Chichewa Contemporary BibleBerean Standard Bible

1. 1CCLYesu atazindikira kuti Afarisi amva zoti Iye ankapeza ndi kubatiza ophunzira ambiri kupambana Yohane,BSBBSB: When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John
2. 2CCL(ngakhale kuti Yesuyo sankabatiza, koma ophunzira ake).BSBBSB: (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples),
3. 3CCLIye anachoka ku Yudeya ndi kubwereranso ku Galileya.BSBBSB: He left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4. 4CCLNdipo Iye anayenera kudutsa mu Samariya.BSBBSB: Now He had to pass through Samaria.
5. 5CCLIye anafika mʼmudzi wa Asamariya wotchedwa Sukari, pafupi ndi malo amene Yakobo anapatsa mwana wake Yosefe.BSBBSB: So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6. 6CCLChitsime cha Yakobo chinali pamenepo ndipo Yesu atatopa ndi ulendo anakhala pansi pambali pa chitsimecho. Nthawi inali pafupifupi ora lachisanu ndi chimodzi masana.BSBBSB: Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7. 7CCLMayi wa Chisamariya atabwera kudzatunga madzi, Yesu anati kwa iye, “Kodi ungandipatse madzi akumwa.”BSBBSB: When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8. 8CCL(Ophunzira ake nʼkuti atapita mʼmudzi kukagula chakudya).BSBBSB: (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9. 9CCLMayiyo anati kwa Iye, “Inu ndinu Myuda ndipo ine ndine Msamariya. Bwanji mukundipempha madzi akumwa?” (Popeza Ayuda ndi Asamariya sankayanjana).BSBBSB: “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.)
10. 10CCLYesu anamuyankha kuti, “Koma iwe ukanadziwa mphatso ya Mulungu ndi Iye amene akukupempha madzi akumwa, ukanamupempha ndipo akanakupatsa madzi amoyo.”BSBBSB: 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.”
11. 11CCLMayiyo anati, “Ambuye, Inu mulibe kanthu kotungira madzi ndipo chitsime ndi chakuya. Kodi madzi amoyowo mungawatenge kuti?BSBBSB: “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
12. 12CCLKodi Inu ndinu wamkulu kuposa kholo lathu Yakobo, amene anatipatsa chitsimechi ndipo iye ankamwanso monga anachita ana ake ndi ziweto zake?”BSBBSB: Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
13. 13CCLYesu anayankha kuti, “Aliyense amene amamwa madzi awa amamvanso ludzu,BSBBSB: Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
14. 14CCLkoma aliyense amene adzamwa madzi amene Ine ndidzamupatsa sadzamvanso ludzu. Ndithudi, madzi amene ndidzamupatsa adzakhala kasupe wamadzi wotumphukira ku moyo wosatha.”BSBBSB: 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.”
15. 15CCLMayiyo anati kwa Iye, “Ambuye, patseni madzi amenewo kuti ndisadzamvenso ludzu ndi kumabwerabe kuno kudzatunga madzi.”BSBBSB: 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.”
16. 16CCLIye anamuwuza kuti, “Pita kayitane mwamuna wako ndipo ubwere naye.”BSBBSB: Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17. 17CCLIye anayankha kuti, “Ine ndilibe mwamuna.” Yesu anati kwa iye, “Wakhoza ponena kuti ulibe mwamuna.BSBBSB: “I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.
18. 18CCLZoona nʼzakuti iwe wakhala pa banja ndi amuna asanu, ndipo mwamuna amene uli naye tsopano si wako. Zimene wanenazi ndi zoona.”BSBBSB: In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”
19. 19CCLMayiyo anati, “Ambuye, ine ndazindikira kuti Inu ndinu mneneri.BSBBSB: “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.
20. 20CCLMakolo athu ankapembedza mʼphiri ili koma inu Ayuda mumati malo amene tiyenera kupembedzera ali ku Yerusalemu.”BSBBSB: Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21. 21CCLYesu anati, “Mayi inu khulupirira Ine. Nthawi ikubwera pamene inu simudzapembedza Atate mʼphiri ili kapena mu Yerusalemu.BSBBSB: “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22. 22CCLInu Asamariya mumapembedza chimene simukuchidziwa. Ife timapembedza chimene tikuchidziwa, pakuti chipulumutso nʼchochokera kwa Ayuda.BSBBSB: You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23. 23CCLKoma nthawi ikubwera ndipo yafika kale tsopano pamene opembedza woona adzapembedza Atate mu mzimu ndi mʼchoonadi, pakuti opembedza otere ndiwo amene Atate akuwafuna.BSBBSB: 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.
24. 24CCLMulungu ndi Mzimu, ndipo omupembedza Iye ayenera kumupembedza mu mzimu ndi mʼchoonadi.”BSBBSB: God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
25. 25CCLMayiyo anati, “Ine ndikudziwa kuti Mesiya (wotchedwa Khristu) akubwera. Akabwera, Iye adzafotokoza zonse kwa ife.”BSBBSB: The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26. 26CCLNdipo Yesu anamuwuza kuti, “Amene ndikukuyankhulane, ndine amene.”BSBBSB: Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”
27. 27CCLPa nthawi yomweyo ophunzira ake anabwerera ndipo anadabwa kupeza Iye akuyankhula ndi mayi. Koma palibe amene anamufunsa kuti, “Kodi mukufuna chiyani?” kapena, “Nʼchifukwa chiyani mukuyankhula naye?”BSBBSB: 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?”
28. 28CCLKenaka mayiyo anasiya mtsuko wamadzi, nabwerera ku mzinda ndipo anati kwa anthu,BSBBSB: Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people,
29. 29CCL“Tiyeni mukaone munthu amene wandiwuza ine zilizonse zimene ndinazichita. Kodi ameneyu sangakhale Khristu?”BSBBSB: “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
30. 30CCLIwo anatuluka mʼmudziwo ndi kupita kumene kunali Iye.BSBBSB: So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.
31. 31CCLPa nthawi imeneyi ndi kuti ophunzira ake akumukakamiza kuti, “Rabi idyani.”BSBBSB: Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32. 32CCLKoma Iye anawawuza kuti, “Ine ndili ndi chakudya choti ndidye chimene inu simukuchidziwa.”BSBBSB: But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33. 33CCLNdipo ophunzira ake anafunsana wina ndi mnzake kuti, “Kodi alipo wina amene anamubweretsera Iye chakudya?”BSBBSB: So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”
34. 34CCLYesu anati, “Chakudya changa ndikuchita chifuniro cha Iye amene anandituma Ine ndi kumaliza ntchito yake.BSBBSB: Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
35. 35CCLKodi inu simunena kuti, ‘Kwatsala miyezi inayi ndipo kenaka kukolola?’ Ine ndikukuwuzani kuti, tsekulani maso anu ndipo muyangʼane mʼminda! Mbewu zacha kale kuti zikololedwe.BSBBSB: 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.
36. 36CCLNgakhale tsopano amene akukolola akulandira malipiro ake, ndipo akututa mbewu ku moyo wosatha kuti wofesa ndi wokolola asangalale pamodzi.BSBBSB: Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
37. 37CCLNʼchifukwa chake mawu akuti, ‘Wina amafesa ndipo wina amakolola’ ndi woona.BSBBSB: For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
38. 38CCLIne ndinakutumani kukakolola zimene simunagwirire ntchito. Ena anagwira ntchito yolemetsa ndipo inu mwatuta phindu la ntchito yawo.”BSBBSB: 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.”
39. 39CCLAsamariya ambiri ochokera mʼmudziwo anakhulupirira Iye chifukwa cha umboni wa mayiyo wakuti, “Iye anandiwuza ine zonse ndinazichita.”BSBBSB: Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
40. 40CCLChoncho Asamariya atabwera kwa Iye, anamuwumiriza Iye kuti akhale nawo, ndipo Iye anakhala nawo masiku awiri.BSBBSB: So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
41. 41CCLNdipo chifukwa cha mawu ake, ena ambiri anakhulupirira.BSBBSB: And many more believed because of His message.
42. 42CCLIwo anati kwa mayiyo, “Ife sitikukhulupirira chifukwa cha mawu ako okha, koma tsopano ife tadzimvera tokha, ndipo tikudziwa kuti munthu uyu ndithu ndi Mpulumutsi wa dziko lapansi.”BSBBSB: 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.”
43. 43CCLPatatha masiku awiri Iye anachoka napita ku Galileya.BSBBSB: After two days, Jesus left for Galilee.
44. 44CCL(Tsopano Yesu mwini ananena kale kuti mneneri salandira ulemu mʼdziko lake).BSBBSB: Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.
45. 45CCLIye atafika ku Galileya, Agalileya anamulandira. Iwo anali ataona zonse zimene anazichita mu Yerusalemu pa phwando la Paska, pakuti iwonso anali komweko.BSBBSB: 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.
46. 46CCLIye anakafikanso ku Kana wa ku Galileya, kumene anasanduliza madzi kukhala vinyo. Ndipo kumeneko kunali nduna ina ya mfumu imene mwana wake wamwamuna anali chigonere akudwala ku Kaperenawo.BSBBSB: 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.
47. 47CCLMunthu uyu atamva kuti Yesu wafika ku Galileya kuchokera ku Yudeya, anapita kwa Iye, namupempha kuti apite akachiritse mwana wakeyo, amene anali pafupi kufa.BSBBSB: 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.
48. 48CCLYesu anawawuza iwo kuti, “Anthu inu pokhapokha mutaona zizindikiro zodabwitsa, simudzakhulupirira.”BSBBSB: Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”
49. 49CCLNduna ya mfumuyo inati, “Ambuye tiyeni mwana wanga asanafe.”BSBBSB: “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”
50. 50CCLYesu anayankha kuti, “Pita. Mwana wako adzakhala ndi moyo.” Munthuyo anakhulupirira mawu a Yesu ndipo ananyamuka.BSBBSB: “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.
51. 51CCLIye ali pa njira, antchito ake anakumana naye, namuwuza kuti mwana wanu uja wachira.BSBBSB: And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.
52. 52CCLIye atafunsa kuti ndi nthawi yanji imene mwana wake anapeza bwino, iwo anati kwa iye, “Malungo anamusiya iye dzulo pa ora lachisanu ndi chiwiri.”BSBBSB: 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.”
53. 53CCLNdipo bamboyo anazindikira kuti iyi inali nthawi yomweyo imene Yesu anati kwa iye, “Mwana wako adzakhala ndi moyo.” Choncho iye ndi onse a pa banja lake anakhulupirira.BSBBSB: 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.
54. 54CCLIchi ndiye chinali chizindikiro chodabwitsa chachiwiri chimene Yesu anachita atafika ku Galileya kuchokera ku Yudeya.BSBBSB: This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.