John

耶稣给五千人吃饱

1这事以后，耶稣渡过加利利海，就是提比哩亚海。

2有许多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耶稣举目看见许多人来，就对腓力说：「我们从哪里买饼叫这些人吃呢？」（

6他说这话是要试验腓力；他自己原知道要怎样行。）

7腓力回答说：「就是二十两银子的饼，叫他们各人吃一点也是不够的。」

8有一个门徒，就是西门·彼得的兄弟安得烈，对耶稣说：

9「在这里有一个孩童，带着五个大麦饼、两条鱼，只是分给这许多人还算什么呢？」

10耶稣说：「你们叫众人坐下。」原来那地方的草多，众人就坐下，数目约有五千。

11耶稣拿起饼来，祝谢了，就分给那坐着的人；分鱼也是这样，都随着他们所要的。

12他们吃饱了，耶稣对门徒说：「把剩下的零碎收拾起来，免得有糟蹋的。」

13他们便将那五个大麦饼的零碎，就是众人吃了剩下的，收拾起来，装满了十二个篮子。

14众人看见耶稣所行的神迹，就说：「这真是那要到世间来的先知！」

15耶稣既知道众人要来强逼他作王，就独自又退到山上去了。

耶稣在海面上行走

16到了晚上，他的门徒下海边去，

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，海就翻腾起来。

19门徒摇橹，约行了十里多路，看见耶稣在海面上走，渐渐近了船，他们就害怕。

20耶稣对他们说：「是我，不要怕！」

21门徒就喜欢接他上船，船立时到了他们所要去的地方。

耶稣是生命的粮

22第二日，站在海那边的众人知道那里没有别的船，只有一只小船，又知道耶稣没有同他的门徒上船，乃是门徒自己去的。

23然而，有几只小船从提比哩亚来，靠近主祝谢后分饼给人吃的地方。

24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既在海那边找着了，就对他说：「拉比，是几时到这里来的？」

26耶稣回答说：「我实实在在地告诉你们，你们找我，并不是因见了神迹，乃是因吃饼得饱。

27不要为那必坏的食物劳力，要为那存到永生的食物劳力，就是人子要赐给你们的，因为人子是父 神所印证的。」

28众人问他说：「我们当行什么才算做 神的工呢？」

29耶稣回答说：「信 神所差来的，这就是做 神的工。」

30他们又说：「你行什么神迹，叫我们看见就信你；你到底做什么事呢？

31我们的祖宗在旷野吃过吗哪，如经上写着说：『他从天上赐下粮来给他们吃。』」

32耶稣说：「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，乃是我父将天上来的真粮赐给你们。

33因为 神的粮就是那从天上降下来、赐生命给世界的。」

34他们说：「主啊，常将这粮赐给我们！」

35耶稣说：「我就是生命的粮。到我这里来的，必定不饿；信我的，永远不渴。

36只是我对你们说过，你们已经看见我，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，不是要按自己的意思行，乃是要按那差我来者的意思行。

39差我来者的意思就是：他所赐给我的，叫我一个也不失落，在末日却叫他复活。

40因为我父的意思是叫一切见子而信的人得永生，并且在末日我要叫他复活。」

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？他的父母我们岂不认得吗？他如今怎么说『我是从天上降下来的』呢？」

43耶稣回答说：「你们不要大家议论。

44若不是差我来的父吸引人，就没有能到我这里来的；到我这里来的，在末日我要叫他复活。

45在先知书上写着说：『他们都要蒙 神的教训。』凡听见父之教训又学习的，就到我这里来。

46这不是说有人看见过父，惟独从 神来的，他看见过父。

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，叫人吃了就不死。

51我是从天上降下来生命的粮；人若吃这粮，就必永远活着。我所要赐的粮就是我的肉，为世人之生命所赐的。」

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，就没有生命在你们里面。

54吃我肉、喝我血的人就有永生，在末日我要叫他复活。

55我的肉真是可吃的，我的血真是可喝的。

56吃我肉、喝我血的人常在我里面，我也常在他里面。

57永活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活着；照样，吃我肉的人也要因我活着。

58这就是从天上降下来的粮。吃这粮的人就永远活着，不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪还是死了。」

59这些话是耶稣在迦百农会堂里教训人说的。

永生的话语

60他的门徒中有好些人听见了，就说：「这话甚难，谁能听呢？」

61耶稣心里知道门徒为这话议论，就对他们说：「这话是叫你们厌弃吗？

62倘或你们看见人子升到他原来所在之处，怎么样呢？

63叫人活着的乃是灵，肉体是无益的。我对你们所说的话就是灵，就是生命。

64只是你们中间有不信的人。」耶稣从起头就知道谁不信他，谁要卖他。

65耶稣又说：「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，他门徒中多有退去的，不再和他同行。

67耶稣就对那十二个门徒说：「你们也要去吗？」

68西门·彼得回答说：「主啊，你有永生之道，我们还归从谁呢？

69我们已经信了，又知道你是 神的圣者。」

70耶稣说：「我不是拣选了你们十二个门徒吗？但你们中间有一个是魔鬼。」

71耶稣这话是指着加略人西门的儿子犹大说的；他本是十二个门徒里的一个，后来要卖耶稣的。

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

1After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias).

2A large crowd followed Him because they saw the signs He was performing on the sick.

3Then Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down with His disciples.

4Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.

5When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”

6But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do.

7Philip answered, “Two hundred denariiwould not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”

8One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

9“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”

10“Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.

11Then Jesus took the loaves and the fish, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted.

12And when everyone was full, He said to His disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”

13So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

14When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed,they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

15Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

Jesus Walks on Water

16When evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

17got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet gone out to them.

18A strong wind was blowing, and the sea grew agitated.

19When they had rowed about three or four miles,they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the sea—and they were terrified.

20But Jesus spoke up: “It is I; do not be afraid.”

21Then they were willing to take Him into the boat, and at once the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

Jesus the Bread of Life

22The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with His disciples, but they had gone away alone.

23However, some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

24So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.

25When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they asked Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

26Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it is not because you saw these signs that you are looking for Me, but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.

27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”

28Then they inquired, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”

29Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

30So they asked Him, “What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do?

31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

32Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

33For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”

35Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

36But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.

37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

39And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

41At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”

43“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.

44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

46not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.

47Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

48I am the bread of life.

49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

52At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

54Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

55For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

57Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Many Disciples Turn Back

59Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

61Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?

62Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?

63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

64However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)

65Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

66From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

Peter’s Confession of Faith

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

68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

69We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”

70Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

71He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.