Tlhakubele 12, 2023

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'Malo oa Pele

Exoda 17:3-7

17:3	'Me kahoo batho ba ne ba le lenyora sebakeng seo, ka baka la kgaello ya metsi, mme ba korotlela Moshe, ho bua: “Ke hobane’ng ha u ile ua re ntša Egepeta?, e le hore a re bolaee le bana ba rōna, hammoho le likhomo tsa rona, ka lenyora?”
17:4	Yaba Moshe o howeletsa ho Jehova, ho bua: “Ke tla etsa joang ka sechaba see? Ho se ho se hokae, mme ba tla njwetsa ka majwe.
17:5	Yaba Jehova o re ho Moshe: “E-ea ka pel’a batho, o nke le ba bang ba baholo ba Iseraele. 'Me u nke lere letsohong la hao, eo o otlileng noka ka yona, le ho tsoela pele.
17:6	Lo, Ke tla ema sebakeng seo ka pel’a hao, lefikeng la Horebe. 'Me u tla otla lefika, mme metsi a tla tswa ho yona, e le hore batho ba ka noa. Moshe a etsa jwalo pontsheng ya baholo ba Iseraele.
17:7	Mme a bitsa sebaka seo lebitso la ‘Moleko,’ ka lebaka la likhang tsa bara ba Iseraele, le hobane ba ile ba leka Jehova, ho bua: “Morena o na le rona, kapa eseng joalo?”

'Malo oa Bobeli

The Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans 5:1-2, 5-8

5:1	Ka hona, ka ho lokafatswa ka tumelo, a re be kgotsong le Modimo, ka Morena wa rona Jesu Kreste.
5:2	Gobane ka yena le rena re ka kgona go tsena bothong bjo bogolo bja Modimo ka tumelo, eo re emang ka yona re tiile, le kganyeng, ka tšepo ea khanya ea bara ba Molimo.
5:3	Mme eseng hoo feela, empa hape re fumana kganya matshwenyehong, ka ho tseba hore matšoenyeho a bontša mamello,
5:4	mme mamello e isa bopaking, empa ho paka e le kannete ho lebisa tšepong,
5:5	empa tšepo ha e na motheo, hobane lerato la Modimo le tshetswe ka dipelong tsa rona ka Moya o Halalelang, eo re mo filoeng.
5:6	Leha ho le joalo ke hobane'ng ha Kreste, ha re ntse re fokola, ka nako e nepahetseng, ba shwele ba sa lokang?
5:7	Joale motho a ka ’na a se ke a ikemisetsa ho shoa molemong oa toka, ka mohlala, mohlomong motho a ka iteta sefuba ho shoela monna ea molemo.
5:8	Empa Molimo o bontša lerato la hae ho rōna ka sena, ha re sa ntse re le baetsadibe, ka nako e nepahetseng,

Evangeli

Johanne 4:5-42

4:1	Me, ea ba, when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made more disciples and baptized more than John,
4:2	(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but only his disciples)
4:3	he left behind Judea, and he traveled again to Galilee.
4:4	Now he needed to cross through Samaria.
4:5	Ka hona, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
4:6	And Jacob’s well was there. And so Jesus, being tired from the journey, was sitting in a certain way on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
4:7	A woman of Samaria arrived to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me to drink.”
4:8	For his disciples had gone into the city in order to buy food.
4:9	Me, ea ba, that Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, are requesting a drink from me, though I am a Samaritan woman?” For the Jews do not associate with the Samaritans.
4:10	Jesus responded and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me to drink,’ perhaps you would have made a request of him, and he would have given you living water.”
4:11	The woman said to him: “Morena, you do not have anything with which to draw water, and the well is deep. From where, ebe, do you have living water?
4:12	Ka sebele, you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and who drank from it, with his sons and his cattle?”
4:13	Jesus responded and said to her: “All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity.
4:14	Ho e-na le hoo, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.”
4:15	The woman said to him, “Morena, give me this water, so that I may not thirst and may not come here to draw water.”
4:16	Jesus said to her, “Tsamaya, call your husband, and return here.”
4:17	The woman responded and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her: “You have spoken well, in saying, ‘I have no husband.’
4:18	For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.”
4:19	The woman said to him: “Morena, I see that you are a Prophet.
4:20	Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
4:21	Jesus said to her: “Mosali, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.
4:22	You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know. For salvation is from the Jews.
4:23	But the hour is coming, and it is now, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such persons who may worship him.
4:24	God is Spirit. Me, ea ba, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
4:25	The woman said to him: “I know that the Messiah is coming (who is called the Christ). Eaba, when he will have arrived, he will announce everything to us.”
4:26	Jesus said to her: “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.”
4:27	And then his disciples arrived. And they wondered that he was speaking with the woman. Yet no one said: “What are you seeking?” kapa, “Why are you talking with her?”
4:28	And so the woman left behind her water jar and went into the city. And she said to the men there:
4:29	“Come and see a man who has told me all the things that I have done. Is he not the Christ?”
4:30	Ka hona, they went out of the city and came to him.
4:31	Khabareng, the disciples petitioned him, ho bua, “Rabi, eat.”
4:32	Empa a re ho bona, “I have food to eat which you do not know.”
4:33	Ka hona, the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
4:34	Jesu a re ho bona: “My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.
4:35	Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest arrives?’ Behold, Ke re ho lona: Lift up your eyes and look at the countryside; for it is already ripe for the harvest.
4:36	For he who reaps, receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
4:37	For in this the word is true: that it is one who sows, and it is another who reaps.
4:38	I have sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
4:39	Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him, because of the word of the woman who was offering testimony: “For he told me all the things that I have done.”
4:40	Ka hona, when the Samaritans had come to him, they petitioned him to lodge there. And he lodged there for two days.
4:41	And many more believed in him, because of his own word.
4:42	And they said to the woman: “Now we believe, not because of your speech, but because we ourselves have heard him, and so we know that he is truly the Savior of the world.”