📖 约翰福音第15章（简体中文和合本）
1 我是真葡萄树，我父是栽培的人。
2 凡属我不结果子的枝子，他就剪去；凡结果子的，他就修理干净，使枝子结果子更多。
3 现在你们因我讲给你们的道，已经干净了。
4 你们要常在我里面，我也常在你们里面。枝子若不常在葡萄树上，自己就不能结果子；你们若不常在我里面，也是这样。
5 我是葡萄树，你们是枝子。常在我里面的，我也常在他里面，这人就多结果子；因为离了我，你们就不能做什么。
6 人若不常在我里面，就像枝子丢在外面枯干，人拾起来，扔在火里烧了。
7 你们若常在我里面，我的话也常在你们里面，凡你们所愿意的，祈求就给你们成就。
8 你们多结果子，我父就因此得荣耀，你们也就是我的门徒了。
9 我爱你们，正如父爱我一样；你们要常在我的爱里。
10 你们若遵守我的命令，就常在我的爱里，正如我遵守了我父的命令，常在他的爱里。
11 这些事我已经对你们说了，是要叫我的喜乐存在你们心里，并叫你们的喜乐可以满足。
12 你们要彼此相爱，像我爱你们一样，这就是我的命令。
13 人为朋友舍命，人的爱心没有比这个大的。
14 你们若遵行我所吩咐的，就是我的朋友了。
15 以后我不再称你们为仆人，因仆人不知道主人所做的事。我乃称你们为朋友，因我从我父所听见的一切都已经告诉你们了。
16 不是你们拣选了我，是我拣选了你们，并且分派你们去结果子，叫你们的果子常存，使你们奉我的名无论向父求什么，他就赐给你们。
17 我这样吩咐你们，是要叫你们彼此相爱。
18 世人若恨你们，你们知道，恨你们以先，已经恨我了。
19 你们若属世界，世界必爱属自己的；只因你们不属世界，乃是我从世界中拣选了你们，所以世界就恨你们。
20 你们要记念我从前对你们所说的话：仆人不能大于主人。他们若逼迫了我，也要逼迫你们；若遵守了我的话，也要遵守你们的话。
21 但他们因我的名，要向你们行这一切的事，因为他们不认识那差我来的。
22 我若没有来教训他们，他们就没有罪；但如今他们的罪无可推诿了。
23 恨我的，也恨我的父。
24 我若没有在他们中间行过别人未曾行的事，他们就没有罪；但如今连我与我的父，他们也看见也恨恶了。
25 这要应验他们律法上所写的话，说：‘他们无故地恨我。’
26 但我要从父那里差保惠师来，就是从父出来真理的圣灵，他来了，就要为我作见证。
27 你们也要作见证，因为你们从起头就与我同在。
📖 John 15 (NIV)
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
17 This is my command: Love each other.
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
✦ 简短总结（中文）
耶稣用葡萄树与枝子的比喻，说明信徒必须常在他里面才能结果子。真正的门徒要彼此相爱，甚至愿意为朋友舍命。耶稣称他们为朋友而不是仆人，因为他将父的心意告诉了他们。他提醒门徒会遭世人恨恶和逼迫，但圣灵（保惠师）会来作见证，门徒也要为耶稣作见证。
✦ Brief Summary (English)
Jesus uses the image of the vine and branches to teach that believers must remain in him to bear fruit. True disciples are called to love one another, even to the point of laying down their lives. Jesus calls them friends, not servants, for he has revealed the Father’s will to them. He warns that the world will hate and persecute them, but promises that the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, will testify about him, and they too must bear witness.
📖 问答式解析（中文）
问：耶稣为什么用葡萄树和枝子的比喻？
答：要说明信徒与主的关系，必须连于他才能有生命和结果子；离了他就枯干无用。
问：耶稣怎样定义最大的爱？
答：为朋友舍命，这是爱的最高表现，也预示他为世人舍命。
问：耶稣为什么称门徒为“朋友”而不是“仆人”？
答：因为他把从父那里听来的都告诉他们，朋友是信任与平等关系的象征。
问：为什么世界会恨门徒？
答：因为世界先恨耶稣；门徒不属世界，被主拣选出来，所以会遭逼迫。
问：圣灵在这里的角色是什么？
答：圣灵是保惠师，是真理的灵，要为耶稣作见证，也赋予门徒力量见证他。
📖 Q&A Analysis (English Translation)
Q: Why did Jesus use the vine and branches metaphor?
A: To show that believers must remain connected to him to have life and bear fruit; apart from him, they wither.
Q: How does Jesus define the greatest love?
A: To lay down one’s life for friends, foreshadowing his own sacrifice.
Q: Why does Jesus call his disciples “friends” instead of “servants”?
A: Because he has revealed to them everything from the Father—showing intimacy and trust.
Q: Why will the world hate the disciples?
A: Because the world first hated Jesus; since they do not belong to the world, they will face persecution.
Q: What is the role of the Holy Spirit here?
A: The Spirit, the Advocate, will testify about Jesus and empower the disciples to witness as well.
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