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耶稣是真葡萄树

15 “我是真葡萄树,我父是培植的人。 所有属我而不结果子的枝子,他就剪去;所有结果子的,他就修剪干净,让它结更多的果子。 现在你们因着我对你们所讲的道,已经干净了。 你们要住在我里面,我也就住在你们里面。枝子若不连在葡萄树上,自己就不能结果子;你们若不住在我里面,也是这样。 我是葡萄树,你们是枝子。住在我里面的,我也住在他里面,他就结出很多果子;因为离开了我,你们就不能作甚么。 人若不住在我里面,就像枝子丢在外面枯干了,人把它们拾起来,丢在火里烧掉了。 你们若住在我里面,我的话也留在你们里面;无论你们想要甚么,祈求,就给你们成就。 这样,你们结出很多果子,我父就因此得荣耀,你们也就是我的门徒了。 父怎样爱我,我也怎样爱你们;你们要住在我的爱里。 10 如果你们遵守我的命令,就必定住在我的爱里,正像我遵守了我父的命令,住在他的爱里一样。

11 “我把这些事告诉了你们,好让我的喜乐存在你们心里,并且使你们的喜乐满溢。 12 你们要彼此相爱,像我爱你们一样,这就是我的命令。 13 人为朋友舍命,人间的爱没有比这个更大的了。 14 你们若行我所吩咐你们的,就是我的朋友了。 15 我不再称你们为仆人,因为仆人不知道主人所作的事;我已经称你们为朋友了,因为我从我父那里听见的一切,都已经告诉你们了。 16 不是你们拣选了我,而是我拣选了你们,并且分派你们去结果子,就是结常存的果子,使你们奉我的名,无论向父求甚么,他必定赐给你们。 17 我把这些事吩咐你们,是要你们彼此相爱。

世人恨主也恨门徒

18 “如果世人恨你们,你们要知道他们在恨你们以先,已经恨我了。 19 你们若属于这世界,世人必定爱属自己的;但因为你们不属于世界,而是我从世界中拣选了你们,所以世人就恨你们。 20 你们要记住我对你们说过的话:‘仆人不能大过主人。’他们若迫害我,也必定迫害你们;他们若遵守我的话,也必定遵守你们的话。 21 但他们因着我的名,要向你们行这一切,因为他们不认识那差我来的。 22 如果我没有来,也没有对他们讲过甚么,他们就没有罪;但现在他们的罪是无可推诿的了。 23 恨我的,也恨我的父。 24 如果我没有在他们中间作过别人没有作过的事,他们就没有罪;但现在我和我的父,他们都看见了,也都恨恶。 25 这就应验了他们律法上所写的话:‘他们无故地恨我。’

26 “我从父那里要差来给你们的保惠师,就是从父那里出来的真理的灵,他来到的时候,要为我作见证。 27 你们也要作见证,因为从开始你们就是跟我在一起的。”

Jesús, la vid verdadera

15 Yo soy la vid verdadera(A), y mi Padre es el viñador(B). Todo sarmiento que en mí no da fruto, lo quita; y todo el que da fruto, lo poda[a] para que dé más fruto. Vosotros ya estáis limpios por la palabra(C) que os he hablado. Permaneced en mí(D), y yo en vosotros. Como el sarmiento no puede dar fruto por sí mismo si no permanece en la vid, así tampoco vosotros si no permanecéis en mí. Yo soy la vid, vosotros los sarmientos; el que permanece en mí y yo en él, ese da mucho fruto(E), porque separados de mí nada podéis hacer. Si alguno no permanece en mí, es echado fuera como un sarmiento(F) y se seca; y los recogen, los echan al fuego y se queman. Si permanecéis en mí, y mis palabras permanecen en vosotros, pedid lo que queráis y os será hecho(G). En esto es glorificado mi Padre(H), en que deis mucho fruto, y así probéis que sois[b] mis discípulos(I). Como el Padre me ha amado(J), así también yo os he amado; permaneced en mi amor. 10 Si guardáis mis mandamientos, permaneceréis en mi amor(K), así como yo he guardado los mandamientos de mi Padre(L) y permanezco en su amor. 11 Estas cosas os he hablado, para que mi gozo esté en vosotros, y vuestro gozo sea perfecto[c](M). 12 Este es mi mandamiento: que os améis los unos a los otros, así como yo os he amado(N). 13 Nadie tiene un amor mayor que este: que uno dé[d] su vida(O) por sus amigos. 14 Vosotros sois mis amigos(P) si hacéis lo que yo os mando(Q). 15 Ya no os llamo siervos, porque el siervo no sabe lo que hace su señor; pero os he llamado amigos, porque os he dado a conocer todo lo que he oído de mi Padre(R). 16 Vosotros no me escogisteis a mí, sino que yo os escogí a vosotros(S), y os designé para que vayáis y deis fruto(T), y que vuestro fruto permanezca; para que todo lo que pidáis al Padre en mi nombre os lo conceda(U). 17 Esto os mando: que os améis los unos a los otros(V). 18 Si el mundo os odia, sabéis[e] que me ha odiado a mí(W) antes que a vosotros. 19 Si fuerais del mundo, el mundo amaría lo suyo; pero como no sois del mundo, sino que yo os escogí(X) de entre el mundo, por eso el mundo os odia(Y). 20 Acordaos de la palabra que yo os dije: «Un siervo no es mayor que su señor(Z)». Si me persiguieron a mí, también os perseguirán a vosotros(AA); si guardaron mi palabra(AB), también guardarán la vuestra. 21 Pero todo esto os harán por causa de mi nombre(AC), porque no conocen al que me envió(AD). 22 Si yo no hubiera venido y no les hubiera hablado, no tendrían pecado[f](AE), pero ahora no tienen excusa por su pecado. 23 El que me odia a mí, odia también a mi Padre. 24 Si yo no hubiera hecho entre ellos las obras(AF) que ningún otro ha hecho, no tendrían pecado[g](AG); pero ahora las han visto, y me han odiado a mí y también a mi Padre. 25 Pero han hecho esto para que se cumpla la palabra que está escrita en su ley(AH): «Me odiaron sin causa(AI)». 26 Cuando venga el Consolador[h](AJ), a quien yo enviaré del Padre(AK), es decir, el Espíritu de verdad(AL) que procede del Padre, Él dará testimonio de mí(AM), 27 y vosotros daréis testimonio[i] también(AN), porque habéis estado conmigo desde el principio(AO).

Footnotes

  1. Juan 15:2 Lit., limpia
  2. Juan 15:8 O, y os convirtáis en
  3. Juan 15:11 O, completo
  4. Juan 15:13 Lit., ponga
  5. Juan 15:18 O, sabed
  6. Juan 15:22 I.e., culpa
  7. Juan 15:24 I.e., culpa
  8. Juan 15:26 O, Intercesor; gr., Parácletos; i.e., uno llamado al lado para ayudar
  9. Juan 15:27 O, dad testimonio

The Community of the Witnesses to Christ[a]

Chapter 15

Union with Jesus[b]

“I am the true vine,
and my Father is the vinegrower.
He removes every branch
that does not bear fruit,
and every branch that does
he prunes to make it bear even more.
You have already been cleansed
by the word I have spoken to you.
“Abide in me,
as I abide in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself
unless it abides in the vine,
so you cannot bear fruit
unless you abide in me.
“I am the vine,
you are the branches.
Whoever abides in me, and I in him,
will bear much fruit.
Apart from me you can do nothing.
Whoever does not abide in me
will be thrown away like a withered branch.
Such branches are gathered up,
thrown into the fire, and burned.
“If you abide in me
and my words abide in you,
you may ask for whatever you wish,
and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit
and become my disciples.
“As the Father has loved me,
so have I loved you.
Remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments,
you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.
11 “I have told you these things
so that my joy may be in you
and your joy may be complete.

Love as Jesus Does[c]

12 “This is my commandment:
love one another
as I have loved you.
13 No one can have greater love
than to lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends
if you do what I command you.
15 “I shall no longer call you servants,
because a servant does not know
what his master is doing.
I have called you friends
because I have revealed to you
everything that I have heard from my Father.
16 “You did not choose me.
Rather, I chose you.
And I appointed you
to go out and bear fruit,
fruit that will remain,
so that the Father may give you
whatever you ask him in my name.
17 The command I give you is this:
love one another.

Witnesses to Jesus in the Face of the World’s Hatred[d]

18 “If the world hates you,
be aware that it hated me
before it hated you.
19 If you belonged to the world,
the world would love you as its own.
But you do not belong to the world
because I have chosen you out of the world,
and therefore the world hates you.
20 “Remember the word that I said to you:
‘a servant is not greater than his master.’
If they persecuted me,
they will persecute you.
If they kept my word,
they will keep yours as well.
21 But they will do all these things to you
on account of my name,
because they do not know the one who sent me.
22 “If I had not come
and spoken to them,
they would not be guilty of sin,
but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me
hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done works among them
that no one else had ever done,
they would not be guilty of sin.
But now they have seen and hated
both me and my Father.
25 All this was to fulfill the word
that is inscribed in their Law:
‘They hated me without cause.’
26 “When the Advocate comes
whom I will send you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father,
he will testify on my behalf.
27 And you also are my witnesses
because you have been with me from the beginning.

Footnotes

  1. John 15:1 To the Lord’s testament (farewell discourse) were added new instructions, as though to complete it. No doubt people did not want to lose other words of the Master, often meditated on, to explain the condition of the Christian community.
    It is the life of the community on which these chapters throw light. In this group of texts, chs. 13 to 17, none of our usual words are pronounced; People of God, Body of Christ, Church, congregation. The words preferred are: to abide in, to love, to testify. In ch. 16, an image is used that suggests this mystery: the image of the vine and the branches. In these texts, love is above all a characteristic of the community itself. It is the Spirit who gives these groups the strength to exist as people of love and as witnesses of Christ.
  2. John 15:1 Every reader of the Bible knows that the image of the vine suggests not only the union but also the tragic relationship between God and Israel. The Prophets rebuked the people of the Old Testament for not producing the fruit God expected of them, for being a spouse often unfaithful to her calling to bear witness to God among the nations (see Isa 5:1-7; Jer 2:21; Ezek 19:10-14; Hos 10:1). Jesus is the new Israel, the only vine that the Father has planted. This means that the radical, constitutive reality of the Church is her inclusion in Christ through Baptism, grace, and close attachment, and that any fruitfulness the disciple may have depends on this union with Christ.
  3. John 15:12 There are many reasons for people to regroup: affinity, interest, defense. But the Christian community has only one reason: Christ and his choice of us. It also has only one way of life: to love like Christ, who went so far as to give his life. To have Christ’s love is a gift. Then prayer is not a delusion; then the Christian community’s mission can bear fruit. The fruit has already been given: God’s love for us. In Christianity all is a gift.
  4. John 15:18 The trial of Jesus, which the fourth Gospel unveils all through its pages, will not cease until the Father, to whom he is going, will have rendered justice to him in glorifying him. This drama, which people sometimes would like to conceal through reassuring words and sentiments, will not cease until the end of time. Persecution awaits Jesus, not because of some fatal error but because Christianity is different from what we want and claim it to be.
    The early Christians were excluded from the synagogue; hatred and violence were stirred up against them under the guise of religion. Blindness and stubbornness: this is the world in the Johannine sense, the world of the persecutors. The Spirit is the strength and the light that assists the persecuted to hold fast in this affront, which no doubt also comes to pass in the heart of every believer.

The Vine and the Branches

15 “I am(A) the true vine,(B) and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,(C) while every branch that does bear fruit(D) he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.(E) Remain in me, as I also remain in you.(F) No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;(G) apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.(H) If you remain in me(I) and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.(J) This is to my Father’s glory,(K) that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.(L)

“As the Father has loved me,(M) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands,(N) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.(O) 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.(P) 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.(Q) 14 You are my friends(R) if you do what I command.(S) 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.(T) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you(U) so that you might go and bear fruit(V)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.(W) 17 This is my command: Love each other.(X)

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you,(Y) keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you(Z) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(AA) 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[b](AB) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.(AC) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(AD) for they do not know the one who sent me.(AE) 22 If I had not come and spoken to them,(AF) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.(AG) 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did,(AH) they would not be guilty of sin.(AI) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:(AJ) ‘They hated me without reason.’[c](AK)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

26 “When the Advocate(AL) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father(AM)—the Spirit of truth(AN) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.(AO) 27 And you also must testify,(AP) for you have been with me from the beginning.(AQ)

Footnotes

  1. John 15:2 The Greek for he prunes also means he cleans.
  2. John 15:20 John 13:16
  3. John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4

15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.