John 4 (LYN) · Opened

1Cwale Jesu aba ana kulimuka nji Afalisi kame ana kuyupa nji na kuwana ni ku kolobeza aiyetwa no kupula okubita Jowani,When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

2simba nji kasa Jesu ona ku kolobeza, kono neli aiyetwa aye,(although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples),

3cwale sebeli otunda mu Judeya ni ku ukela kame ku Galileya.He left Judea and returned to Galilee.

4Cwale kame ana kubita endila eyi no Samaliya.Now He had to pass through Samaria.

5Cwale sebeli okeela mu mulenen̄i no Samaliya wisaniwa nji Sikale, ou uli abeebi ni litema lya Jakobo, elyo ana kuba Josefa mwanaye.So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6Ba kwikalile elisima lya Jakobo, mi cwale Jesu ona ku katala mu mweendo waye, sebeli oikala banji ku nyonga no lisima. Kame ina ku singa okukwana enako no hola no utanu ni kamweya (6) akamwii luli.Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7Cwale sebeli kwiiya omukati no Musamaliya mu kutekula ameyi, mi Jesu sebeli wamba kwa yonyene nji, “Onibe ku meyi ni nwee.”When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

8Kakuli aiyetwa aye kame ana kuta mu mulenen̄i mu kuula eilya.(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9Omukati no Musamaliya sebeli wamba kwa Jesu nji, “Wene Omujuda, kame oni kumbela ameyi mene me nili omukati no Musamaliya?” (Kakuli Amajuda kasamo mu ukuwana ni Masamaliya.)“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10Jesu sebeli otambula omukati nji, “Kambe kame ona limuka empo ya Nyambe ni woyo wamba kwa wene nji, ‘Onibe ku meyi ni nwee,’ kambe kame ona mukumbele, mi kame sa kube ameyi no mooyo.”Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

11Omukati sebeli wamba kwa Jesu nji, “Mbumu, ku kwite esitekuliso, mi elisima kame litungile. Kubine ona kuwana ameyi no mooyo?“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

12Ninji kame oli no kuneneba okubita sitetu Jakobo woyo ona kutuba elisima eli, mane kame anwa mo, yonyene na naaye ni tingombe taye?”Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

13Jesu sebeli otambula omukati nji, “Woyo onwamo yonje mu meyi aa, kame safe elilyotwa kame,Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

14kono woyo onwa ku meyi awo sani mube, katamba okufa elilyotwa, mi ameyi sani mube kame sa futuke mwa yonyene eliweluwelu no meyi no kububa okutwala ku mooyo no kwaabwa.”But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

15Omukati sebeli wamba kwa Jesu nji, “Mbumu, onibe ku meyi awo, nji nilese okufa elilyotwa simba okwiiya kuno muku tekula ameyi.”The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16Jesu sebeli wambela omukati nji, “Ote, okaisane mbumowe, mi uuke kuno.”Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17Omukati sebeli otambula nji, “Mene sikwite mbumwange.” Jesu sebeli wamba kwa yonyene nji, “Esi wamba sokame aba wamba nji, ‘Sikwite mbumwange’“I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.

18kakuli kame ona kwikala na mbumowe atanu, mi woyo oikalile naye bano kasa mbumowe kame ona amba eniti.”In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”

19Omukati sebeli wamba kwa yonyene nji, “Molyange, kame nina mono nji tiwe omunuhi wa Nyambe.”“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

20“Asitetu kame ana ku lapelelanga ba lilundu aba, kono anyi kame mwamba nji mu Jelusalema esibaka omo afanena aanu okulapelela.”Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21Jesu sebeli wamba kwa yonyene nji, “Mukati oni pumene, enako ikeyile abo sitange katamba oku lapelelwa ba lilundu aba simba mu Jelusalema.“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

22Anyi kame mu lapela esi mwa limukile, Aci kame tu lapela esi tu limukile, kakuli oku yoyisiwa kame kutunda ku Majuda.You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

23Kono enako ikeyile, mane ya iya kale, abo awo alapeli no niti kame sa lapele sitange ni mebo ni mu niti kakuli okame awo asaelwa kwa Sitange.But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

24Nyambe nimebo, mi awo amulapela kame afanena oku mu lapela ni mebo ni mu niti.”God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

25Omukati sebeli wamba kwa Jesu nji, “Kame ni limuka nji Mesiya kame aiya woyo oisanwa nji Kilesite. Aba sa keele, mba tu monisa einu yonje.”The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

26Jesu sebeli wamba kwa yonyene nji, “Mene woyo wamba kwa wene, ya mene.”Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”

27Mu nako eyo aiyetwa aye sebeli akeela, mi sebeli akomoka oku muwana yo amba ni mukati, kono kakwisa simba mumweya ona ku mwambisa nji, “Siikene eso osaela?” Simba nji, “Iikene eyo onaamba naye?”Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

28Cwale omukati sebeli osiya esitekulo saye no meyi ni kuukela mu mulenen̄i, nuuka ambela aanu nji,Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people,

29“Mwiiye mu mone omunu woyo ona nambele eyi yonje nina tende. Mwendi yokame Kilesite?”“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

30Cwale sebeli atunda mu mulenen̄i ni kwiiya kwa Jesu.So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.

31Ababo asiiya feela, aiyetwa sebeli amu kumbela nji, “Labbi, olye esinjili!”Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32Kono Jesu sebeli wamba kwa onyene nji, “Kame nili ni silya no kulya eso mwalimukile.”But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

33Cwale aiyetwa sebeli akwambela omunjili ku munjili nji, “Kame kuli omunu ona mulitele esi no kulya?”So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”

34Jesu sebeli wamba kwa onyene nji, “Esilya sange ninji ni tende eso si singwa kwa woyo ona ni tumu, mi ni manenene omusebezi waye.Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

35Esi kame mwamba nji, ‘Ku sili ni tikweti tinee, okutwala abo sakuka yangulelwe.’ Kono kame ni myambela nji, mu none amiyo enu, mwa likete amatema, kakuli sebeli aimba ouloto nji uyanguliwe.Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

36Woyo oyangula kame awana mu musebezi waye, niku ungeka embuya no mooyo no kwaabwa, nji cwale woyo osikukuna ni woyo oyangula awabelelwe bamweya.Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

37Mo kumonahalela eniti no taba eyi yaamba nji, ‘Omunjili kame akuna, omunjili kame ayangula.’For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

38Kame nina mi tumu oka yangula eyo ka mwa si sebeza, anjili kame ana sebeze, mi na mwingene mu musebezi woo.”I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

39Amasamaliya no kupula na mu mulenen̄i owo sebeli apumena mwa Jesu mulibaka no mukati woyo ona kupaka nji, “Kame ana nambele eyi nina tende yonje.”Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”

40Cwale Amasamaliya aba ana kwiiya kwa yonyene, sebeli amu kumbela nji aikale noo, mi sebeli oikala noo amaywaa ayiili.So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.

41Mi anjili no kupula sebeli a pumena kwa yonyene, mulibaka no liywi lyaye,And many more believed because of His message.

42ni kwamba ku mukati nji, “Cwale aba tu pumena, kasa mu liywi lyowe, kakuli twenyene natu kuyupele, mi kame tu limuka nji yokame luli Omuyoyisi no litunga.”They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”

43Munyima no maywaa ayiili, Jesu sebeli oukela ku Galileya.After two days, Jesus left for Galilee.

44Kakuli Jesu yonyene sebeli wamba nji, “Omunuhi wa Nyambe kakutekiwa mu naha yaye.”Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

45Cwale Jesu aba ana kukeela mu Galileya, sebeli oka tambulwa wino ku Magalileya ana ku mona eyi ana kutenda yonje mu Jelusalema ku mukiti, kakuli nonyene kwana kuta ku mukiti.Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.

46Cwale Jesu sebeli oiya kame mu Kana no Galileya, omo ana ku futula ameyi okwatenda ewaine. Cwale mu Kapenauma kame kuna kwikala onduna omunjili no molyaye woyo mwanaye neli omweeti.So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

47Aba ana kuyupa nji Jesu neeyi mu Galileya okutunda ku Judeya, sebeli oiya kwa yonyene, ni ku mukumbela nji ashetumuke muku balisa mwanaye no mulume, kakuli kame ana kwikala abeebi ni kufa.When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

48Jesu cwale sebeli wamba kwa yonyene nji, “Konji aba sa mumone etiponiso ni timakazo okubinda samu pumene.”Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

49Onduna sebeli omu tambula nji, “Mbumu, oshetumuke mwanange yo kasifa kale.”“Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”

50Jesu sebeli wamba kwa yonyene nji, “Ote, mwanowe kame ayoya!” Omulume woyo sebeli opumena eliywi lya Jesu nuukutela.“Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.

51Yosi shetumuka ngeeso, abika aye sebeli amu waniketa ni ku mwambela nji, “Mwanowe kame ayoya!”And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

52Cwale sebeli waibanguta enako ana ku tangisa omwana okwikala wino, mi sebeli aamba kwa yonyene nji, “Bingolwa ba nako no utanu ni twiili akamwii (13 okuloko) elitomapa sebeli limu lesela.”So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”

53Cwale sitaye sebeli olimuka nji yokame enako ana kwamba Jesu nji, “Mwanowe kame ayoya.” Mi sebeli opumena yonyene na sindoo yaye onje.Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.

54Eyo neli emakazo no wiili ana kutenda Jesu aba ana kwiiya mu Galileya, okutunda ku Judeya.This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.

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