijanā gomeṣādayaśca sarvve'sya praheḥ pānīyaṁ papuretādṛśo yosmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣo yākūb tasmādapi bhavān mahān kiṁ?
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 yīśurakathayad idaṁ pānīyaṁ saḥ pivati sa punastṛṣārtto bhaviṣyati,
"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;
15 tadā sā vanitākathayat he maheccha tarhi mama punaḥ pīpāsā yathā na jāyate toyottolanāya yathātrāgamanaṁ na bhavati ca tadarthaṁ mahyaṁ tattoyaṁ dehī|
"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 yīśūravadadyāhi tava patimāhūya sthāne'trāgaccha|
"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."
17 sā vāmāvadat mama patirnāsti| yīśuravadat mama patirnāstīti vākyaṁ bhadramavocaḥ|
"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;
18 yatastava pañca patayobhavan adhunā tu tvayā sārddhaṁ yastiṣṭhati sa tava bharttā na vākyamidaṁ satyamavādiḥ|
"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 tadā sā mahilā gaditavati he maheccha bhavān eko bhaviṣyadvādīti buddhaṁ mayā|
"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.
20 asmākaṁ pitṛlokā etasmin śiloccaye'bhajanta, kintu bhavadbhirucyate yirūśālam nagare bhajanayogyaṁ sthānamāste|
Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
21 yīśuravocat he yoṣit mama vākye viśvasihi yadā yūyaṁ kevalaśaile'smin vā yirūśālam nagare piturbhajanaṁ na kariṣyadhve kāla etādṛśa āyāti|
"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 yūyaṁ yaṁ bhajadhve taṁ na jānītha, kintu vayaṁ yaṁ bhajāmahe taṁ jānīmahe, yato yihūdīyalokānāṁ madhyāt paritrāṇaṁ jāyate|
You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 kintu yadā satyabhaktā ātmanā satyarūpeṇa ca piturbhajanaṁ kariṣyante samaya etādṛśa āyāti, varam idānīmapi vidyate; yata etādṛśo bhatkān pitā ceṣṭate|
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 īśvara ātmā; tatastasya ye bhaktāstaiḥ sa ātmanā satyarūpeṇa ca bhajanīyaḥ|
God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."
25 tadā sā mahilāvādīt khrīṣṭanāmnā vikhyāto'bhiṣiktaḥ puruṣa āgamiṣyatīti jānāmi sa ca sarvvāḥ kathā asmān jñāpayiṣyati|
"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 yīśuravadat tvayā sārddhaṁ kathanaṁ karomi yo'ham ahameva sa puruṣaḥ|
"I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."
27 etasmin samaye śiṣyā āgatya tathā striyā sārddhaṁ tasya kathopakathane mahāścaryyam amanyanta tathāpi bhavān kimicchati? yadvā kimartham etayā sārddhaṁ kathāṁ kathayati? iti kopi nāpṛcchat|
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 tataḥ paraṁ sā nārī kalaśaṁ sthāpayitvā nagaramadhyaṁ gatvā lokebhyokathāyad
The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.
29 ahaṁ yadyat karmmākaravaṁ tatsarvvaṁ mahyamakathayad etādṛśaṁ mānavamekam āgatya paśyata ru kim abhiṣikto 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 nagarād bahirāgatya tātasya samīpam āyan|
They left the town and set out to go to Him.
31 etarhi śiṣyāḥ sādhayitvā taṁ vyāhārṣuḥ he guro bhavān kiñcid bhūktāṁ|
Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."
32 tataḥ sovadad yuṣmābhiryanna jñāyate tādṛśaṁ bhakṣyaṁ mamāste|
"I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."
33 tadā śiṣyāḥ parasparaṁ praṣṭum ārambhanta, kimasmai kopi kimapi bhakṣyamānīya dattavān?
So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"
34 yīśuravocat matprerakasyābhimatānurūpakaraṇaṁ tasyaiva karmmasiddhikāraṇañca mama bhakṣyaṁ|
"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
35 māsacatuṣṭaye jāte śasyakarttanasamayo bhaviṣyatīti vākyaṁ yuṣmābhiḥ kiṁ nodyate? kintvahaṁ vadāmi, śira uttolya kṣetrāṇi prati nirīkṣya paśyata, idānīṁ karttanayogyāni śuklavarṇānyabhavan|
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 yaśchinatti sa vetanaṁ labhate anantāyuḥsvarūpaṁ śasyaṁ sa gṛhlāti ca, tenaiva vaptā chettā ca yugapad ānandataḥ| (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 itthaṁ sati vapatyekaśchinatyanya iti vacanaṁ 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 yūyaṁ na paryyaśrāmyata tādṛśaṁ śasyaṁ chettuṁ yuṣmān prairayam anye janāḥparyyaśrāmyan yūyaṁ teṣāṁ śragasya 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 kāle yadyat karmmākārṣaṁ tatsarvvaṁ sa mahyam akathayat tasyā vanitāyā idaṁ sākṣyavākyaṁ śrutvā tannagaranivāsino bahavaḥ śomiroṇīyalokā vyaśvasan|
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 tathā ca tasyāntike samupasthāya sveṣāṁ sannidhau katicid dināni sthātuṁ tasmin vinayam akurvvāna tasmāt sa dinadvayaṁ tatsthāne nyavaṣṭat
When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41 tatastasyopadeśena bahavo'pare viśvasya
Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,
42 tāṁ yoṣāmavadan kevalaṁ tava vākyena pratīma iti na, kintu sa jagato'bhiṣiktastrāteti tasya kathāṁ śrutvā vayaṁ svayamevājñāsamahi|
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 svadeśe bhaviṣyadvaktuḥ satkāro nāstīti yadyapi yīśuḥ pramāṇaṁ datvākathayat
After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee;
44 tathāpi divasadvayāt paraṁ sa tasmāt sthānād gālīlaṁ gatavān|
though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.
45 anantaraṁ ye gālīlī liyalokā utsave gatā utsavasamaye yirūśalam nagare tasya sarvvāḥ kriyā apaśyan te gālīlam āgataṁ tam āgṛhlan|
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 tataḥ param yīśu ryasmin kānnānagare jalaṁ drākṣārasam ākarot tat sthānaṁ punaragāt| tasminneva samaye kasyacid rājasabhāstārasya putraḥ kapharnāhūmapurī rogagrasta āsīt|
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 yehūdīyadeśād yīśo rgālīlāgamanavārttāṁ niśamya tasya samīpaṁ gatvā prārthya vyāhṛtavān mama putrasya prāyeṇa kāla āsannaḥ bhavān āgatya taṁ svasthaṁ 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 tadā yīśurakathayad āścaryyaṁ karmma citraṁ cihnaṁ ca na dṛṣṭā yūyaṁ na pratyeṣyatha|
"Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."
49 tataḥ sa sabhāsadavadat he maheccha mama putre na mṛte bhavānāgacchatu|
"Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."
50 yīśustamavadad gaccha tava putro'jīvīt tadā yīśunoktavākye sa viśvasya gatavān|
"You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;
51 gamanakāle mārgamadhye dāsāstaṁ sākṣātprāpyāvadan bhavataḥ putro'jīvīt|
and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.
52 tataḥ kaṁ kālamārabhya rogapratīkārārambho jātā iti pṛṣṭe tairuktaṁ hyaḥ sārddhadaṇḍadvayādhikadvitīyayāme tasya jvaratyāgo'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 tadā yīśustasmin kṣaṇe proktavān tava putro'jīvīt pitā tadbuddhvā saparivāro vyaśvasīt|
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 yihūdīyadeśād āgatya gālīli yīśuretad dvitīyam āścaryyakarmmākarot|
This is the second miracle that Jesus performed, after coming from Judaea into Galilee.
