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医好三十八年之病者

这事以后,到了犹太人的一个节期,耶稣就上耶路撒冷去。

耶路撒冷,靠近羊门有一个池子,希伯来话叫做毕士大,旁边有五个廊子, 里面躺着瞎眼的、瘸腿的、血气枯干的许多病人[a] 在那里有一个人,病了三十八年。 耶稣看见他躺着,知道他病了许久,就问他说:“你要痊愈吗?” 病人回答说:“先生,水动的时候,没有人把我放在池子里,我正去的时候,就有别人比我先下去。” 耶稣对他说:“起来,拿你的褥子走吧!” 那人立刻痊愈,就拿起褥子来走了。

犹太人责耶稣犯安息日

10 那天是安息日,所以犹太人对那医好的人说:“今天是安息日,你拿褥子是不可的!” 11 他却回答说:“那使我痊愈的对我说‘拿你的褥子走吧’。” 12 他们问他说:“对你说‘拿褥子走’的是什么人?” 13 那医好的人不知道是谁,因为那里的人多,耶稣已经躲开了。 14 后来耶稣在殿里遇见他,对他说:“你已经痊愈了,不要再犯罪,恐怕你遭遇的更加厉害。” 15 那人就去告诉犹太人,使他痊愈的是耶稣。 16 所以犹太人逼迫耶稣,因为他在安息日做了这事。 17 耶稣就对他们说:“我父做事直到如今,我也做事。” 18 所以犹太人越发想要杀他,因他不但犯了安息日,并且称神为他的父,将自己和神当做平等。

尊敬子如尊敬父

19 耶稣对他们说:“我实实在在地告诉你们:子凭着自己不能做什么,唯有看见父所做的,子才能做;父所做的事,子也照样做。 20 父爱子,将自己所做的一切事指给他看,还要将比这更大的事指给他看叫你们稀奇。 21 父怎样叫死人起来,使他们活着,子也照样随自己的意思使人活着。 22 父不审判什么人,乃将审判的事全交于子, 23 叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一样。不尊敬子的,就是不尊敬差子来的父。 24 我实实在在地告诉你们:那听我话又信差我来者的,就有永生,不至于定罪,是已经出死入生了。 25 我实实在在地告诉你们:时候将到,现在就是了,死人要听见神儿子的声音,听见的人就要活了。 26 因为父怎样在自己有生命,就赐给他儿子也照样在自己有生命, 27 并且因为他是人子,就赐给他行审判的权柄。 28 你们不要把这事看做稀奇。时候要到,凡在坟墓里的,都要听见他的声音,就出来, 29 行善的复活得生,作恶的复活定罪。

30 “我凭着自己不能做什么,我怎么听见就怎么审判。我的审判也是公平的,因为我不求自己的意思,只求那差我来者的意思。 31 我若为自己作见证,我的见证就不真。 32 另有一位给我作见证,我也知道他给我作的见证是真的。 33 你们曾差人到约翰那里,他为真理作过见证。 34 其实我所受的见证不是从人来的,然而我说这些话,为要叫你们得救。 35 约翰是点着的明灯,你们情愿暂时喜欢他的光。 36 但我有比约翰更大的见证,因为父交给我要我成就的事,就是我所做的事,这便见证我是父所差来的。 37 差我来的父也为我作过见证。你们从来没有听见他的声音,也没有看见他的形象。 38 你们并没有他的道存在心里,因为他所差来的,你们不信。

圣经为耶稣的证据

39 “你们查考圣经[b],因你们以为内中有永生。给我作见证的就是这经, 40 然而你们不肯到我这里来得生命 41 我不受从人来的荣耀。 42 但我知道,你们心里没有神的爱。 43 我奉我父的名来,你们并不接待我;若有别人奉自己的名来,你们倒要接待他。 44 你们互相受荣耀,却不求从独一之神来的荣耀,怎能信我呢?

不信摩西怎能信主

45 “不要想我在父面前要告你们,有一位告你们的,就是你们所仰赖的摩西 46 你们如果信摩西,也必信我,因为他书上有指着我写的话。 47 你们若不信他的书,怎能信我的话呢?”

Footnotes

  1. 约翰福音 5:3 有古卷在此有:等候水动,4因为有天使按时下池子搅动那水,水动之后,谁先下去,无论害什么病就痊愈了。
  2. 约翰福音 5:39 或作:应当查考圣经。

Chapter 5[a]

Cure on a Sabbath. After this, there was a feast[b] of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.(A) Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep [Gate][c] a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.(B) In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.[d] [][e] One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”(C) Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.(D)

Now that day was a sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”(E) 11 He answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?” 13 The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.(F) 14 [f]After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him,(G) “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. 16 Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.(H) 17 [g]But Jesus answered them,(I) “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” 18 For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.(J)

The Work of the Son. 19 [h]Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing;(K) for what he does, his son will do also. 20 For the Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.(L) 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life,[i] so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.(M) 22 Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment[j] to his Son,(N) 23 so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life.(O) 25 Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.(P) 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself.(Q) 27 And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man.(R) 28 [k]Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice(S) 29 and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.(T)

30 “I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.(U)

Witnesses to Jesus. 31 (V)“If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony cannot be verified. 32 But there is another[l] who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. 33 You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.(W) 34 I do not accept testimony from a human being, but I say this so that you may be saved.(X) 35 He was a burning and shining lamp,[m] and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.(Y) 36 But I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.(Z) 37 Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,(AA) 38 and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.(AB) 39 You search[n] the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf.(AC) 40 But you do not want to come to me to have life.

Unbelief of Jesus’ Hearers. 41 “I do not accept human praise;[o] 42 moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.(AD) 43 I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.(AE) 44 How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?(AF) 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.(AG) 46 For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.(AH) 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Footnotes

  1. 5:1–47 The self-revelation of Jesus continues in Jerusalem at a feast. The third sign (cf. Jn 2:11; 4:54) is performed, the cure of a paralytic by Jesus’ life-giving word. The water of the pool fails to bring life; Jesus’ word does.
  2. 5:1 The reference in Jn 5:45–46 to Moses suggests that the feast was Pentecost. The connection of that feast with the giving of the law to Moses on Sinai, attested in later Judaism, may already have been made in the first century. The feast could also be Passover (cf. Jn 6:4). John stresses that the day was a sabbath (Jn 5:9).
  3. 5:2 There is no noun with Sheep. “Gate” is supplied on the grounds that there must have been a gate in the NE wall of the temple area where animals for sacrifice were brought in; cf. Neh 3:1, 32; 12:39. Hebrew: more precisely, Aramaic. Bethesda: preferred to variants “Be(th)zatha” and “Bethsaida”; bêt-’ešdatayīn is given as the name of a double pool northeast of the temple area in the Qumran Copper Roll. Five porticoes: a pool excavated in Jerusalem actually has five porticoes.
  4. 5:3 The Caesarean and Western recensions, followed by the Vulgate, add “waiting for the movement of the water.” Apparently an intermittent spring in the pool bubbled up occasionally (see Jn 5:7). This turbulence was believed to cure.
  5. 5:4 Toward the end of the second century in the West and among the fourth-century Greek Fathers, an additional verse was known: “For [from time to time] an angel of the Lord used to come down into the pool; and the water was stirred up, so the first one to get in [after the stirring of the water] was healed of whatever disease afflicted him.” The angel was a popular explanation of the turbulence and the healing powers attributed to it. This verse is missing from all early Greek manuscripts and the earliest versions, including the original Vulgate. Its vocabulary is markedly non-Johannine.
  6. 5:14 While the cure of the paralytic in Mk 2:1–12 is associated with the forgiveness of sins, Jesus never drew a one-to-one connection between sin and suffering (cf. Jn 9:3; Lk 12:1–5), as did Ez 18:20.
  7. 5:17 Sabbath observance (Jn 5:10) was based on God’s resting on the seventh day (cf. Gn 2:2–3; Ex 20:11). Philo and some rabbis insisted that God’s providence remains active on the sabbath, keeping all things in existence, giving life in birth and taking it away in death. Other rabbis taught that God rested from creating, but not from judging (= ruling, governing). Jesus here claims the same authority to work as the Father, and, in the discourse that follows, the same divine prerogatives: power over life and death (Jn 5:21, 24–26) and judgment (Jn 5:22, 27).
  8. 5:19 This proverb or parable is taken from apprenticeship in a trade: the activity of a son is modeled on that of his father. Jesus’ dependence on the Father is justification for doing what the Father does.
  9. 5:21 Gives life: in the Old Testament, a divine prerogative (Dt 32:39; 1 Sm 2:6; 2 Kgs 5:7; Tb 13:2; Is 26:19; Dn 12:2).
  10. 5:22 Judgment: another divine prerogative, often expressed as acquittal or condemnation (Dt 32:36; Ps 43:1).
  11. 5:28–29 While Jn 5:19–27 present realized eschatology, Jn 5:28–29 are future eschatology; cf. Dn 12:2.
  12. 5:32 Another: likely the Father, who in four different ways gives testimony to Jesus, as indicated in the verse groupings Jn 5:33–34, 36, 37–38, 39–40.
  13. 5:35 Lamp: cf. Ps 132:17—“I will place a lamp for my anointed (= David),” and possibly the description of Elijah in Sir 48:1. But only for a while, indicating the temporary and subordinate nature of John’s mission.
  14. 5:39 You search: this may be an imperative: “Search the scriptures, because you think that you have eternal life through them.”
  15. 5:41 Praise: the same Greek word means “praise” or “honor” (from others) and “glory” (from God). There is a play on this in Jn 5:44.