Yohana 4
1 Mafarisayo wakasikia kwamba Yesu alikuwa anapata na kubatiza wanafunzi wengi zaidi kuliko Yohana,
Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 ingawa kwa kweli si Yesu mwenyewe aliyekuwa akibatiza, ila ni wanafunzi wake.
(Though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptized),
3 Bwana alipojua mambo haya, aliondoka Uyahudi akarudi tena Galilaya.
he left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.
4 Wakati huo ilimlazimu apitie Samaria.
He had to pass through Samaria,
5 Akafika kwenye mji mmoja wa Samaria uitwao Sikari, karibu na lile shamba ambalo Yakobo alimpa mwanawe Yosefu.
and, on his way, he came to a Samaritan town called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Huko ndiko kulikokuwa na kile kisima cha Yakobo. Naye Yesu alikuwa amechoka kwa kuwa alikuwa ametoka safarini. Akaketi karibu na hicho kisima. Ilikuwa yapata saa sita mchana.
Jacob’s Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about midday.
7 Mwanamke mmoja Msamaria akaja kuteka maji, Yesu akamwambia, “Naomba maji ninywe.”
A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her – “Give me some to drink,”
8 (Wakati huo wanafunzi wake walikuwa wamekwenda mjini kununua chakula.)
For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
9 Yule mwanamke Msamaria akamjibu, “Wewe ni Myahudi na mimi ni Msamaria. Yawezekanaje uniombe nikupe maji ya kunywa?” (Wayahudi walikuwa hawashirikiani kabisa na Wasamaria.)
“How is it,” replied the Samaritan woman, “that you who are a Jew ask for water from a Samaritan woman like me?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).
10 Yesu akajibu akamwambia, “Kama ungelijua karama ya Mungu, naye ni nani anayekuambia, Nipe maji ninywe, wewe ungelimwomba yeye, naye angelikupa maji yaliyo hai.”
“If you knew of the gift of God,” replied Jesus, “and who it is that is saying to you ‘Give me some water,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 Yule mwanamke akamjibu, “Bwana, wewe huna chombo cha kutekea maji na kisima hiki ni kirefu. Hayo maji ya uzima utayapata wapi?
“You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep,” she said. “Where did you get that ‘living water?’
12 Kwani wewe ni mkuu kuliko baba yetu Yakobo ambaye alitupatia kisima hiki, ambacho yeye pamoja na watoto wake na mifugo yake walikitumia?”
Surely you are not greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle!”
13 Yesu akamjibu, “Kila mtu anayekunywa maji ya kisima hiki ataona kiu tena.
“All who drink of this water,” replied Jesus, “will be thirsty again;
15 Yule mwanamke akamwambia, “Bwana, tafadhali nipe maji hayo ili nisipate kiu tena na wala nisije tena hapa kuteka maji!”
“Give me this water, Sir,” said the woman, “so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water.”
16 Yesu akamjibu, “Nenda ukamwite mumeo, uje naye hapa.”
“Go and call your husband,” said Jesus, “and then come back.”
17 Yule mwanamke akajibu, “Sina mume.” Yesu akamwambia, “Umesema kweli kuwa huna mume.
“I have no husband,” answered the woman. “You are right in saying ‘I have no husband,’” replied Jesus,
18 Kwa maana umeshakuwa na wanaume watano na mwanaume unayeishi naye sasa si mume wako! Umesema ukweli.”
“For you have had five husbands, and the man with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth.”
19 Yule mwanamke akasema, “Bwana, naona bila shaka wewe ni nabii.
“I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!” exclaimed the woman.
20 Baba zetu waliabudu kwenye mlima huu, lakini ninyi Wayahudi mnasema ni lazima tukaabudu huko Yerusalemu.”
“It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Yesu akamjibu, “Mwanamke, niamini, wakati unakuja ambapo hamtamwabudu Baba katika mlima huu, wala huko Yerusalemu.
“Believe me,” replied Jesus, “a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.
22 Ninyi Wasamaria mnaabudu msichokijua. Sisi Wayahudi tunamwabudu Mungu tunayemjua kwa sababu wokovu unatoka kwa Wayahudi.
You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 Lakini saa yaja, tena ipo, ambapo wale waabuduo halisi, watamwabudu Baba katika roho na kweli. Watu wanaoabudu namna hii, ndio Baba anawatafuta.
But a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father spiritually and truly; for such are the worshipers that the Father desires.
24 Mungu ni Roho na wote wanaomwabudu imewapasa kumwabudu katika roho na kweli.”
God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.”
25 Yule mwanamke akamwambia, “Ninafahamu kwamba Masiya (aitwaye Kristo) anakuja. Yeye akija, atatueleza mambo yote.”
“I know,” answered the woman, “that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything.”
26 Yesu akamwambia, “Mimi ninayezungumza nawe, ndiye.”
“I am he,” Jesus said to her, “I who am speaking to you.”
27 Wakati huo wanafunzi wake wakarudi, wakashangaa sana kumwona akizungumza na mwanamke. Lakini hakuna aliyemuuliza, “Unataka nini kwake?” Au “Kwa nini unazungumza naye?”
At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked ‘What do you want?’ or ‘Why are you talking with her?’
28 Yule mwanamke akaacha mtungi wake, akarudi mjini akawaambia watu,
So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,
29 “Njooni mkamwone mtu aliyeniambia kila kitu nilichotenda! Je, yawezekana huyu ndiye Kristo?”
“Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?”
30 Basi wakamiminika watu kutoka mjini wakamwendea Yesu.
And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
31 Wakati huo wanafunzi wake walikuwa wakimsihi, “Rabi, kula angalau chochote.”
Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, “Take something to eat, Rabbi.”
32 Lakini yeye akawajibu, “Mimi ninacho chakula ambacho ninyi hamkifahamu.”
“I have food to eat,” he answered, “of which you know nothing.”
33 Basi wanafunzi wakaanza kuulizana, “Kuna mtu ambaye amemletea chakula?”
“Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?” the disciples said to one another.
34 Lakini Yesu akawajibu, “Chakula changu ni kufanya mapenzi ya Mungu ambaye amenituma na kuikamilisha kazi yake.
“My food,” replied Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.
35 Je, ninyi hamsemi, ‘Bado miezi minne tuvune?’ Inueni macho yenu myaangalie mashamba jinsi mazao yalivyo tayari kuvunwa!
Don’t you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!
36 Mvunaji tayari anapokea mshahara wake, naye anakusanya mazao kwa ajili ya uzima wa milele. Ili yeye apandaye na yeye avunaye wafurahi pamoja. (aiōnios g166)
Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 Hivyo kule kusema, ‘Mmoja hupanda na mwingine huvuna,’ ni kweli kabisa.
For here the proverb holds good – ‘One sows, another reaps.’
38 Niliwatuma mkavune mazao ambayo hamkupanda, wengine walifanya kazi ngumu, nanyi mmevuna faida ya taabu yao.”
I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have reaped the results of their labor.”
39 Wasamaria wengi katika mji ule wakamwamini Yesu kwa sababu ya ushuhuda wa yule mwanamke alipowaambia kwamba, “Ameniambia kila kitu nilichotenda.”
Many from that town came to believe in Jesus – Samaritans though they were – because the woman had said, ‘He has told me everything that I have done.’
40 Hivyo wale Wasamaria walipomjia, wakamsihi akae kwao. Naye akakaa huko siku mbili.
And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
41 Kwa sababu ya neno lake, watu wengi wakaamini.
But far more came to believe in him because of what he said himself,
42 Wakamwambia yule mwanamke, “Sasa tunaamini, wala si kwa sababu ya maneno yako tu, bali kwa kuwa tumemsikia sisi wenyewe. Tumejua hakika kweli ya kwamba huyu ndiye Kristo, Mwokozi wa ulimwengu.”
and they said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world.”
43 Baada ya zile siku mbili, Yesu aliondoka kwenda Galilaya.
After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;
44 (Basi Yesu mwenyewe alikuwa amesema kwamba nabii hapati heshima katika nchi yake mwenyewe.)
for he himself declared that ‘a prophet is not honored in his own country.’
45 Alipofika Galilaya, Wagalilaya walimkaribisha, kwani walikuwa wameona yale aliyoyatenda huko Yerusalemu wakati wa Sikukuu ya Pasaka. Kwa maana wao pia walikuwa wamehudhuria hiyo Sikukuu.
When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.
46 Hivyo Yesu akaja tena mpaka Kana ya Galilaya, kule alikokuwa amebadili maji kuwa divai. Huko kulikuwepo na afisa mmoja wa mfalme, ambaye mwanawe alikuwa mgonjwa huko Kapernaumu.
So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the king’s officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.
47 Huyo mtu aliposikia kwamba Yesu alikuwa amewasili Galilaya kutoka Uyahudi, alimwendea na kumwomba ili aje kumponya mwanawe, aliyekuwa mgonjwa karibu ya kufa.
When this man heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.
48 Yesu akamwambia, “Ninyi watu msipoona ishara na miujiza kamwe hamtaamini.”
Jesus answered, “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
49 Yule afisa wa mfalme akamwambia, “Bwana, tafadhali shuka kabla mwanangu hajafa.”
“Sir,” said the officer, “come down before my child dies.” And Jesus answered, “Go, your son is living.”
50 Yesu akamjibu, “Enenda zako, mwanao yu hai.” Yule afisa akaamini yale maneno Yesu aliyomwambia, akaondoka akaenda zake.
The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;
51 Alipokuwa bado yuko njiani, akakutana na watumishi wake wakamwambia kwamba mwanawe yu mzima.
and, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.
52 Akawauliza saa ambayo alianza kupata nafuu. Wakamwambia, “Jana yapata saa saba, homa ilimwacha.”
So he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. “It was yesterday, about one o’clock,” they said, “that the fever left him.”
53 Ndipo baba wa huyo mtoto akakumbuka kuwa huo ndio wakati ambapo Yesu alikuwa amemwambia, “Mwanao yu hai.” Kwa hiyo yeye pamoja na wote wa nyumbani mwake wakamwamini Yesu.
By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him ‘Your son is living’; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.
54 Hii ilikuwa ishara ya pili ambayo Yesu alifanya aliporudi Galilaya kutoka Uyahudi.
This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.
