Evangelium secundum Ioannem, 4

1. Ut ergo cognovit Iesus quia audierunt pharisaei quia Iesus plures discipulos facit et baptizat quam Ioannes

1. Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

2. — quamquam Iesus ipse non baptizaret sed discipuli eius —

2. (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

3. reliquit Iudaeam et abiit iterum in Galilaeam.

3. he left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

4. Oportebat autem eum transire per Samariam.

4. He had to pass through Samar'ia.

5. Venit ergo in civitatem Samariae, quae dicitur Sichar, iuxta praedium, quod dedit Iacob Ioseph filio suo;

5. So he came to a city of Samar'ia, called Sy'char, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6. erat autem ibi fons Iacob. Iesus ergo fatigatus ex itinere sedebat sic super fontem; hora erat quasi sexta.

6. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7. Venit mulier de Samaria haurire aquam. Dicit ei Iesus: “Da mihi bibere”;

7. There came a woman of Samar'ia to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

8. discipuli enim eius abierant in civitatem, ut cibos emerent.

8. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9. Dicit ergo ei mulier illa Samaritana: “Quomodo tu, Iudaeus cum sis, bibere a me poscis, quae sum mulier Samaritana?”. Non enim coutuntur Iudaei Samaritanis.

9. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samar'ia?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

10. Respondit Iesus et dixit ei: “Si scires donum Dei, et quis est, qui dicit tibi: “Da mihi bibere”, tu forsitan petisses ab eo, et dedisset tibi aquam vivam”.

10. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, `Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

11. Dicit ei mulier: “Domine, neque in quo haurias habes, et puteus altus est; unde ergo habes aquam vivam?

11. The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water?

12. Numquid tu maior es patre nostro Iacob, qui dedit nobis puteum, et ipse ex eo bibit et filii eius et pecora eius?”.

12. Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?"

13. Respondit Iesus et dixit ei: “Omnis, qui bibit ex aqua hac, sitiet iterum;

13. Jesus said to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again,

14. qui autem biberit ex aqua, quam ego dabo ei, non sitiet in aeternum; sed aqua, quam dabo ei, fiet in eo fons aquae salientis in vitam aeternam”.

14. but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

15. Dicit ad eum mulier: “Domine, da mihi hanc aquam, ut non sitiam neque veniam huc haurire”.

15. The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

16. Dicit ei: “Vade, voca virum tuum et veni huc”.

16. Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

17. Respondit mulier et dixit ei: “Non habeo virum”. Dicit ei Iesus: “Bene dixisti: “Non habeo virum”;

17. The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, `I have no husband';

18. quinque enim viros habuisti, et nunc, quem habes, non est tuus vir. Hoc vere dixisti”.

18. for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly."

19. Dicit ei mulier: “Domine, video quia propheta es tu.

19. The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

20. Patres nostri in monte hoc adoraverunt, et vos dicitis quia in Hierosolymis est locus, ubi adorare oportet”.

20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

21. Dicit ei Iesus: “Crede mihi, mulier, quia venit hora, quando neque in monte hoc neque in Hierosolymis adorabitis Patrem.

21. Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

22. Vos adoratis, quod nescitis; nos adoramus, quod scimus, quia salus ex Iudaeis est.

22. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

23. Sed venit hora, et nunc est, quando veri adoratores adorabunt Patrem in Spiritu et veritate; nam et Pater tales quaerit, qui adorent eum.

23. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.

24. Spiritus est Deus, et eos, qui adorant eum, in Spiritu et veritate oportet adorare”.

24. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

25. Dicit ei mulier: “Scio quia Messias venit — qui dicitur Christus C; cum venerit ille, nobis annuntiabit omnia”.

25. The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things."

26. Dicit ei Iesus: “Ego sum, qui loquor tecum”.

26. Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."

27. Et continuo venerunt discipuli eius et mirabantur quia cum muliere loquebatur; nemo tamen dixit: “Quid quaeris aut quid loqueris cum ea?”.

27. Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

28. Reliquit ergo hydriam suam mulier et abiit in civitatem et dicit illis hominibus:

28. So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

29. “Venite, videte hominem, qui dixit mihi omnia, quaecumque feci; numquid ipse est Christus?”.

29. "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?"

30. Exierunt de civitate et veniebant ad eum.

30. They went out of the city and were coming to him.

31. Interea rogabant eum discipuli dicentes: “Rabbi, manduca”.

31. Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

32. Ille autem dixit eis: “Ego cibum habeo manducare, quem vos nescitis”.

32. But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

33. Dicebant ergo discipuli ad invicem: “Numquid aliquis attulit ei manducare?”.

33. So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?"

34. Dicit eis Iesus: “Meus cibus est, ut faciam voluntatem eius, qui misit me, et ut perficiam opus eius.

34. Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

35. Nonne vos dicitis: “Adhuc quattuor menses sunt, et messis venit”? Ecce dico vobis: Levate oculos vestros et videte regiones, quia albae sunt ad messem! Iam

35. Do you not say, `There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest.

36. qui metit, mercedem accipit et congregat fructum in vitam aeternam, ut et qui seminat, simul gaudeat et qui metit.

36. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

37. In hoc enim est verbum verum: Alius est qui seminat, et alius est qui metit.

37. For here the saying holds true, `One sows and another reaps.'

38. Ego misi vos metere, quod vos non laborastis; alii laboraverunt, et vos in laborem eorum introistis”.

38. I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

39. Ex civitate autem illa multi crediderunt in eum Samaritanorum propter verbum mulieris testimonium perhibentis: “Dixit mihi omnia, quaecumque feci!”.

39. Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did."

40. Cum venissent ergo ad illum Samaritani, rogaverunt eum, ut apud ipsos maneret; et mansit ibi duos dies.

40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days.

41. Et multo plures crediderunt propter sermonem eius;

41. And many more believed because of his word.

42. et mulieri dicebant: “Iam non propter tuam loquelam credimus; ipsi enim audivimus et scimus quia hic est vere Salvator mundi!”.

42. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."

43. Post duos autem dies exiit inde in Galilaeam;

43. After the two days he departed to Galilee.

44. ipse enim Iesus testimonium perhibuit, quia propheta in sua patria honorem non habet.

44. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

45. Cum ergo venisset in Galilaeam, exceperunt eum Galilaei, cum omnia vidissent, quae fecerat Hierosolymis in die festo; et ipsi enim venerant in diem festum.

45. So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.

46. Venit ergo iterum in Cana Galilaeae, ubi fecit aquam vinum. Et erat quidam regius, cuius filius infirmabatur Capharnaum;

46. So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Caper'na-um there was an official whose son was ill.

47. hic, cum audisset quia Iesus advenerit a Iudaea in Galilaeam, abiit ad eum et rogabat, ut descenderet et sanaret filium eius; incipiebat enim mori.

47. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

48. Dixit ergo Iesus ad eum: “Nisi signa et prodigia videritis, non credetis”.

48. Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe."

49. Dicit ad eum regius: “Domine, descende priusquam moriatur puer meus”.

49. The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

50. Dicit ei Iesus: “Vade. Filius tuus vivit”. Credidit homo sermoni, quem dixit ei Iesus, et ibat.

50. Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way.

51. Iam autem eo descendente, servi eius occurrerunt ei dicentes quia puer eius vivit.

51. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living.

52. Interrogabat ergo horam ab eis, in qua melius habuerit. Dixerunt ergo ei: “Heri hora septima reliquit eum febris”.

52. So he asked them the hour when he began to mend, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

53. Cognovit ergo pater quia illa hora erat, in qua dixit ei Iesus: “Filius tuus vivit”, et credidit ipse et domus eius tota.

53. The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live"; and he himself believed, and all his household.

54. Hoc iterum secundum signum fecit Iesus, cum venisset a Iudaea in Galilaeam.

54. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.