变水为酒

第三天,在加利利迦拿有一个婚宴。耶稣的母亲在那里, 耶稣和他的门徒们也被邀请赴宴。 酒用尽了,耶稣的母亲对他说:“他们没有酒了。”

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。”

他的母亲对仆人们说:“他吩咐你们什么,你们就做什么。”

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。

耶稣对仆人们说:“把这些缸装满水。”他们就装满了,直到缸沿。 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。

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。

Footnotes

  1. 约翰福音 2:4 母亲——原文直译“妇人”。
  2. 约翰福音 2:6 两三桶——原文为“2-3梅翠提斯”;或译作“约一百公升”。1梅翠提斯=39公升。
  3. 约翰福音 2:17 《诗篇》69:9。
  4. 约翰福音 2:18 权柄的——辅助词语。

On Yom HaShelishi, there was a Chasunoh (Wedding Feast) in Kanah in the Galil; and the Em (Mother) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was there.

He and his talmidim were also invited to the Chasunoh (Wedding Feast).

And when yayin (wine) was lacking, the Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, They do not have yayin.

And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to her, Mah lanu valach, Isha? [BERESHIS 3:15] My sha’ah (hour, time) has not yet come. [Mt 26:18, 27-28]

The Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to the mesharetim, Asher yomar lakhem ta’asu (Do whatever he tells you). [BERESHIS 41:55]

Now there were shesh (six) stone water jars lying there. These were for the Jewish tohorot, each holding twenty to thirty gallons.

Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Fill with mayim. And they filled them up to the top.

And he says to them, Draw now and bring to the Rosh HaMesibba (Head of the Reception, Feast). And they brought it.

And when the Rosh HaMesibba tasted the mayim having become yayin, and when he did not have da’as of where it came from‖but the mesharetim had da’as, the ones having drawn the water‖the Rosh HaMesibba summoned the Choson (Bridegroom).

10 And the Rosh HaMesibba says to him, Everyone sets out the yayin hatov first, and when they have become drunk, he sets out the inferior; you have kept the yayin hatov until now.

11 This was the reshit (beginning) of the otot (miraculous signs) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach accomplished in Kana of the Galil, and he manifested the kavod (glory) of him, v’ya’aminu bo (and they put their faith in him) [SHEMOT 14:31].

12 After this he went down to K’far-Nachum and the Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the achim and his talmidim also, and there they remained not many yamim (days).

13 And Pesach was fast approaching, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to Yerushalayim [DEVARIM 16:1-6].

14 And he found in the Beis Hamikdash the ones selling oxen and sheep and doves [VAYIKRA 1:14; DEVARIM 14:26] and the coin-dealers sitting [DEVARIM 14:25].

15 And having made a shot (whip) out of ropes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach drove all of them out of the Beis Hamikdash, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the machalifei hakesafim (money-changers) and overturned their tishen (tables).

16 And to the ones selling doves, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Take these things from here. Do not make the Bais Avi a bais hasokharim (house of merchants). [ZECHARYAH 14:21]

17 The talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach remembered that it had been written, KINAT BETECHA AKHALATNI (The zeal for Your bais will devour me [TEHILLIM 69:9].

18 In reply, those of Yehudah then said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, What ot (miraculous sign) do you show us for these things you do?

19 In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Bring churban to this heikhal and in shloshah yamim [YONAH 1:17; HOSHEA 6:2] I will raise it.

20 Those of Yehudah then said, In forty and six years this Heikhal was built and you in shloshah yamim will raise it?

21 But that one was speaking about the heikhal of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach’s basar. [Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:10-11]

22 Therefore, when he underwent the Techiyas HaMoshiach (Resurrection of the Moshiach), his talmidim remembered that this he was saying and v’ya’aminu (and they put their faith SHEMOT 14:31) in the Kitvei Hakodesh [TEHILLIM 16:9-10] and the dvar which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said.

23 And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in Yerushalayim during Pesach at the Chag (Feast), many from Yehudah had emunah (faith) in ha-Shem of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, seeing his otot (miraculous signs) which he was doing.

24 But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was not entrusting himself to them, because he had da’as of kol Bnei Adam.

25 And he had no need that anyone should give solemn edut (testimony) about them [YESHAYAH 11:3], for he knew what was in Bnei Adam [Dt 31:21; 1Kg 8:39].