约翰福音 2
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
变水为酒
2 第三天，在加利利的迦拿有一个婚宴。耶稣的母亲在那里， 2 耶稣和他的门徒们也被邀请赴宴。 3 酒用尽了，耶稣的母亲对他说：“他们没有酒了。”
4 耶稣对她说：“母亲[a]，这与你我有什么关系？我的时候还没有到。”
5 他的母亲对仆人们说：“他吩咐你们什么，你们就做什么。”
6 照犹太人洁净的规矩，有六口石缸摆在那里。每缸可容两三桶[b]水。
7 耶稣对仆人们说：“把这些缸装满水。”他们就装满了，直到缸沿。 8 耶稣又对他们说：“现在舀出来，送去给管宴席的。”他们就送去了。
9 当管宴席的尝了那水变的酒，并不知道这是从哪里来的，只有舀水的那些仆人知道。管宴席的就叫来新郎， 10 对他说：“人人都是先摆上好酒，等宾客喝醉了，才摆上次等的。你却把好酒留到现在！”
11 耶稣在加利利的迦拿行了这头一件神迹，显明了他的荣耀，他的门徒们就信了他。
12 这事以后，耶稣和他的母亲、兄弟以及他的门徒们，都下到迦百农去，在那里住了几天。
洁净圣殿
13 犹太人的逾越节快到了，耶稣上耶路撒冷去。 14 他看见圣殿里有卖牛、羊、鸽子的，还有兑换银币的人坐在那里。 15 耶稣就用绳子做了一条鞭子，把所有的牛、羊都从圣殿里赶出去，倒出兑换银币之人的银币，并推翻了他们的桌子， 16 又对卖鸽子的人说：“把这些东西从这里拿走！不要把我父的殿当成做买卖的地方！”
17 他的门徒们就想起经上记着：“我为你的殿，心火焚烧。”[c]
18 于是那些犹太人问耶稣说：“你做这些事，有什么权柄的[d]凭据给我们看呢？”
19 耶稣回答说：“你们把这圣所毁了吧！三天内我要把它建起来。”
20 那些犹太人说：“这圣所建了四十六年，而你能在三天内把它建起来吗？”
21 其实耶稣所说的圣所，就是指他自己的身体。 22 当他从死人中复活以后，他的门徒们才想起他说过这话，就相信了经上的话和耶稣所说的话。
23 当耶稣在耶路撒冷过逾越节的时候，许多人看见他所行的这些神迹，就信了他的名。 24 但耶稣自己却信不过他们，因为他了解所有的人。 25 他也不需要谁来见证人的事，因为他知道人里面是什么。
John 2
EasyEnglish Bible
The marriage at Cana
2 Two days after that, there was a marriage party. It was in the town of Cana, in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. 2 People had asked Jesus and his disciples to come to the party too. 3 When people had drunk all the wine, Jesus' mother said to him, ‘They have no more wine.’ 4 Jesus replied, ‘Woman, why do you tell me this? It is not my time yet.’ 5 His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you to do.’
6 There were six big pots there. People had used stone to make them. Each pot could contain about 100 litres of water. The water was there so that the Jews could wash themselves in the way that their special rules taught. 7 Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the pots with water.’ So they filled the pots to the top. 8 Then he said, ‘Now take some of the water from the pots and give it to the master of the party.’ So they did that. 9 The master of the party tasted the water. The water had now become wine! The master did not know where the wine had come from. But the servants who had given it to him knew about it. Then the master asked the new husband to come to him. 10 The master said to him, ‘Everyone else brings out the best wine first. When people have had plenty to drink, then they give people cheaper wine. But you are different. You have kept the best wine until now.’
11 Jesus did this first miracle at Cana, in Galilee. In this way, Jesus showed how great and powerful he was. And his disciples believed in him.
Jesus goes to the temple
12 After this, Jesus went to a town called Capernaum. His mother, his brothers and his disciples went with him. They stayed there for a few days.[a]
13 It was almost time for the Jewish Passover festival. So Jesus went to Jerusalem.[b] 14 He went into the yard of the temple. There he found people who were selling cows, sheep and doves. Other people were sitting at tables to change coins for people. 15 So Jesus made a whip from some pieces of rope. Then he made all the people leave the temple quickly, with the sheep and the cows. He threw onto the ground all the coins of the men who changed money. He turned their tables over. 16 He said to the people who sold birds, ‘Take them out of here! Do not make my Father's house into a market!’ 17 His disciples remembered what it says in the Bible: ‘My love for your house burns inside me like a fire.’[c]
18 Then the Jews asked Jesus, ‘What is your authority to do this? Do a miracle to show us that you really do have authority.’ 19 Jesus answered them, ‘If you destroy this house of God, I will build it up again in three days.’ 20 The Jews replied, ‘People have worked for 46 years to build this house. But you say that you will build it again in three days!’ 21 But the house that Jesus was speaking about was his own body. 22 The disciples remembered this when Jesus had become alive again after his death. They remembered that he had said this. Then they believed what the Bible taught. They also believed the words that Jesus had spoken.
23 While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover festival, he did many miracles.[d] Many people saw these miracles that showed he was from God. As a result, they believed in Jesus. 24 But Jesus himself did not trust the people. He knew what all people are really like. 25 He did not need anyone to tell him what people are like. He knew already what was really in each person.
Footnotes
- 2:12 Capernaum was another town in Galilee. It was next to the lake called Lake Galilee.
- 2:13 The Passover was an event that was very special to the Jews. Every year, all the men had to come to the temple at Jerusalem for the Passover Festival. They remembered the time, many years before, when God had led their ancestors out of Egypt. God had saved them so that they did not have to be slaves to Egypt's people. He had killed all the oldest sons of Egypt's people. But he had saved the Jewish sons of Israel's people. He told the Jews that they must put a lamb's blood on the wood over the top and on the sides of their doors. If the blood was there, their oldest sons would not die. See Exodus 12.
- 2:17 See Psalms 69:9.
- 2:23 Jesus did many miracles, but John only tells us about seven of them. In Greek, John uses a word for miracle that means sign. It tells us more about God.
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