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給五千人吃飽的神蹟(A)

這些事以後,耶穌渡過加利利海,就是提比里亞海。 有一大群人,因為看見了他在病人身上所行的神蹟,就跟隨了他。 耶穌上了山,同門徒坐在那裡。 那時猶太人的逾越節近了。 耶穌舉目觀看,見一大群人向他走過來,就對腓力說:“我們從哪裡買餅給這些人吃呢?” 他說這話,是要試驗腓力,因他自己早已知道要怎樣作。 腓力回答:“就算二百銀幣買的餅,每人分一點,也是不夠的。” 有一個門徒,就是西門.彼得的弟弟安得烈,對耶穌說: “這裡有個小孩子,帶著五個大麥餅、兩條魚;只是分給這麼多人,有甚麼用呢?” 10 耶穌吩咐他們:“你們叫眾人坐下。”原來那地方的草很多,眾人就坐下,單是男人的數目約有五千。 11 耶穌拿起餅來,祝謝了,就分給坐著的人;分魚也是這樣,都是隨著他們所要的。 12 他們吃飽了之後,耶穌對門徒說:“把剩下的零碎收拾起來,免得浪費。” 13 門徒就把眾人吃剩那五個大麥餅的零碎收拾起來,裝滿了十二個籃子。 14 眾人看見耶穌所行的神蹟,就說:“這真是那要到世上來的先知。” 15 耶穌知道群眾要來強迫他作王,就獨自又退到山上去了。

耶穌在海面上行走(B)

16 到了晚上,他的門徒下到海邊去。 17 他們上了船,要渡海往迦百農去。那時天已經黑了,耶穌還沒有到他們那裡。 18 忽然海上起了狂風,波浪翻騰。 19 門徒搖櫓約行了五六公里,看見耶穌在海面上行走,漸漸靠近船,就害怕起來。 20 耶穌對他們說:“是我,不要怕。” 21 他們這才把他接上船,船就立刻到了他們要去的地方。

耶穌是生命的食物

22 第二天,站在海那邊的群眾,看見只有一隻小船留在那裡,並且知道耶穌沒有和他的門徒一同上船,門徒是自己去的; 23 不過有幾隻從提比里亞來的船停在那裡,靠近他們在主祝謝以後吃餅的地方。 24 群眾見耶穌和門徒都不在那裡,就上船往迦百農去找耶穌。 25 他們在對岸找到了耶穌,就問他:“拉比,你幾時到這裡來的?” 26 耶穌回答:“我實實在在告訴你們,你們找我,不是因為看見了神蹟,而是因為吃了餅又吃飽了。 27 不要為那必朽壞的食物操勞,卻要為那存到永生的食物操勞,就是人子所要賜給你們的,因為人子是父 神所印證的。” 28 眾人又問他:“我們應該作甚麼,才算是作 神的工作呢?” 29 耶穌回答:“信 神所差來的,就是作 神的工了。” 30 於是他們就說:“你要行甚麼神蹟,讓我們看了就信你呢?你到底能作甚麼呢? 31 我們的祖宗在曠野吃過嗎哪,正如經上所記:‘他把從天上來的食物賜給他們吃。’” 32 耶穌對他們說:“我實實在在告訴你們,不是摩西把那從天上來的食物賜給你們,而是我父把天上來的真食物賜給你們; 33 因為 神的食物就是從天上降下來,把生命賜給世人的那一位。”

34 他們對耶穌說:“主啊,求你常把這食物賜給我們。” 35 耶穌說:“我就是生命的食物,到我這裡來的,必定不餓;信我的,永遠不渴。 36 但我告訴你們,你們雖然見了我,還是不信。 37 凡是父賜給我的人,必到我這裡來;到我這裡來的,我決不丟棄他, 38 因為我從天上降下來,不是要行自己的意思,而是要行那差我來者的旨意。 39 那差我來者的旨意就是:他所賜給我的人,我連一個也不失落,並且在末日我要使他們復活。 40 因為我父的旨意,是要使所有看見了子而信的人有永生,並且在末日我要使他們復活。”

41 猶太人因為耶穌說“我是從天上降下來的食物”,就紛紛議論他。 42 他們說:“這不是約瑟的兒子耶穌嗎?他的父母我們不都認識嗎?他現在怎麼說‘我是從天上降下來的’呢?” 43 耶穌回答:“你們不要彼此議論。 44 如果不是差我來的父吸引人,就沒有人能到我這裡來;到我這裡來的,在末日我要使他復活。 45 先知書上記著:‘眾人都必受 神的教導。’凡聽見從父那裡來的教訓而又學習的,必到我這裡來。 46 這不是說有人見過父;只有從 神那裡來的那一位,他才見過父。 47 我實實在在告訴你們,信的人有永生。 48 我就是生命的食物, 49 你們的祖宗在曠野吃過嗎哪,還是死了。 50 這是從天上降下來的食物,使人吃了就不死。 51 我就是從天上降下來生命的食物,人若吃了這食物,就必活到永遠。我要賜的食物就是我的肉,是為了世人的生命而賜的。”

52 於是,猶太人彼此爭論,說:“這個人怎能把他的肉給我們吃呢?” 53 耶穌就對他們說:“我實實在在告訴你們,你們若不吃人子的肉,不喝人子的血,就沒有生命在你們裡面。 54 吃我肉、喝我血的,就有永生,在末日我要使他復活; 55 因為我的肉是真正的食物,我的血是真正的飲料。 56 吃我肉、喝我血的人,就住在我裡面,我也住在他裡面。 57 正如永活的父差遣了我,我也因父活著;照樣,吃我肉的人也必因我而活。 58 這就是從天上降下來的食物,不像嗎哪,你們的祖宗吃過,還是死了;吃這食物的,必活到永遠。” 59 這些話是耶穌在迦百農會堂裡教導人的時候說的。

永生之道

60 他的門徒中,有許多人聽了,就說:“這話很難,誰能接受呢?” 61 耶穌心裡知道門徒為了這事議論紛紛,就對他們說:“這話使你們動搖嗎? 62 如果你們看見人子升到他原來所在的地方,又怎樣呢? 63 使人活的是靈,肉體是無濟於事的。我對你們所說的話是靈、是生命。 64 然而你們中間卻有不信的人。”原來從起初耶穌就知道那些不信的是誰,那要把他出賣的又是誰。 65 耶穌跟著說:“所以我對你們說過,如果不是父所賜的,沒有人能到我這裡來。”

66 從此,他的門徒中有許多人退去了,不再與他同行。 67 於是耶穌對十二門徒說:“你們也想離去嗎?” 68 西門.彼得回答:“主啊,你有永生之道,我們還跟從誰呢? 69 我們已經相信,並且知道你是 神的聖者。” 70 耶穌說:“我不是揀選了你們十二個人嗎?但你們中間有一個是魔鬼。” 71 耶穌這話是指著加略人西門的兒子猶大說的,因為他雖然是十二門徒之一,卻要出賣耶穌。

Then Jesus crossed over the sea of Galilee. (Another name for this sea was Tiberias.)

Many people followed him because they saw the big works he had done in healing the sick people.

Jesus went up on a hill and sat down with his disciples.

The time for the Passover Feast of the Jews was near.

When Jesus looked up, he saw many people coming to him. He said to Philip, `Where shall we buy food for these people to eat?'

Jesus knew what he himself would do, but he said this to see what Philip would do.

Philip answered him, `It would take nearly a year's wages to buy enough food for them, even if each one gets only a little.'

One of Jesus' disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, talked to Jesus.

He said, `A boy here has five loaves of bread and two small fish. But what can that little bit of food do for so many people?'

10 Jesus said, `Tell the people to sit down.' Much grass was there. The number of men who sat down was about five thousand.

11 Then Jesus took the bread and thanked God for it. He gave it to the disciples and they divided it among those who were sitting. He did the same thing with the fish. The people had all they wanted.

12 When they had eaten enough, he said to his disciples, `Gather up all the pieces that are left so that nothing will be lost.'

13 They gathered all the pieces of the five loaves. Twelve baskets full were left over after all the people had eaten enough.

14 When those men saw the big work that Jesus did, they said, `Truly, this is the Prophet that is to come into the world.'

15 The people wanted to take Jesus by force to make him a king. When he saw this, he left again and went on the hill by himself.

16 In the evening his disciples went down to the lake [called the sea of Galilee].

17 They got in a boat and crossed over the sea toward the town of Capernaum. It was dark, but Jesus had not come back to them.

18 A strong wind was blowing. It made the water very rough.

19 They rowed the boat into the middle of the lake. Then they saw Jesus walking on the water. He came close to the boat. They were afraid.

20 But Jesus said to them, `It is I. Do not fear.'

21 Then they were glad to take him into the boat. Then at once the boat reached the land to which they were going.

22 The people who stayed back on the land had seen one boat only. They had seen the disciples get in it and go away without Jesus.

23 But there were some other boats from Tiberias. It was near the place where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had thanked God for it.

24 The next day the people saw that Jesus and his disciples were not there. Then they went to Capernaum in boats to look for Jesus.

25 When they found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said, `Teacher, when did you get here?'

26 Jesus said, `I tell you the truth. You do not want me because you saw the big works I did, but you want me because you ate all the bread you wanted.

27 Do not work for the food that spoils, but work for the food that will never spoil, the food that will give you life for ever. The Son of Man will give you that food. God my Father has chosen him to do that.'

28 They asked him, `What works does God ask us to do?'

29 Jesus answered them, `The work that God asks you to do is to believe in the one whom he has sent.'

30 They said, `What big work will you do? We want to see it and believe you. What work are you are going to do?

31-32 ur fathers ate bread in the wilderness. The holy writings say, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat." ' Jesus said to them, `I tell you the truth. It was not Moses who gave you that bread from heaven. But my Father gives you true bread from heaven.

33 He who comes down from heaven is the bread that God gives. He is the one who gives life to the world.'

34 They said to him, `Lord, give us this bread always!'

35 Jesus said, `I am the bread that gives life. Anyone who comes to me will never be hungry. Anyone who believes in me will never be thirsty.

36 But I said to you that you have seen me, and yet you will not believe in me.

37 All those whom my Father gives me, they will come to me. I will never turn anyone away who comes to me.

38 I did not come down from heaven to do what I myself want to do. I came to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

39 My Father sent me. He wants me to lose nothing that he has given me. And he wants me to raise it up on the last day.

40 My Father wants everyone who sees his Son and believes in him to live for ever. I will raise him up on the last day.'

41 The leaders of the Jews did not like Jesus to say, `I am the bread that has come down from heaven.'

42 They said, `Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus? We know his father and mother. How can he say, "I have come down from heaven"?'

43 Jesus answered them, `There is no need for you to talk against me to each other.

44 No one can come to me if my Father does not draw him. He sent me. I myself will raise up the one who comes to me. I will bring him back to life on the last day.

45 The prophets wrote, "God will teach all people." So then, every person who listens to his words and learns what he says, he will come to me.

46 `But no person has seen my Father. The only one who has seen him is the one who comes from God. He has seen my Father.

47 I tell you the truth. The person who believes in me will live for ever.

48 I am the bread that gives life.

49 Your fathers ate bread in the desert long ago, but they died.

50 Here is bread that comes down from heaven. The person who eats this bread will never die.

51 I am the bread that gives life. I came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live for ever. I will give bread so that the world may live. I am that bread.'

52 The leaders of the Jews began to quarrel with each other about what Jesus said. They said, `How can he give us himself to eat?'

53 Jesus said, `I tell you the truth. If you do not eat the Son of Man and do not drink his blood, you will not have life.

54 Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood will live for ever. I will raise him up at the last day.

55 I am real food, and my blood is real drink.

56 Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood is in me and I in him.

57 My Father is living. He sent me. I have my life from him. In the same way, the person who eats of me will live because of me.

58 This bread which came down from heaven is not like the bread that your fathers ate. They ate bread but they died. Anyone who eats this bread from heaven will live for ever.'

59 Jesus was in the meeting house in Capernaum when he was teaching people these things.

60 Many of his disciples heard it. They said, `This is a hard teaching. Who can listen to it?'

61 But Jesus knew that his disciples did not like what he said. He asked, `Is this hard for you?

62 What would you do if you saw the Son of Man go up to the place where he came from?

63 It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh does not help. The words I say to you are Spirit and life.

64 But even so, some of you do not believe me.' Jesus knew right from the beginning which ones of them would not believe. He knew who was going to give him over to people who hated him.

65 Then Jesus said, `That is why I said to you, "No one can come to me unless my Father lets him come." '

66 After that, many of the followers of Jesus left him and stopped travelling around with him.

67 Jesus said to the twelve disciples, `Will you also leave me?'

68 Simon Peter answered, `Lord, to whom shall we go? It is you who has told us how we may live for ever.

69 We believe now, and we know it is true. You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

70 Jesus said to them, `Did I not choose you twelve? And one of you is a devil!'

71 Jesus was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Judas was the one who was going to give him over to people who hated him. Judas was one of these twelve disciples.

After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,

There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,

17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.

18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.

19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.

21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;

23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)

24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.

25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.

37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.

44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

48 I am that bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.