约翰福音 6

耶稣使五千人吃饱

（太14．13－21；可6．30－44；路9．10－17）

1 这些事以后，耶稣渡过加利利海，就是提比哩亚海。 2 有一大群人因为看见他在病人身上所行的神迹，就跟随他。 3 耶稣上了山，和门徒一同坐在那里。 4 那时犹太人的逾越节近了。 5 耶稣举目看见一大群人来，就对腓力说：“我们到哪里去买饼给这些人吃呢？” 6 他说这话是要考验腓力，他自己原知道要怎样做。 7 腓力回答他：“就是两百个银币的饼也不够给他们每人吃一点点。” 8 有一个门徒，就是西门．彼得的弟弟安得烈，对耶稣说： 9 “这里有一个孩子，带着五个大麦饼和两条鱼，但是分给这么多人还算什么呢？” 10 耶稣说：“你们叫大家坐下。”那地方的草多，人们就坐下，男人的数目约有五千。 11 耶稣拿起饼来，祝谢了，就分给坐着的人，也同样分了鱼，都照他们所要的来分。 12 他们吃饱后，耶稣对门徒说：“把剩下的碎屑收拾起来，免得糟蹋了。” 13 他们就把那五个大麦饼的碎屑，就是大家吃剩的，收拾起来，装满了十二个篮子。 14 人们看见耶稣所行的神迹，就说：“这真是那要到世上来的先知！” 15 耶稣知道他们要来强迫他作王，就独自又退到山上去了。

耶稣在海上行走

（太14．22－33；可6．45－52）

16 到了晚上，他的门徒下到海边， 17 上了船，要过海往迦百农去。天已经黑了，耶稣还没有来到他们那里。 18 忽然狂风大作，海浪翻腾。 19 门徒摇橹，约行了十里多t，看见耶稣在海面上走，渐渐靠近了船，他们就害怕。 20 耶稣对他们说：“是我，不要怕！” 21 门徒就欣然接他上船，船立刻到了他们所要去的地方。

耶稣是生命的粮

22 第二天，留在海的对岸的众人发觉那里原来只有一条小船，而且耶稣没有同他的门徒上船，是门徒自己去的。 23 另外有几条从提比哩亚来的小船，却停靠在主祝谢后给他们吃饼的地方附近。 24 这时众人见耶稣和门徒都不在那里，就上了船，往迦百农去找耶稣。

25 他们在海的对岸找到他后，对他说：“拉比，你几时到这里来的？” 26 耶稣回答他们说：“我实实在在地告诉你们，你们找我，并不是因见了神迹，而是因吃饼吃饱了。 27 不要为那会坏的食物操劳，而要为那存到永生的食物操劳。这食物是人子要赐给你们的，因为父上帝已印证了。” 28 于是他们问他：“我们该做什么才算是做上帝的工作呢？” 29 耶稣回答，对他们说：“信上帝所差来的，这就是上帝的工作。” 30 于是他们对他说：“你行什么神迹，好让我们看见而信你呢？你到底要做什么呢？ 31 我们的祖宗在旷野吃过吗哪，如经上写着：‘他从天上赐下粮食来给他们吃。’” 32 于是耶稣对他们说：“我实实在在地告诉你们，那从天上来的粮不是摩西赐给你们的，那从天上来的真粮是我父赐给你们的。 33 因为上帝的粮就是那位从天上降下来，并且赐生命给世界的。”

34 于是他们对他说：“主啊，请常常把这粮赐给我们！” 35 耶稣对他们说：“我就是生命的粮。到我这里来的，绝不饥饿；信我的，永不干渴。 36 可是，我告诉过你们，你们已经看见我t，还是不信。 37 凡父所赐给我的人，必到我这里来；到我这里来的，我总不丢弃他。 38 因为我从天上降下来，不是要按自己的意愿行，而是要遵行差我来那位的旨意。 39 差我来那位的旨意就是：他所赐给我的，要我一个也不失落，并且在末日使他复活。 40 因为我父的旨意是要使每一个见了子而信的人得永生，并且在末日我要使他复活。”

41  犹太人因为耶稣说“我是从天上降下来的粮”，就私下议论他， 42 说：“这不是约瑟的儿子耶稣吗？我们岂不认得他的父母吗？现在他怎么说‘我是从天上降下来的’呢？” 43 耶稣回答，对他们说：“你们不要彼此私下议论。 44 若不是差我来的父吸引人，就没有人能到我这里来；到我这里来的，在末日我要使他复活。 45 在先知书上写着：‘他们都要蒙上帝教导。’凡听了父的教导而学习的，都到我这里来。 46 这不是说有人看见过父，惟独从上帝来的，他才看见过父。 47 我实实在在地告诉你们，信的人有永生。 48 我就是生命的粮。 49 你们的祖宗在旷野吃过吗哪，还是死了。 50 这是从天上降下来的粮，使人吃了就不死。 51 我就是从天上降下来生命的粮；人若吃这粮，必永远活着。我为世人的生命所赐下的粮就是我的肉。”

52 因此，犹太人彼此争论说：“这个人怎能把他的肉给我们吃呢？” 53 耶稣对他们说：“我实实在在地告诉你们，你们若不吃人子的肉，不喝人子的血，在你们里面就没有生命。 54 吃我肉、喝我血的人就有永生，并且在末日我要使他复活。 55 我的肉是真正可吃的；我的血是真正可喝的。 56 吃我肉、喝我血的人常在我里面，我也常在他里面。 57 永生的父怎样差我来，我又怎样因父活着，照样，吃我肉的人也要因我活着。 58 这是从天上降下来的粮，不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪还是死了；吃这粮的人将永远活着。” 59 这些话是耶稣在迦百农会堂里教导人的时候说的。

永生的话

60 他的门徒中有好些人听见了，就说：“这话很难，谁听得进呢？” 61 耶稣心里知道门徒为这话私下议论，就对他们说：“这话成了你们的绊脚石吗？ 62 如果你们看见人子升到他原来所在之处，会怎么样呢？ 63 圣灵赐人生命，肉体毫无用处。我对你们所说的话就是灵，就是生命。 64 可是你们中间有些人不信。”耶稣起初就知道哪些人不信他，哪一个要出卖他。 65 于是耶稣说：“所以，我对你们说过，若不是蒙我父的恩赐，没有人能到我这里来。”

66 从此，他门徒中有很多退却了，不再和他同行。 67 耶稣就对那十二使徒说：“你们也要离开吗？” 68 西门．彼得回答他：“主啊，你有永生之道，我们还跟从谁呢？ 69 我们已经信了，又知道你是上帝的圣者。” 70 耶稣回答他们：“我不是拣选了你们十二个吗？但你们中间有一个是魔鬼。” 71 耶稣这话是指着要出卖他的加略人西门的儿子犹大说的；他本是十二使徒里的一个。

JOHN 6

Feeding Five Thousand

(Matthew 14.13-21; Mark 6.30-44; Luke 9.10-17)

1 Jesus crossed Lake Galilee, which was also known as Lake Tiberias. 2 A large crowd had seen him work miracles to heal the sick, and those people went with him.

3-4 It was almost time for the Jewish festival of Passover, and Jesus went up on a mountain with his disciples and sat down.t
5 When Jesus saw the large crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we get enough food to feed all these people?”

6 He said this to test Philip, since he already knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip answered, “Don't you know that it would take almost a year's wagest just to buy only a little bread for each of these people?”
8 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the disciples. He spoke up and said,

9 “There is a boy here who has five small loavest of barley bread and two fish. But what good is that with all these people?”
10 The ground was covered with grass, and Jesus told his disciples to tell everyone to sit down. About 5,000 men were in the crowd.

11 Jesus took the bread in his hands and gave thanks to God. Then he passed the bread to the people, and he did the same with the fish, until everyone had plenty to eat.
12 The people ate all they wanted, and Jesus told his disciples to gather up the leftovers, so that nothing would be wasted.

13 The disciples gathered them up and filled twelve large baskets with what was left over from the five barley loaves.
14 After the people had seen Jesus work this miracle, t they began saying, “This must be the Prophett who is to come into the world!”

15 Jesus realized that they would try to force him to be their king. So he went up on a mountain, where he could be alone.

Jesus Walks on the Water

(Matthew 14.22-27; Mark 6.45-52)

16 That evening, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake. 17 They got into a boat and started across for Capernaum. Later that evening Jesus had still not come to them,

18 and a strong wind was making the water rough.
19 When the disciples had rowed for five or six kilometers , they saw Jesus walking on the water. He kept coming closer to the boat, and they were terrified. 20 But he said, “I am Jesus!t Don't be afraid!”

21 The disciples wanted to take him into the boat, but suddenly the boat reached the shore where they were headed.

The Bread That Gives Life

22 The people who had stayed on the east side of the lake knew that only one boat had been there. They also knew that Jesus had not left in it with his disciples. But the next day 23 some boats from Tiberias sailed near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread for which the Lord had given thanks. 24 They saw that Jesus and his disciples had left. Then they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

25 They found him on the west side of the lake and asked, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “I tell you for certain that you are not looking for me because you saw the miracles, t but because you ate all the food you wanted.

27 t Don't work for food that spoils. Work for food that gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because God the Father has given him the right to do so.”

28 “What exactly does God want us to do?” the people asked.

29 Jesus answered, “God wants you to have faith in the one he sent.”
30 They replied, “What miracle will you work, so that we can have faith in you? What will you do?

31 t For example, when our ancestors were in the desert, they were given mannat to eat. It happened just as the Scriptures say, ‘God gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
32 Jesus then told them, “I tell you for certain that Moses wasn't the one who gave you bread from heaven. My Father is the one who gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 And the bread that God gives is the one who came down from heaven to give life to the world.”

34 The people said, “Sir, give us this bread and don't ever stop!”

35 Jesus replied:
I am the bread that gives life! No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who has faith in me will ever be thirsty. 36 I have told you already that you have seen me and still do not have faith in me.

37 Everything and everyone that the Father has given me will come to me, and I won't turn any of them away.
38 I didn't come from heaven to do what I want! I came to do what the Father wants me to do. He sent me, 39 and he wants to make certain that none of the ones he has given me will be lost. Instead, he wants me to raise them to life on the last day.t

40 My Father wants everyone who sees the Son to have faith in him and to have eternal life. Then I will raise them to life on the last day.
41 The people started grumbling because Jesus had said he was the bread that had come down from heaven.

42 They were asking each other, “Isn't he Jesus, the son of Joseph? Don't we know his father and mother? How can he say that he has come down from heaven?”

43 Jesus told them:
Stop grumbling! 44 No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me makes them want to come. But if they do come, I will raise them to life on the last day.

45 t One of the prophets wrote, “God will teach all of them.” And so everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.
46 The only one who has seen the Father is the one who has come from him. No one else has ever seen the Father.

47 I tell you for certain that everyone who has faith in me has eternal life.
48 I am the bread that gives life! 49 Your ancestors ate mannat in the desert, and later they died. 50 But the bread from heaven has come down, so that no one who eats it will ever die.

51 I am that bread from heaven! Everyone who eats it will live forever. My flesh is the life-giving bread I give to the people of this world.

52 They started arguing with each other and asked, “How can he give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus answered:
I tell you for certain that you won't live unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man. 54 But if you do eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will have eternal life, and I will raise you to life on the last day. 55 My flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink.

56 If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you are one with me, and I am one with you.
57 The living Father sent me, and I have life because of him. Now everyone who eats my flesh will live because of me.

58 The bread that comes down from heaven isn't like what your ancestors ate. They died, but whoever eats this bread will live forever.

59 Jesus was teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum when he said these things.

The Words of Eternal Life

60 Many of Jesus' disciples heard him and said, “This is too hard for anyone to understand.”
61 Jesus knew that his disciples were grumbling. So he asked, “Does this bother you? 62 What if you should see the Son of Man go up to heaven where he came from? 63 t The Spirit is the one who gives life! Human strength can do nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are from that life-giving Spirit.

64 But some of you refuse to have faith in me.” Jesus said this, because from the beginning he knew who would have faith in him. He also knew which one would betray him.

65 Then Jesus said, “You cannot come to me, unless the Father makes you want to come. That is why I have told these things to all of you.”
66 Because of what Jesus said, many of his disciples turned their backs on him and stopped following him. 67 Jesus then asked his twelve disciples if they also were going to leave him. 68 t Simon Peter answered, “Lord, there is no one else that we can go to! Your words give eternal life.

69 We have faith in you, and we are sure that you are God's Holy One.”
70 Jesus told his disciples, “I chose all twelve of you, but one of you is a demon!” 71 Jesus was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.t He would later betray Jesus, even though he was one of the twelve disciples.