耶稣的弟弟们不信

这些事以后,耶稣走遍加利利。原来他不愿意在犹太地区往来,因为那些犹太人想要杀害他。 犹太人的住棚节快到了, 耶稣的弟弟们对他说:“你离开这里到犹太去吧,好让你的门徒们也能看到你所做的事。 因为人不会又想要出名,又在隐秘中做事。你既然要做这些事,就把自己显明给世人看吧!” 原来连他的弟弟们也不信他。

耶稣对他们说:“我的时候还没有来到,而你们的时候随时都方便。 世界不能恨你们,却是恨我,因为我见证世界的行为是邪恶的。 你们上去过节吧,我现在不[a]上去,因为我的时候还没有到。” 说了这些话,耶稣仍然留在加利利地区。

耶稣在住棚节

10 不过当他的弟弟们上去过节以后,他也上去了,但没有公开,像是悄悄去的。 11 节日期间,那些犹太人搜寻耶稣,说:“那个人在哪里?” 12 人群中有许多人对他议论纷纷;有的说:“他是好人。”也有的说:“不,他是迷惑民众的。” 13 只是没有人公开地讲论他的事,因为怕那些犹太人。

14 可是住棚节已经过了一半,耶稣上圣殿去,开始教导人。 15 那些犹太人感到惊奇,说:“这个人没学过,怎么懂得经文呢?”

16 耶稣回答他们,说:“我的教导不是我自己的,而是那派我来者的。 17 人如果愿意遵行神的旨意,就会明白这教导究竟是从神而来的,还是我凭自己而讲的。 18 凭自己讲话的人,是寻求自己的荣耀;但是,寻求那派他来者之荣耀的,他才是真实的,在他里面没有不义。 19 摩西不是把律法传给你们了吗?你们当中却没有一个人遵行这律法。你们为什么想要杀我呢?”

20 众人回答:“你有鬼魔附身!谁想要杀你?”

21 耶稣对他们说:“我做了一件事,你们都感到惊奇。 22 摩西把割礼传给你们,你们就在安息日给人施行割礼——其实割礼不是从摩西开始的,而是从祖先开始的。 23 既然人在安息日受割礼,是为了不违犯摩西的律法;那么,因为我在安息日使一个人完全康复,你们就对我生气吗? 24 不要按着外表做判断,而要按着公义做判断。”

基督的身份

25 有些耶路撒冷的人说:“这不是他们想要杀的那个人吗? 26 看,他还在公开讲话,他们也没有对他说什么。难道首领们真的认为这个人就是[b]基督吗? 27 可是,基督出现的时候,没有人会知道他从哪里来;而这个人,我们却很清楚他是从哪里来的。”

28 耶稣在圣殿里教导人,呼喊说:“你们认识我,也知道我是从哪里来的。其实我不是凭自己而来的;派我来的那一位是真实的,你们却不认识他; 29 而我认识他,因为我是从他而来,也是他差派了我。”

30 因此他们想要抓耶稣,只是没有人下手,因为他的时候还没有到。 31 但是人群中有许多人信了耶稣,他们说:“基督来的时候,难道会比这个人行更多的神迹吗?”

32 法利赛人听到了众人私下议论耶稣的这些事。于是祭司长们和法利赛人就派差役们去抓他。

33 耶稣说:“我与你们在一起的时候不多了,我要回到派我来的那一位面前。 34 你们将要寻找我,却找不到;我所在的地方,你们不能去。”

35 那些犹太人彼此问:“这个人要到哪里去,让我们找不到他呢?难道他要往散居在希腊人中的犹太侨民那里,去教导希腊人吗? 36 他所说的‘你们将要寻找我,却找不到;我所在的地方,你们不能去’,这话是什么意思呢?”

有关圣灵的应许

37 节期的最后一天,也是最盛大的日子,耶稣站起来呼喊说:“如果有人渴了,就到我这里[c]来喝吧! 38 信我的人,就如经上所说的,从他的腹中将要涌流出活水的江河。” 39 耶稣这话是指着信他的人所要领受的圣灵而说的。当时,圣灵[d]还没有临到[e],因为耶稣还没有得荣耀。

群众因耶稣而分歧

40 众人听了这话,有些[f]人说:“这个人确实是那位先知!” 41 另有的说:“这个人就是基督。”还有的却说:“难道基督会出自加利利吗? 42 经上不是说,基督是大卫的后裔,是出自大卫的故乡伯利恒吗?” 43 于是众人因耶稣就产生了分裂; 44 其中有些人想要抓他,可是没有人下手。

官员因耶稣而争辩

45 差役们回到祭司长们和法利赛人那里。那些人问:“为什么没有把他带来?”

46 差役们回答:“从来没有人像这个人[g]那样讲话!”

47 法利赛人说:“难道你们也被迷惑了吗? 48 难道首领或法利赛人中有信他的吗? 49 这不懂律法的民众是被诅咒的!”

50 他们当中有一个人,就是原先[h]来到耶稣那里的尼克迪莫,对他们说: 51 “如果不先听本人的口供,并且了解他做了什么,我们的律法就定不了他的罪,难道不是吗?”

52 他们回答说:“你也不会是加利利人吧?你去查一查看,先知是不会从加利利兴起的!”

53 然后他们每个人都回家去了。

Footnotes

  1. 约翰福音 7:8 现在不——有古抄本作“不”。
  2. 约翰福音 7:26 就是——有古抄本作“真是”。
  3. 约翰福音 7:37 有古抄本没有“到我这里”。
  4. 约翰福音 7:39 有古抄本没有“圣”。
  5. 约翰福音 7:39 临到——有古抄本作“赐下来”。
  6. 约翰福音 7:40 有些——有古抄本作“许多”。
  7. 约翰福音 7:46 有古抄本没有“像这个人”。
  8. 约翰福音 7:50 原先——有古抄本作“夜里”。

And after these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach itinerated in the Galil, for he was not wanting to move about in Yehudah, because those of Yehudah were seeking to kill him.

Now the Chag of Sukkot was near. [VAYIKRA 23:34; DEVARIM 16:16]

His achim then said to him, Leave here and go away into the land of Yehudah, that also your talmidim will see your ma’asim which you do.

For no one who seeks public notice does anything besod (secretly). If these things you do, then manifest yourself to HaOlam.

For not even the achim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach were believing in him. [TEHILLIM 69:8]

Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, My sha’ah has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The Olam Hazeh is not capable of sin’ah (hatred) toward you, but the Olam Hazeh hates me, and for this reason: I give solemn edut (testimony) about it because the ma’asim of the Olam Hazeh are ra’'im (evil).

You make aliyah leregel up to the Chag (Feast). I am not going up to this Chag (Feast), because my time has not yet been fulfilled.

And having said these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach remained in the Galil.

10 But when the achim of him made aliyah leregel to the Chag (Feast), then also Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up [Yochanan 5:30] not publicly but besod (secretly).

11 Then those of Yehudah were seeking Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in the Chag (Feast) and were saying, Where is that man?

12 And there was much telunnah (murmuring) about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach among the multitudes. Some were saying, He is tov (good), but others were saying, Lo (no), he deceives the multitude.

13 No one, however, was speaking openly about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach because of the fear of those of Yehudah.

14 But around the middle period of the Chag (Feast), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to the Beis Hamikdash and was saying shiurim (teaching torah).

15 Therefore, those of Yehudah were marveling, saying, How has this man binah (understanding) of a Yeshiva yode’a sefer (scholar), not having learned?

16 Therefore, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, My Torah (teaching) is not mine but of the One having sent me.

17 If anyone wants to do the ratzon Hashem, he will have da’as about my Torah, whether it is of Hashem or I speak only from myself. [TEHILLIM 25:14; 92:16; BAMIDBAR 16:28]

18 The one speaking from himself seeks his own kavod (glory), but he who is seeking the kavod of the One having sent him, this one is ne’eman and there is no avlah (injustice) in him.

19 Has not Moshe given you the Torah? None of you is able to be shomer chukkat Torah. Why are you seeking to kill me? [DEVARIM 32:46; MISHLE 20:9; KOHELET 7:20; YESHAYAH 53:6]

20 The multitude said, You have a shed (demon). Who is seeking to kill you?

21 In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Of the Pe’ulot of Hashem, I accomplished echad, one pe’ulah, and everyone marvels.

22 Moshe has given you bris milah not that bris milah is of Moshe, but it is of the Avot, and on a Shabbos you perpetually perform bris milah. [BERESHIS 17:10-14; 21:4; VAYIKRA 12:3]

23 If a man receives bris milah on Shabbos and lo tufar Torat Moshe (the Torah of Moses may not be broken, BERESHIS 17:14) are you angry with me because I gave a man refu’ah shleimah on Shabbos?

24 Do not judge according to appearance but judge with mishpat tzedek. [ZECHARYAH 7:9; SHMUEL ALEF 16:7; YESHAYAH 11:3 4; VAYIKRA 19:15]

25 Therefore, some of the ones of Yerushalayim were saying, Is it not this man whom they are seeking to kill?

26 And, hinei, he speaks publicly and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the manhigim (the gedolim of Judaism) have da’as that this man is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach?

27 But this man, we have da’as where he is from; but the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, whenever he comes, no one has da’as where he is from.

28 Therefore, in the Beis Hamikdash while teaching, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out, saying, You have da’as of me, and you have da’as of where I am from. I have not come on my own, but the One Who sent me is ne’eman. He is the One of Whom you do not have da’as.

29 I have da’as of Him, because from Him Ani Hu, and He is the One Who sent me.

30 Therefore, they were seeking to arrest him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his sha’ah (hour, time) had not yet come.

31 From the multitude, however, many put their emunah, their bitachon, in him, and were saying, The Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, whenever he comes, surely he will not do more otot (miraculous signs) than the things which this man did?

32 The Perushim heard the telunnah (murmuring) of these things from the multitude, the talk about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and they sent the Rashei Hakohanim and the mesharetim of the Perushim that they might arrest him.

33 Therefore, he said, Yet a little time I am with you and I go away to the One having sent me.

34 You will seek me and not find me and where Ani Hu you are not able to come.

35 Therefore, those of Yehudah said to themselves, Where is this man about to journey that we will not find him? Surely he is not about to sojourn to the Golus of the Yevanim (Greeks) to teach the Yevanim? [MISHLE 1:28]

36 What is this dvar which he said, You will seek me and will not find me and where Ani Hu, you are not able to come?

37 Now on the last day of the Chag, Hoshana Rabbah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink. [Lv 23:36; Isa 55:1; 12:3; 49:10]

38 The one with emunah in me, as the Kitvei Hakodesh said, ‘Out of the midst of him, rivers of MAYIM CHAYYIM [Zech 14:8] will flow.’ [Prov 18:4; Isa 44:3; 58:11; 43:19f, Ezek 47:1-12; Joel 4:18; Song 4:15].

39 But this he said about the Ruach Hakodesh which the ones having emunah (faith) in him were about to receive, for the Ruach Hakodesh had not yet been given, because he had not yet received kavod. [YOEL 2:28 (3:1)]

40 Some of the multitude, therefore, having heard these dvarim were saying, This man is beemes the Navi.

41 Others were saying, This man is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. But some were saying, Surely the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes not from the Galil, does he?

42 Has not the Kitvei Hakodesh said that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is from the zera Dovid and from Beit-Lechem, the shtetl where Dovid lived? [2Sm 7:12; Psa 89:3-4; Mic 5:1(2); Jer 23:5]

43 A machloket (controversy), therefore, occurred among the multitude because of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

44 And some of them were wanting to arrest him, but no one laid his hands on him.

45 Then the avadim of the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim came and the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim said to them, Why did you not bring him?

46 In reply, the avadim said, Never Ish spoke like this Ish.

47 In reply, therefore, the Perushim said, Surely not you also have been deceived?

48 Has any of the manhigim put their emunah (faith) in him, or any of the Perushim [T.N.but cf Yn 7:50; 19:39]?

49 But this am ha’aretz crowd has no da’as of Torah and is cursed. [DEVARIM 27:26]

50 Rav Nakdimon, the one having come to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach earlier, being one of their own, says to them,

51 Surely Torateinu (Our Torah) judges not the Man unless it hears first from the Man himself and has da’as of what he does, does it? [Dt 1:16; 17:6; Ex 23:1]

52 They answered and said to Rav Nakdimon, Surely not you also are from the Galil, are you? Search [the Kitvei Hakodesh] and see that from the Galil a Navi does not arise. [T.N. but cf 2Kgs 14:25; Isa 9:1,2]

53 And they went each one to his bais.