John 4
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Biblia Takatifu (Swahili): New Testament portions
1When Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples, and baptizeth more than John,
1Mafarisayo walisikia kwamba Yesu alikuwa anabatiza na kuwapata wanafunzi wengi kuliko Yohane.
2(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)
2(Lakini ukweli ni kwamba Yesu hakuwa anabatiza ila wanafunzi wake.)
3He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.
3Basi, Yesu aliposikia hayo, alitoka Yudea akarudi Galilaya;
4And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.
4na katika safari hiyo ilimbidi apitie Samaria.
5He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
5Basi, akafika Sukari, mji mmoja wa Samaria, karibu na shamba ambalo Yakobo alikuwa amempa mwanawe, Yosefu.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
6Mahali hapo palikuwa na kisima cha Yakobo, naye Yesu, kutokana na uchovu wa safari, akaketi kando ya kisima. Ilikuwa yapata saa sita mchana.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.
7Basi, mwanamke mmoja Msamaria akafika kuteka maji. Yesu akamwambia, “Nipatie maji ninywe.”
8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
8(Wakati huo wanafunzi wake walikuwa wamekwenda mjini kununua chakula.)
9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
9Lakini huyo mwanamke akamwambia, “Wewe ni Myahudi; mimi ni mwanamke Msamaria! Unawezaje kuniomba maji?” (Wayahudi hawakuwa na ushirikiano na Wasamaria katika matumizi ya vitu.)
10Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
10Yesu akamjibu, “Kama tu ungalijua zawadi ya Mungu na ni nani anayekwambia: Nipatie maji ninywe, ungalikwisha mwomba, naye angekupa maji yaliyo hai.”
11The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
11Huyo mama akasema, “Mheshimiwa, wewe huna chombo cha kutekea maji, nacho kisima ni kirefu; utapata wapi maji yaliyo hai?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
12Au, labda wewe wajifanya mkuu kuliko babu yetu Yakobo? Yeye alitupa sisi kisima hiki; na yeye mwenyewe, watoto wake na mifugo yake walikunywa maji ya kisima hiki.”
13Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever:
13Yesu akamjibu, “Kila anayekunywa maji haya ataona kiu tena.
14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
14Lakini atakayekunywa maji nitakayompa mimi, hataona kiu milele. Maji nitakayompa yatakuwa ndani yake chemchemi ya maji ya uzima na kumpatia uzima wa milele.”
15The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
15Huyo mwanamke akamwambia, “Mheshimiwa, nipe maji hayo ili nisione kiu tena; nisije tena mpaka hapa kuteka maji.”
16Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
16Yesu akamwambia, “Nenda ukamwite mumeo uje naye hapa.”
17The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
17Huyo mwanamke akamwambia, “Mimi sina mume.” Yesu akamwambia, “Umesema kweli, kwamba huna mume.
18For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
18Maana umekuwa na waume watano, na huyo unayeishi naye sasa si mume wako. Hapo umesema kweli.”
19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
19Huyo Mwanamke akamwambia, “Mheshimiwa, naona ya kuwa wewe u nabii.
20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
20Babu zetu waliabudu juu ya mlima huu, lakini ninyi mwasema kwamba mahali pa kumwabudu Mungu ni kule Yerusalemu.”
21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
21Yesu akamwambia, “Niamini; wakati unakuja ambapo hamtamwabudu Baba juu ya mlima huu, wala kule Yerusalemu.
22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
22Ninyi Wasamaria mnamwabudu yule msiyemjua, lakini sisi tunamjua huyo tunayemwabudu, kwa maana wokovu unatoka kwa Wayahudi.
23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.
23Lakini wakati unakuja, tena umekwisha fika, ambapo wanaoabudu kweli, watamwabudu Baba kwa nguvu ya Roho; watu wanaomwabudu hivyo ndio Baba anaotaka.
24God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
24Mungu ni Roho, na watu wataweza tu kumwabudu kweli kwa nguvu ya Roho wake.”
25The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
25Huyo mama akamwambia, “Najua kwamba Masiha, aitwaye Kristo, anakuja. Atakapokuja atatujulisha kila kitu.”
26Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
26Yesu akamwambia, “Mimi ninayesema nawe, ndiye.”
27And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?
27Hapo wanafunzi wake wakarudi, wakastaajabu sana kuona anaongea na mwanamke. Lakini hakuna mtu aliyesema: “Unataka nini?” au, “Kwa nini unaongea na mwanamke?”
28The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
28Huyo mama akauacha mtungi wake pale, akaenda mjini na kuwaambia watu,
29Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?
29“Njoni mkamwone mtu aliyeniambia mambo yote niliyotenda! Je, yawezekana kuwa yeye ndiye Kristo?”
30They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.
30Watu wakatoka mjini, wakamwendea Yesu.
31In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
31Wakati huohuo wanafunzi wake walikuwa wanamsihi Yesu: “Mwalimu, ule chakula.”
32But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.
32Lakini Yesu akawaambia, “Mimi ninacho chakula msichokijua ninyi.”
33The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?
33Wanafunzi wake wakaulizana, “Je, kuna mtu aliyemletea chakula?”
34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
34Yesu akawaambia, “Chakula changu ni kufanya anachotaka yule aliyenituma na kuitimiza kazi yake.
35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.
35Ninyi mwasema: Bado miezi minne tu, na wakati wa mavuno utafika! Lakini mimi nawaambieni, yatazameni mashamba; mazao yako tayari kuvunwa.
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.
36Mvunaji anapata mshahara wake, na anakusanya mavuno kwa ajili ya uzima wa milele; hivyo mpandaji na mvunaji watafurahi pamoja.
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
37Kwa sababu hiyo msemo huu ni kweli: Mmoja hupanda na mwingine huvuna.
38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
38Mimi nimewatuma mkavune mavuno ambayo hamkuyatolea jasho, wengine walifanya kazi, lakini ninyi mnafaidika kutokana na jasho lao.”
39Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.
39Wasamaria wengi wa kijiji kile waliamini kwa sababu ya maneno aliyosema huyo mama: “Ameniambia mambo yote niliyofanya.”
40So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
40Wasamaria walimwendea Yesu wakamwomba akae nao; naye akakaa hapo siku mbili.
41And many more believed in him because of his own word.
41Watu wengi zaidi walimwamini kwa sababu ya ujumbe wake.
42And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
42Wakamwambia yule mama, “Sisi hatuamini tu kwa sababu ya maneno yako; sisi wenyewe tumesikia, na tunajua kwamba huyu ndiye kweli Mwokozi wa ulimwengu.”
43Now after two days, he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
43Baada ya siku mbili Yesu aliondoka hapo, akaenda Galilaya.
44For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
44Maana Yesu mwenyewe alisema waziwazi kwamba, “Nabii hapati heshima katika nchi yake.”
45And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festival day; for they also went to the festival day.
45Basi, alipofika Galilaya, Wagalilaya wengi walimkaribisha. Maana nao pia walikuwa kwenye sikukuu ya Pasaka, wakayaona mambo yote Yesu aliyotenda huko Yerusalemu wakati wa sikukuu hiyo.
46He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capharnaum.
46Yesu alifika tena huko mjini Kana, mkoani Galilaya, mahali alipogeuza maji kuwa divai. Kulikuwa na ofisa mmoja aliyekuwa na mtoto mgonjwa huko Kafarnaumu.
47He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, went to him, and prayed him to come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.
47Basi, huyo ofisa aliposikia kuwa Yesu alikuwa ametoka Yudea na kufika Galilaya, alimwendea akamwomba aende kumponya mtoto wake aliyekuwa mgonjwa mahututi.
48Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.
48Yesu akamwambia, “Msipoona ishara na maajabu hamtaamini!”
49The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.
49Huyo ofisa akamwambia, “Mheshimiwa, tafadhali twende kabla mwanangu hajafa.”
50Jesus saith to him: Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.
50Yesu akamwambia, “Nenda tu, mwanao yu mzima.” Huyo mtu akaamini maneno ya Yesu, akaenda zake.
51And as he was going down, his servants met him; and they brought word, saying, that his son lived.
51Alipokuwa bado njiani, watumishi wake walikutana naye, wakamwambia kwamba mwanawe alikuwa mzima.
52He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
52Naye akawauliza saa mtoto alipopata nafuu; nao wakamwambia, “Jana saa saba mchana, homa ilimwacha.”
53The father therefore knew, that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth; and himself believed, and his whole house.
53Huyo baba akakumbuka kwamba ilikuwa ni saa ileile ambapo Yesu alimwambia: “Mwanao yu mzima.” Basi, yeye akaamini pamoja na jamaa yake yote.
54This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.
54Hii ilikuwa ishara ya pili aliyoifanya Yesu alipokuwa anatoka Yudea kwenda Galilaya.
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