Jan 4
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Jezi ak fanm samaritèn nan
4 Jezi te aprann Farizyen yo tande l ap fè plis disip epi l ap batize plis moun pase Janbatis. 2 Men, alaverite, se pa t Jezi ki t ap batize moun yo, se te disip li yo. 3 Li kite teritwa Jide, li tounen Galile. 4 Pou rive Galile, li te dwe travèse teritwa Samari.
5 Li rive nan yon vil nan teritwa Samari yo rele Sika ki te toupre pòsyon tè Jakòb te bay Jozèf, pitit gason l lan. 6 Se la pi Jakòb te fè fouye a te ye. Jezi te fatige poutèt wout long sa a li sot fè a, li fè yon ti chita bò kote pi a. Li te bò midi konsa. 7 Yon fanm samaritèn te vin chache dlo nan pi a, epi Jezi di l konsa: “Ban m ti gout dlo.” 8 Sa te pase pandan disip Jezi yo te antre nan vil la pou achte kèk bagay pou yo manje.
9 Fanm nan reponn: “Ou konnen ou fè m sezi lè ou mande m dlo pou w bwè! Ou se yon Jwif epi mwen se yon fanm samaritèn! Jwif pa gen okenn relasyon ak Samariten.”
10 Jezi reponn li: “Se konnen ou pa konnen sa Bondye kapab ba ou. Epi ou pa konnen ki moun mwen ye, mwen menm k ap mande w dlo a. Si ou te konnen, se ou ki t ap mande m, epi mwen ta ba ou dlo ki bay lavi a.”[a]
11 Fanm nan di li: “Mesye, pi a fon anpil epi ou pa gen veso pou tire dlo a. Kote ou ap jwenn kalite dlo sa a? 12 Èske ou pi gran pase Jakòb, gran paran nou? Se li ki te fouye pi sa a pou nou. Li te bwè ladan l, pitit li yo ansanm ak bèt li yo te bwè ladan l.”
13 Jezi reponn li: “Nenpòt moun ki bwè nan dlo sa a ap swaf ankò. 14 Men nenpòt moun ki bwè dlo mwen bay la p ap janm swaf ankò. Dlo m ap bay la va tounen yon sous dlo anndan yo. Li va ba yo lavi etènèl.”
15 Fanm nan di Jezi: “Mesye, ban m dlo sa a non. Mwen pa ta swaf ankò epi mwen pa t ap oblije retounen isit la pou chache dlo.”
16 Jezi di li: “Ale chache mari w mennen vini.”
17 Fanm nan reponn: “Men, mwen pa gen mari.”
Jezi di: “Ou gen rezon di ou pa gen mari. 18 Ou pase senk mari deja, epi mesye ou avè l kounye a pa mari w. Lè w di ou pa gen mari a, se verite a.”
19 Fanm nan di: “Mesye, mwen wè ou se yon pwofèt. 20 Gran paran nou yo te konn adore Bondye sou mòn sa a, men nou menm Jwif, nou di fòk se Jerizalèm pou moun adore Bondye.”
21 Jezi reponn li: “kwè m si ou vle, madanm! Lè a rive, kote se pa ni anwo mòn sa a ni Jerizalèm moun pral adore Bondye Papa a. 22 Nou menm Samariten yo, nou adore sa nou pa konnen. Nou menm Jwif, nou adore sa nou konnen, paske delivrans la soti pami Jwif yo. 23 Men, gen yon jou k ap vini, epi jou a rive deja, vrè adoratè Bondye yo pral adore Bondye Papa a anba kontwòl Sentespri a epi selon verite a. Se kalite adoratè sa yo menm Bondye Papa a ap chache pou adore l. 24 Bondye se Lespri. Konsa, moun k ap adore Li dwe adore li anba kontwòl Sentespri epi selon verite a.”
25 Fanm samaritèn nan di li: “Mwen konnen Mesi a, moun yo rele Kris la, li gen pou vini. Lè l vini, li va fè n konnen tout bagay.”
26 Alò, Jezi di l: “Mwen menm menm k ap pale avè w la, se mwen menm ki Mesi a.”
27 Menm lè a, disip yo vin rive. Yo te sezi wè Jezi t ap pale ak yon fanm. Men, pèsonn pa t oze mande li: “Ki sa ou ap chache?” ni “Pou kisa ou ap pale avè l?”
28 Alò, fanm nan kite veso li te pote pou pran dlo a, li retounen nan vil la. Li t ap mache di moun yo: 29 “Men yon nonm ki di mwen tout bagay mwen fè. Vin wè, èske se pa ta li menm ki Mesi a?” 30 Se konsa, pèp la soti lavil la epi y al wè Jezi.
31 Pandan fanm nan te nan vil la, disip Jezi yo t ap ankouraje Jezi konsa: “Mèt, manje yon bagay non!”
32 Men Jezi reponn: “Mwen gen yon manje pou m manje nou pa konnen.”
33 Disip yo t ap mande antre yo: “Èske gen yon moun ki ta gentan pote manje ba li?”
34 Jezi di: “Manje m se fè volonte moun ki voye m nan, manje m se fini travay li te ban m fè a. 35 Lè nou fè jaden, nou toujou di nan kat mwa ankò n ap gen rekòt. Men m ap di nou, leve je nou gade jaden yo. Yo gentan bon pou rekòt la. 36 Moun k ap ranmase rekòt la ap touche salè yo. Y ap rasanble fwi pou lavi etènèl. Konsa moun k ap plante a ak moun k ap ranmase rekòt la kapab rejwi ansanm. 37 Nan ka sa a, sa yo di a se vre: Youn plante, yon lòt rekòl te. 38 Mwen voye n al ranmase rekòt kote nou pa t plante. Gen lòt moun ki te plante, epi se nou menm k ap pwofite travay yo.”
39 Anpil Samariten nan vil la te kwè nan Jezi. Yo te kwè poutèt sa fanm nan te di yo sou Jezi a. Li te di yo: “Li di mwen tout sa m fè.” 40 Samariten yo ale kote Jezi. Yo mande Li rete ak yo. Konsa, Jezi te pase de jou ak yo. 41 Anpil lòt moun te kwè nan Li poutèt sa Li t ap di.
42 Moun yo di fanm nan: “Anvan, nou te kwè poutèt sa ou te di nou. Men kounye a, nou kwè paske nou tande Li ak pwòp zòrèy nou. Kounye a, nou konnen se li menm ki gen pou sove lemonn.”
Jezi geri pitit gason yon Ofisye
(Mat 8:5-13; Lik 7:1-10)
43 Apre de jou, Jezi kite zòn nan, l al nan teritwa Galile. 44 Jezi te di yon pwofèt pa gen okenn respè nan peyi li. 45 Lè l rive Galile, moun yo te byen resevwa li, paske yo te ale nan fèt Pak la, Jerizalèm, epi yo te wè tout sa Li t ap fè nan fèt la.
46 Jezi te ale Kana nan Galile ankò. Kana se kote li te fè dlo tounen diven an. Youn nan gwo ofisye gouvènman wa Ewòd yo te rete lavil Kapènawòm. Pitit gason nonm sa a te malad. 47 Nonm nan te tande Jezi soti nan teritwa Jide pou vin Galile. Konsa, li ale kote Jezi epi li mande l si l ka vini Kapènawòm pou geri pitit li a ki te prèske mouri. 48 Alò, Jezi di li: “Nou menm, tout tan nou pa wè gwo mirak ak mèvèy nou p ap janm kwè.”
49 Ofisye wa a di: “Mèt, vini vit non, anvan pitit gason m nan mouri.”
50 Jezi reponn li: “Ou mèt ale, pitit ou a geri.”
Nonm nan te kwè sa Jezi te di l la, li retounen lakay li. 51 Etan l te sou wout ap retounen lakay li, sèvitè l yo vin rankontre l. Yo di li: “Pitit ou a geri.”
52 Ofisye a mande: “Bò ki lè kon sa li te kòmanse fè mye?”
Yo reponn li: “Ayè, a inè apremidi, lafyèv la te tonbe.”
53 Papa pitit la te konnen se te nan menm lè sa a Jezi te di l: “Pitit ou a geri.” Se kon sa li menm ak tout moun lakay li te kwè nan Jezi.
54 Se te dezyèm mirak Jezi te fè apre li te fin soti Jide rive Galile.
Footnotes
- 4:10 dlo ki bay lavi a Pawòl Jezi te di fanm nan kapab vle di de bagay: 1) dlo fre osinon 2) dlo ki bay lavi. Jezi te vle di “dlo ki bay lavi”. Men dam nan te konprann “dlo fre”.
John 4
New King James Version
A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah
4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and (A)baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that (B)Jacob (C)gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For (D)Jews have no dealings with (E)Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the (F)gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you (G)living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but (H)whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him (I)will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 (J)The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, (K)I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on (L)this mountain, and you Jews say that in (M)Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming (N)when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship (O)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for (P)salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will (Q)worship the Father in (R)spirit (S)and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 (T)God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah (U)is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, (V)He will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, (W)“I who speak to you am He.”
The Whitened Harvest
27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man (X)who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them, (Y)“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to (Z)finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes (AA)the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, (AB)for they are already white for harvest! 36 (AC)And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that (AD)both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: (AE)‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; (AF)others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
The Savior of the World
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him (AG)because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own (AH)word.
42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for (AI)we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed [a]the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Welcome at Galilee
43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. 44 For (AJ)Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, (AK)having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; (AL)for they also had gone to the feast.
A Nobleman’s Son Healed
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee (AM)where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain [b]nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, (AN)“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.
John 4
The Message
The Woman at the Well
4 1-3 Jesus realized that the Pharisees were keeping count of the baptisms that he and John performed (although his disciples, not Jesus, did the actual baptizing). They had posted the score that Jesus was ahead, turning him and John into rivals in the eyes of the people. So Jesus left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee.
4-6 To get there, he had to pass through Samaria. He came into Sychar, a Samaritan village that bordered the field Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was still there. Jesus, worn out by the trip, sat down at the well. It was noon.
7-8 A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, “Would you give me a drink of water?” (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.)
9 The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, “How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (Jews in those days wouldn’t be caught dead talking to Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water.”
11-12 The woman said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water’? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?”
13-14 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.”
15 The woman said, “Sir, give me this water so I won’t ever get thirsty, won’t ever have to come back to this well again!”
16 He said, “Go call your husband and then come back.”
17-18 “I have no husband,” she said.
“That’s nicely put: ‘I have no husband.’ You’ve had five husbands, and the man you’re living with now isn’t even your husband. You spoke the truth there, sure enough.”
19-20 “Oh, so you’re a prophet! Well, tell me this: Our ancestors worshiped God at this mountain, but you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place for worship, right?”
21-23 “Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither here at this mountain nor there in Jerusalem. You worship guessing in the dark; we Jews worship in the clear light of day. God’s way of salvation is made available through the Jews. But the time is coming—it has, in fact, come—when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter.
23-24 “It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”
25 The woman said, “I don’t know about that. I do know that the Messiah is coming. When he arrives, we’ll get the whole story.”
26 “I am he,” said Jesus. “You don’t have to wait any longer or look any further.”
27 Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked. They couldn’t believe he was talking with that kind of a woman. No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it.
28-30 The woman took the hint and left. In her confusion she left her water pot. Back in the village she told the people, “Come see a man who knew all about the things I did, who knows me inside and out. Do you think this could be the Messiah?” And they went out to see for themselves.
It’s Harvest Time
31 In the meantime, the disciples pressed him, “Rabbi, eat. Aren’t you going to eat?”
32 He told them, “I have food to eat you know nothing about.”
33 The disciples were puzzled. “Who could have brought him food?”
34-35 Jesus said, “The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn’t you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I’m telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It’s harvest time!
36-38 “The Harvester isn’t waiting. He’s taking his pay, gathering in this grain that’s ripe for eternal life. Now the Sower is arm in arm with the Harvester, triumphant. That’s the truth of the saying, ‘This one sows, that one harvests.’ I sent you to harvest a field you never worked. Without lifting a finger, you have walked in on a field worked long and hard by others.”
39-42 Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman’s witness: “He knew all about the things I did. He knows me inside and out!” They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days. A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say. They said to the woman, “We’re no longer taking this on your say-so. We’ve heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. He’s the Savior of the world!”
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43-45 After the two days he left for Galilee. Now, Jesus knew well from experience that a prophet is not respected in the place where he grew up. So when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, but only because they were impressed with what he had done in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast, not that they really had a clue about who he was or what he was up to.
46-48 Now he was back in Cana of Galilee, the place where he made the water into wine. Meanwhile in Capernaum, there was a certain official from the king’s court whose son was sick. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and asked that he come down and heal his son, who was on the brink of death. Jesus put him off: “Unless you people are dazzled by a miracle, you refuse to believe.”
49 But the court official wouldn’t be put off. “Come down! It’s life or death for my son.”
50-51 Jesus simply replied, “Go home. Your son lives.”
The man believed the bare word Jesus spoke and headed home. On his way back, his servants intercepted him and announced, “Your son lives!”
52-53 He asked them what time he began to get better. They said, “The fever broke yesterday afternoon at one o’clock.” The father knew that that was the very moment Jesus had said, “Your son lives.”
53-54 That settled it. Not only he but his entire household believed. This was now the second sign Jesus gave after having come from Judea into Galilee.
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