约翰福音 13
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
耶稣为门徒洗脚
13 逾越节以前,耶稣知道自己离开这世界回到父那里去的时候到了。他既然爱世上属于自己的人,就爱他们到底。 2 吃晚饭的时候(魔鬼已经把出卖耶稣的意念放在西门的儿子加略人犹大的心里), 3 耶稣知道父已经把万有交在他手中,并且知道自己从 神而来,又要回到 神那里去, 4 就起身离席,脱去外衣,拿一条手巾束腰。 5 然后他倒了一盆水,洗门徒的脚,并且用束腰的手巾擦干。 6 轮到西门.彼得,彼得就说:“主啊,你要洗我的脚吗?” 7 耶稣回答:“我所作的,你现在不知道,以后就会明白。” 8 彼得说:“不行,你千万不可洗我的脚!”耶稣说:“如果我不洗你,你就与我没有关系了。” 9 西门.彼得说:“主啊,那就不单洗我的脚,连我的手和头都洗吧!” 10 耶稣说:“洗过澡的人,全身都洁净,只需要洗脚就可以了。你们是洁净的,但不是人人都是这样。” 11 原来耶稣知道谁要出卖他,所以他说“你们不是人人都是洁净的”。
12 耶稣洗完了门徒的脚,就穿上外衣,再坐下来,对他们说:“我给你们作的,你们明白吗? 13 你们称呼我‘老师,主’,你们说得对,我本来就是。 14 我是主,是老师,尚且洗你们的脚,你们也应当彼此洗脚。 15 我作了你们的榜样,是要你们也照着我所作的去行。 16 我实实在在告诉你们,仆人不能大过主人,奉差遣的也不能大过差他的人。 17 你们既然知道这些事,如果去实行,就有福了。 18 我这话不是指着你们全体说的;我认识我所拣选的人,但是经上的话:‘那吃我饭的,用他的脚踢我’,必须应验。 19 现在,事情还没有发生,我就告诉你们,使你们到时可以信我就是‘那一位’。 20 我实实在在告诉你们,那接待我所差遣的,就是接待我;接待我的,就是接待那差我来的。”
耶稣预言要被人出卖(A)
21 耶稣说了这话,心里很难过,就明明地说:“我实实在在告诉你们,你们中间有一个人要出卖我。” 22 门徒面面相觑,不知道他是指着谁说的。 23 门徒中有一个人,是耶稣所爱的,侧身挨近耶稣(“侧身挨近耶稣”原文作“在耶稣的胸怀里”)。 24 西门.彼得向他示意,叫他问耶稣是指着谁说的。 25 于是那个门徒贴近耶稣的胸怀,问他:“主啊,是谁呢?” 26 耶稣回答:“我蘸一小块饼给谁,谁就是了。”于是他蘸了一小块饼,递给加略人西门的儿子犹大。 27 犹大接过饼以后,撒但就进入他的心。耶稣对他说:“你要作的,快去作吧。” 28 在座的人,没有一个知道耶稣为甚么对犹大说这话。 29 犹大是管钱的,所以有人以为耶稣叫他去买过节用的东西,或是吩咐他拿点东西去赒济穷人。 30 犹大吃了饼,立刻就出去;那时是黑夜了。
吩咐门徒要彼此相爱
31 他出去以后,耶稣就说:“现在人子得了荣耀, 神也在人子身上得了荣耀, 32 ( 神既然在人子身上得了荣耀,)(有些抄本无此句)也要在自己身上荣耀人子,并且要立刻荣耀他。 33 孩子们啊,我跟你们在一起的时候不多了。你们要寻找我,但是我对犹太人说过,现在也照样对你们说:‘我去的地方,是你们不能去的。’ 34 我给你们一条新命令,就是要你们彼此相爱;我怎样爱你们,你们也要怎样彼此相爱。 35 如果你们彼此相爱,众人就会认出你们是我的门徒了。”
预言彼得不认主(B)
36 西门.彼得对耶稣说:“主啊,你往哪里去?”耶稣回答:“我去的地方,你现在不能跟着我去,但后来却要跟着我去。” 37 彼得说:“主啊,为甚么我现在不能跟着你去?为了你,我舍命也愿意!” 38 耶稣说:“你愿意为我舍命吗?我实实在在告诉你,鸡叫之前,你必定三次不认我。”
John 13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
III. The Book of Glory[a]
Chapter 13
The Washing of the Disciples’ Feet.[b] 1 Before the feast of Passover,[c] Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.(A) 2 The devil had already induced[d] Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper,(B) 3 fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God,(C) 4 he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. 5 [e]Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet(D) and dry them with the towel around his waist. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Master, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.” 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.”(E) 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.” 10 Jesus said to him, “Whoever has bathed[f] has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over; so you are clean, but not all.”(F) 11 For he knew who would betray him; for this reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.”(G)
12 So when he had washed their feet [and] put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you? 13 You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.(H) 14 If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.(I) 16 Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger[g] greater than the one who sent him.(J) 17 If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it. 18 I am not speaking of all of you. I know those whom I have chosen. But so that the scripture might be fulfilled, ‘The one who ate my food has raised his heel against me.’(K) 19 From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM. 20 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”(L)
Announcement of Judas’s Betrayal.(M) 21 When he had said this, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, “Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. 23 One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved,[h] was reclining at Jesus’ side.(N) 24 So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant. 25 He leaned back against Jesus’ chest and said to him, “Master, who is it?”(O) 26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I hand the morsel[i] after I have dipped it.” So he dipped the morsel and [took it and] handed it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. 27 After he took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”(P) 28 [Now] none of those reclining at table realized why he said this to him. 29 Some thought that since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus had told him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or to give something to the poor.(Q) 30 So he took the morsel and left at once. And it was night.
The New Commandment. 31 [j]When he had left, Jesus said,[k] “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 [If God is glorified in him,] God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once.(R) 33 My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say it to you.(S) 34 I give you a new commandment:[l] love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.(T) 35 This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Peter’s Denial Predicted. 36 Simon Peter said to him, “Master, where are you going?” Jesus answered [him], “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later.”(U) 37 Peter said to him, “Master, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” 38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times.”(V)
Footnotes
- 13:1–19:42 The Book of Glory. There is a major break here; the word “sign” is used again only in Jn 20:30. In this phase of Jesus’ return to the Father, the discourses (Jn 13–17) precede the traditional narrative of the passion (Jn 18–20) to interpret them for the Christian reader. This is the only extended example of esoteric teaching of disciples in John.
- 13:1–20 Washing of the disciples’ feet. This episode occurs in John at the place of the narration of the institution of the Eucharist in the synoptics. It may be a dramatization of Lk 22:27—“I am your servant.” It is presented as a “model” (“pattern”) of the crucifixion. It symbolizes cleansing from sin by sacrificial death.
- 13:1 Before the feast of Passover: this would be Thursday evening, before the day of preparation; in the synoptics, the Last Supper is a Passover meal taking place, in John’s chronology, on Friday evening. To the end: or, “completely.”
- 13:2 Induced: literally, “The devil put into the heart that Judas should hand him over.”
- 13:5 The act of washing another’s feet was one that could not be required of the lowliest Jewish slave. It is an allusion to the humiliating death of the crucifixion.
- 13:10 Bathed: many have suggested that this passage is a symbolic reference to baptism. The Greek root involved is used in baptismal contexts in 1 Cor 6:11; Eph 5:26; Ti 3:5; Hb 10:22.
- 13:16 Messenger: the Greek has apostolos, the only occurrence of the term in John. It is not used in the technical sense here.
- 13:23 The one whom Jesus loved: also mentioned in Jn 19:26; 20:2; 21:7. A disciple, called “another disciple” or “the other disciple,” is mentioned in Jn 18:15 and Jn 20:2; in the latter reference he is identified with the disciple whom Jesus loved. There is also an unnamed disciple in Jn 1:35–40; see note on Jn 1:37.
- 13:26 Morsel: probably the bitter herb dipped in salt water.
- 13:31–17:26 Two farewell discourses and a prayer. These seem to be Johannine compositions, including sayings of Jesus at the Last Supper and on other occasions, modeled on similar farewell discourses in Greek literature and the Old Testament (of Moses, Joshua, David).
- 13:31–38 Introduction: departure and return. Terms of coming and going predominate. These verses form an introduction to the last discourse of Jesus, which extends through Jn 14–17. In it John has collected Jesus’ words to his own (Jn 13:1). There are indications that several speeches have been fused together, e.g., in Jn 14:31 and Jn 17:1.
- 13:34 I give you a new commandment: this puts Jesus on a par with Yahweh. The commandment itself is not new; cf. Lv 19:18 and the note there.
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