變水為酒

第三天,在加利利迦拿有一個婚宴。耶穌的母親在那裡, 耶穌和他的門徒們也被邀請赴宴。 酒用盡了,耶穌的母親對他說:「他們沒有酒了。」

耶穌對她說:「母親[a],這與你我有什麼關係?我的時候還沒有到。」

他的母親對僕人們說:「他吩咐你們什麼,你們就做什麼。」

猶太人潔淨的規矩,有六口石缸擺在那裡。每缸可容兩三桶[b]水。

耶穌對僕人們說:「把這些缸裝滿水。」他們就裝滿了,直到缸沿。 耶穌又對他們說:「現在舀出來,送去給管宴席的。」他們就送去了。

當管宴席的嘗了那水變的酒,並不知道這是從哪裡來的,只有舀水的那些僕人知道。管宴席的就叫來新郎, 10 對他說:「人人都是先擺上好酒,等賓客喝醉了,才擺上次等的。你卻把好酒留到現在!」

11 耶穌在加利利迦拿行了這頭一件神蹟,顯明了他的榮耀,他的門徒們就信了他。

12 這事以後,耶穌和他的母親、兄弟以及他的門徒們,都下到迦百農去,在那裡住了幾天。

潔淨聖殿

13 猶太人的逾越節快到了,耶穌上耶路撒冷去。 14 他看見聖殿裡有賣牛、羊、鴿子的,還有兌換銀幣的人坐在那裡。 15 耶穌就用繩子做了一條鞭子,把所有的牛、羊都從聖殿裡趕出去,倒出兌換銀幣之人的銀幣,並推翻了他們的桌子, 16 又對賣鴿子的人說:「把這些東西從這裡拿走!不要把我父的殿當成做買賣的地方!」

17 他的門徒們就想起經上記著:「我為你的殿,心火焚燒。」[c]

18 於是那些猶太人問耶穌說:「你做這些事,有什麼權柄的[d]憑據給我們看呢?」

19 耶穌回答說:「你們把這聖所毀了吧!三天內我要把它建起來。」

20 那些猶太人說:「這聖所建了四十六年,而你能在三天內把它建起來嗎?」

21 其實耶穌所說的聖所,就是指他自己的身體。 22 當他從死人中復活以後,他的門徒們才想起他說過這話,就相信了經上的話和耶穌所說的話。

23 當耶穌在耶路撒冷過逾越節的時候,許多人看見他所行的這些神蹟,就信了他的名。 24 但耶穌自己卻信不過他們,因為他了解所有的人。 25 他也不需要誰來見證人的事,因為他知道人裡面是什麼。

Footnotes

  1. 約翰福音 2:4 母親——原文直譯「婦人」。
  2. 約翰福音 2:6 兩三桶——原文為「2-3梅翠提斯」;或譯作「約一百公升」。1梅翠提斯=39公升。
  3. 約翰福音 2:17 《詩篇》69:9。
  4. 約翰福音 2:18 權柄的——輔助詞語。

The First Sign: Turning Water into Wine

On the third day a wedding took place in Cana(A) of Galilee.(B) Jesus’s mother(C) was there, and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother told him, ‘They don’t have any wine.’

‘What has this concern of yours to do with me,[a](D) woman? ’(E) Jesus asked. ‘My hour has not yet come.’

‘Do whatever he tells you,’ his mother told the servants.

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification.(F) Each contained eighty or one hundred and twenty litres.[b]

‘Fill the jars with water,’ Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. Then he said to them, ‘Now draw some out and take it to the head waiter.’[c] And they did.

When the head waiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from – though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom 10 and told him, ‘Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.’

11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana(G) of Galilee.(H) He revealed(I) his glory,(J) and his disciples believed in him.

12 After this, he went down to Capernaum,(K) together with his mother, his brothers,(L) and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

Cleansing the Temple

13 The Jewish Passover(M) was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.(N) 14 In the temple(O) he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money-changers sitting there. 15 After making a whip out of cords,(P) he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep(Q) and oxen. He also poured out the money-changers’ coins and overturned the tables. 16 He told those who were selling doves, ‘Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s(R) house(S) into a marketplace! ’[d](T)

17 And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal(U) for your house will consume(V) me.[e](W)

18 So the Jews replied to him, ‘What sign will you show us for doing these things? ’

19 Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this temple,[f](X) and I will raise it up in three days.’(Y)

20 Therefore the Jews said, ‘This temple took forty-six years to build,[g] and will you raise it up in three days? ’(Z)

21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.(AA) 22 So when he was raised from the dead,(AB) his disciples remembered that he had said this,(AC) and they believed the Scripture(AD) and the statement Jesus had made.

23 While he was in Jerusalem(AE) during the Passover Festival,(AF) many believed in his name(AG) when they saw the signs he was doing. 24 Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all 25 and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.(AH)

Footnotes

  1. 2:4 Or ‘What does that have to do with you and me; lit ‘What to me and to you; Mt 8:29; Mk 1:24; 5:7; Lk 8:28
  2. 2:6 Lit two or three measures
  3. 2:8 Lit ruler of the table
  4. 2:16 Lit a house of business
  5. 2:17 Ps 69:9
  6. 2:19 Or sanctuary, also in vv. 20,21
  7. 2:20 Or was built forty-six years ago