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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。

Feeding of the five thousand

After this Jesus went across the Galilee Sea (that is, the Tiberias Sea). A large crowd followed him, because they had seen the miraculous signs he had done among the sick. Jesus went up a mountain and sat there with his disciples. It was nearly time for Passover, the Jewish festival.

Jesus looked up and saw the large crowd coming toward him. He asked Philip, “Where will we buy food to feed these people?” Jesus said this to test him, for he already knew what he was going to do.

Philip replied, “More than a half year’s salary[a] worth of food wouldn’t be enough for each person to have even a little bit.”

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said, “A youth here has five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that for a crowd like this?”

10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass there. They sat down, about five thousand of them. 11 Then Jesus took the bread. When he had given thanks, he distributed it to those who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, each getting as much as they wanted. 12 When they had plenty to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the leftover pieces, so that nothing will be wasted.” 13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves that had been left over by those who had eaten.

14 When the people saw that he had done a miraculous sign, they said, “This is truly the prophet who is coming into the world.” 15 Jesus understood that they were about to come and force him to be their king, so he took refuge again, alone on a mountain.

Jesus walks on water

16 When evening came, Jesus’ disciples went down to the lake. 17 They got into a boat and were crossing the lake to Capernaum. It was already getting dark and Jesus hadn’t come to them yet. 18 The water was getting rough because a strong wind was blowing. 19 When the wind had driven them out for about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water. He was approaching the boat and they were afraid. 20 He said to them, “I Am.[b] Don’t be afraid.” 21 Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and just then the boat reached the land where they had been heading.

22 The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one boat had been there. They knew Jesus hadn’t gone with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone alone. 23 Some boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they had eaten the bread over which the Lord had given thanks. 24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

Bread of life

26 Jesus replied, “I assure you that you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate all the food you wanted. 27 Don’t work for the food that doesn’t last but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Human One[c] will give you. God the Father has confirmed him as his agent to give life.”

28 They asked, “What must we do in order to accomplish what God requires?”

29 Jesus replied, “This is what God requires, that you believe in him whom God sent.”

30 They asked, “What miraculous sign will you do, that we can see and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”[d]

32 Jesus told them, “I assure you, it wasn’t Moses who gave the bread from heaven to you, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 They said, “Sir,[e] give us this bread all the time!”

35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me and still don’t believe. 37 Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and I won’t send away anyone who comes to me. 38 I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 This is the will of the one who sent me, that I won’t lose anything he has given me, but I will raise it up at the last day. 40 This is my Father’s will: that all who see the Son and believe in him will have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

41 The Jewish opposition grumbled about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42 They asked, “Isn’t this Jesus, Joseph’s son, whose mother and father we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

43 Jesus responded, “Don’t grumble among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless they are drawn to me by the Father who sent me, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets, And they will all be taught by God.[f] Everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He has seen the Father. 47 I assure you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that whoever eats from it will never die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

52 Then the Jews debated among themselves, asking, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus said to them, “I assure you, unless you eat the flesh of the Human One[g] and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me lives because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. It isn’t like the bread your ancestors ate, and then they died. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.” 59 Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60 Many of his disciples who heard this said, “This message is harsh. Who can hear it?”

61 Jesus knew that the disciples were grumbling about this and he said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 What if you were to see the Human One[h] going up where he was before? 63 The Spirit is the one who gives life and the flesh doesn’t help at all. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 Yet some of you don’t believe.”Jesus knew from the beginning who wouldn’t believe and the one who would betray him. 65 He said, “For this reason I said to you that none can come to me unless the Father enables them to do so.” 66 At this, many of his disciples turned away and no longer accompanied him.

67 Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”

68 Simon Peter answered, “Lord, where would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We believe and know that you are God’s holy one.”

70 Jesus replied, “Didn’t I choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.” 71 He was speaking of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

Footnotes

  1. John 6:7 Or two hundred denaria
  2. John 6:20 Or It is I.
  3. John 6:27 Or Son of Man
  4. John 6:31 Ps 78:24
  5. John 6:34 Or Lord
  6. John 6:45 Isa 54:13
  7. John 6:53 Or Son of Man
  8. John 6:62 Or Son of Man

給五千人吃飽

這事以後,耶穌渡過加利利海,就是提比哩亞海。 有許多人因為看見他在病人身上所行的神蹟,就跟隨他。 耶穌上了山,和門徒一同坐在那裡。 那時猶太人的逾越節近了。 耶穌舉目看見許多人來,就對腓力說:「我們從哪裡買餅叫這些人吃呢?」 他說這話是要試驗腓力,他自己原知道要怎樣行。 腓力回答說:「就是二十兩銀子的餅,叫他們各人吃一點也是不夠的。」 有一個門徒,就是西門彼得的兄弟安得烈,對耶穌說: 「在這裡有一個孩童,帶著五個大麥餅、兩條魚,只是分給這許多人還算什麼呢?」 10 耶穌說:「你們叫眾人坐下。」原來那地方的草多。眾人就坐下,數目約有五千。 11 耶穌拿起餅來,祝謝了,就分給那坐著的人,分魚也是這樣,都隨著他們所要的。 12 他們吃飽了,耶穌對門徒說:「把剩下的零碎收拾起來,免得有糟蹋的。」 13 他們便將那五個大麥餅的零碎,就是眾人吃了剩下的,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:「這真是那要到世間來的先知!」

15 耶穌既知道眾人要來強逼他做王,就獨自又退到山上去了。

耶穌履海

16 到了晚上,他的門徒下海邊去, 17 上了船,要過海往迦百農去。天已經黑了,耶穌還沒有來到他們那裡。 18 忽然狂風大作,海就翻騰起來。 19 門徒搖櫓約行了十里多路,看見耶穌在海面上走,漸漸近了船,他們就害怕。 20 耶穌對他們說:「是我,不要怕!」 21 門徒就喜歡接他上船,船立時到了他們所要去的地方。

22 第二日,站在海那邊的眾人知道那裡沒有別的船,只有一隻小船,又知道耶穌沒有同他的門徒上船,乃是門徒自己去的。 23 然而有幾隻小船從提比哩亞來,靠近主祝謝後分餅給人吃的地方。

當為永生的食物勞力

24 眾人見耶穌和門徒都不在那裡,就上了船,往迦百農去找耶穌。 25 既在海那邊找著了,就對他說:「拉比,是幾時到這裡來的?」 26 耶穌回答說:「我實實在在地告訴你們:你們找我,並不是因見了神蹟,乃是因吃餅得飽。 27 不要為那必壞的食物勞力,要為那存到永生的食物勞力,就是人子要賜給你們的,因為人子是父神所印證的。」 28 眾人問他說:「我們當行什麼,才算做神的工呢?」 29 耶穌回答說:「信神所差來的,這就是做神的工。」 30 他們又說:「你行什麼神蹟,叫我們看見就信你?你到底做什麼事呢? 31 我們的祖宗在曠野吃過嗎哪,如經上寫著說:『他從天上賜下糧來給他們吃。』」 32 耶穌說:「我實實在在地告訴你們:那從天上來的糧不是摩西賜給你們的,乃是我父將天上來的真糧賜給你們。 33 因為神的糧就是那從天上降下來賜生命給世界的。」

耶穌為生命的糧

34 他們說:「主啊,常將這糧賜給我們!」 35 耶穌說:「我就是生命的糧。到我這裡來的,必定不餓;信我的,永遠不渴。 36 只是我對你們說過,你們已經看見我,還是不信。 37 凡父所賜給我的人,必到我這裡來;到我這裡來的,我總不丟棄他。 38 因為我從天上降下來,不是要按自己的意思行,乃是要按那差我來者的意思行。 39 差我來者的意思就是:他所賜給我的,叫我一個也不失落,在末日卻叫他復活。 40 因為我父的意思是叫一切見子而信的人得永生,並且在末日我要叫他復活。」

猶太人議論主

41 猶太人因為耶穌說「我是從天上降下來的糧」,就私下議論他, 42 說:「這不是約瑟的兒子耶穌嗎?他的父母我們豈不認得嗎?他如今怎麼說『我是從天上降下來的』呢?」 43 耶穌回答說:「你們不要大家議論。 44 若不是差我來的父吸引人,就沒有能到我這裡來的;到我這裡來的,在末日我要叫他復活。 45 在先知書上寫著說:『他們都要蒙神的教訓。』凡聽見父之教訓又學習的,就到我這裡來。 46 這不是說有人看見過父,唯獨從神來的,他看見過父。 47 我實實在在地告訴你們:信的人有永生。 48 我就是生命的糧。 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糧,叫人吃了就不死。 51 我是從天上降下來生命的糧,人若吃這糧,就必永遠活著。我所要賜的糧就是我的肉,為世人之生命所賜的。」

52 因此,猶太人彼此爭論說:「這個人怎能把他的肉給我們吃呢?」 53 耶穌說:「我實實在在地告訴你們: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、喝我血的人就有永生,在末日我要叫他復活。 55 我的肉真是可吃的,我的血真是可喝的。 56 吃我肉、喝我血的人常在我裡面,我也常在他裡面。 57 永活的父怎樣差我來,我又因父活著,照樣,吃我肉的人也要因我活著。 58 這就是從天上降下來的糧。吃這糧的人就永遠活著,不像你們的祖宗吃過嗎哪還是死了。」 59 這些話是耶穌在迦百農會堂裡教訓人說的。

主的話是靈是生命

60 他的門徒中有好些人聽見了,就說:「這話甚難,誰能聽呢?」 61 耶穌心裡知道門徒為這話議論,就對他們說:「這話是叫你們厭棄[a]嗎? 62 倘或你們看見人子升到他原來所在之處,怎麼樣呢? 63 叫人活著的乃是靈,肉體是無益的。我對你們所說的話就是靈,就是生命。 64 只是你們中間有不信的人。」耶穌從起頭就知道誰不信他,誰要賣他。 65 耶穌又說:「所以我對你們說過,若不是蒙我父的恩賜,沒有人能到我這裡來。」

彼得認耶穌為神的聖者

66 從此,他門徒中多有退去的,不再和他同行。 67 耶穌就對那十二個門徒說:「你們也要去嗎?」 68 西門彼得回答說:「主啊,你有永生之道,我們還歸從誰呢? 69 我們已經信了,又知道你是神的聖者。」 70 耶穌說:「我不是揀選了你們十二個門徒嗎?但你們中間有一個是魔鬼。」 71 耶穌這話是指著加略西門的兒子猶大說的,他本是十二個門徒裡的一個,後來要賣耶穌的。

Footnotes

  1. 約翰福音 6:61 「厭棄」原文作「跌倒」。