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
New Catholic Bible
The First Sign Worked by Jesus
Chapter 2
The Wedding Feast at Cana.[a] 1 On the third day, there was a wedding at Cana[b] in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. 3 When the wine was exhausted, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 Jesus responded, “Woman,[c] what concern is this to us? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Now standing nearby there were six stone water jars, of the type used for Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. 7 Jesus instructed the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” When they had filled them to the brim, 8 he ordered them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief steward,” and they did so.
9 When the chief steward tasted the water that had become wine, he did not know where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water knew. The chief steward called over the bridegroom 10 and said, “Everyone serves the choice wine first, and then an inferior vintage when the guests have been drinking for a while. However, you have saved the best wine until now.”[d]
11 Jesus performed this, the first of his signs,[e] at Cana in Galilee, thereby revealing his glory, and his disciples believed in him. 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brethren,[f] and his disciples, and they remained there for a few days.
Worship of the Father in Spirit and Truth[g]
The Mystery of the New Temple
Jesus Casts the Merchants Out of the Temple.[h]13 When the time of the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as money changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He also overturned the tables of the money changers, scattering their coins, 16 and to those who were selling the doves he ordered, “Take them out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!” 17 His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 The Jews then challenged him, “What sign can you show us to justify your doing this?” 19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews responded, “This temple has taken forty-six years to build, and you are going to raise it up in three days!” 21 But the temple he was talking about was the temple of his body. 22 After he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
The Mystery of the New Covenant
23 Jesus in Jerusalem.[i]While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, many people saw the signs he was performing and came to believe in his name. 24 However, Jesus would not entrust himself to them because he fully understood them all. 25 He did not need evidence from others about man, for he clearly understood men.
Footnotes
- John 2:1 The evangelist calls special attention to the presence of the Mother of Jesus. Her role is to call Jesus to the cross and then stand by him in his Passion (Jn 19:25-26).
- John 2:1 Cana was five miles northeast of Nazareth.
- John 2:4 Woman: a universal address from son to mother; it is used again in Jn 19:26, where its meaning becomes evident: Mary is the new Eve, mother of the living (Gen 3:15, 20). My hour has not yet come: the hour is that of Jesus’ glorification and return to the Father (see Jn 7:30; 8:20; 12:23, 27; 13:1; 17:1; 19:27). It is determined by the Father and cannot be anticipated. The miracle worked at Mary’s intercession is a prophetic symbol of it.
- John 2:10 The first wine represents the first Covenant, the second better wine represents the New Covenant. Jesus is prefiguring the Messianic banquet.
- John 2:11 Signs: a term used by John to indicate Jesus’ miracles, emphasizing the significance rather than the marvelous character of the event (see Jn 4:54; 6:14; 9:16; 11:47). These signs reveal Jesus’ glory (Jn 1:14, Isa 35:1-2; Joel 4:18; Am 9:13).
- John 2:12 Brethren: that is, his close relatives. See notes on Mt 12:46-50 and 12:47.
- John 2:13 The author of the fourth Gospel brings us from one Jewish feast to another; he seems to want to make them the points of reference with which to link the discourses of Jesus.
The incidents that follow are therefore connected with the feast of Passover. They attest that Jesus has come to establish a new and spiritual worship that is no longer reserved to a single people or to a place. - John 2:13 Passover is the feast of Unleavened Bread, a sign of renewal (see Ex 12:15). Jesus knows, better than the Prophets (Isa 1:11; Jer 7:4; Am 5:21), that his Father has nothing to do with this traffic in sacrifices and offerings, if the interior gift of the heart is lacking.
In fact, in the evangelist’s view, this temple of stone has already lost its function, and the true dwelling of the Father among human beings will be the humanity of the risen Jesus, who is the focal point of all worship. The construction of the new temple in Jerusalem had been begun by Herod the Great in 20–19 B.C. According to v. 20, then, we are in the year A.D. 27–28. - John 2:23 To be filled with wonder at what Jesus can do, as was Nicodemus, is not yet faith. Faith is acceptance of the testimony of Jesus about God and about the plan of Jesus. Faith is another life, a transformed existence. The flesh—i.e., we with our material and intellectual possibilities—does not have the power to transform our life.
This transformation comes like the wind—mysterious and surprising—the same word in Hebrew and Greek expressing spirit and wind. The idea here is to bring to mind an event (rebirth) in which God alone has the initiative. Only those who open themselves to the Spirit, those who want to be reborn in Baptism and transformed as children of God, can believe in the new life that Jesus reveals and whose source is the Spirit—for they live it as by a gift.
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