Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7 The city of Nazareth is located in a region of northern Israel called Galilee. You might have heard of the Sea of Galilee in Sunday school. It's where, 2,000 years ago, Jesus walked on the water, calmed a storm, and fed more than 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. Today, Galilee has a population of more than a million people and is home to dozens of museums. Because Dr. Gomez and Michael knew that a collector of ancient artifacts was after Merle and Pearl, museums seemed like a logical place to

拿撒勒城位于以色列北部一个叫加利利的地区。 你可能在主日学里听说过加利利海。 两千年前，耶稣在水面上行走，平息了一场风暴，用五个饼和两条鱼喂饱了五千多人。 今天，加利利的人口超过了一百万，这里有几十家博物馆。 因为戈麦斯博士和迈克尔知道有个古董收藏家在找梅尔和珀尔，博物馆似乎是一个合乎逻辑的地方

look. And since they'd hit a dead end with the curator of the area's largest museum, they kept looking... and looking... and looking. "This is impossible!" Michael groaned in the passenger seat after hours of driving and 10 museum visits with no leads. "We're never going to find them!" "Impossible? Hmm. Let me show you something," Dr. Gomez said cheerfully as he pulled the car over on the narrow street. "Is this a teachable moment?" Michael asked, familiar with the tone of his dad's voice. As a professor and a father, Dr. Gomez was always on the lookout for teachable moments. "You might say that." Dr. Gomez smiled. At the time, the two were just north of Nazareth in a little town called Cana. After exiting the car, they walked up to the entrance of a beautiful little church. Compared to the huge Basilica of the Annunciation, this was more like a chapel. "Welcome to the Wedding Church!" Dr. Gomez announced.

看。由于他们在该地区最大博物馆的馆长那里遇到了死胡同，他们继续寻找…… 和寻找……和寻找。 “这不可能！”迈克尔坐在副驾驶座位上呻吟着，他已经开了几个小时的车，参观了10个博物馆，却没有任何线索。 “我们永远也找不到他们！”“不可能吗? 嗯。让我给你看样东西。 戈麦斯高兴地说，他把车停在狭窄的街道上。 “这是一个受教育的时刻吗？”迈克尔问，他对父亲的语气很熟悉。 作为一名教授和一位父亲。 戈麦斯总是在寻找教育的机会。 “你可以这么说。”戈麦斯医生笑了。 当时，他们俩就在拿撒勒北边一个叫迦拿的小镇上。 下了车，他们走到一座漂亮的小教堂门口。 与巨大的报喜大殿相比，这里更像一个小教堂。 “欢迎来到婚礼教堂！”博士。 戈麦斯宣布。

"It's nice," Michael said. "You think this is where Merle and Pearl got married?" "To tell you the truth, I have no idea how that works with squirrels," his dad admitted. "No, this is the site of Jesus' very first miracle, where he turned water into wine." Dr. Gomez went on to describe the story, found in the Gospel of John, when Jesus and his disciples attended a wedding in Cana on this very site. "It was traditional to serve wine at wedding celebrations."

“很好，”迈克尔说。 “你认为莫尔和珀尔就是在这里结婚的吗？”“说实话，我不知道松鼠是怎么回事，”他爸爸承认。 “不，这是耶稣第一次行神迹的地方，就是他把水变成酒的地方。” 戈麦斯博士接着描述了《约翰福音》中的故事，当时耶稣和他的门徒就在这里参加了迦拿的婚礼。 “在婚礼庆典上提供葡萄酒是传统。”

As they entered the chapel, Michael noted paintings depicting the story lining the walls. His dad continued, "Jesus' mother, Mary, came to him and told him the hosts had run out of wine. Jesus then asked some servants to fill a few stone containers with water, which they did. When the servants poured it back out, it wasn't water anymore— it was wine." "How is that possible?" Michael asked. "Exactly!" Dr. Gomez answered. "God can make possible what we think is impossible."

当他们走进教堂时，迈克尔注意到墙上挂着描绘故事的油画。 他父亲又说，耶稣的母亲马利亚来告诉他，主人的酒用光了。 耶稣叫几个仆人把几个石器皿盛满水，他们就盛了。 仆人倒出来的时候，已经不是水了，而是酒了。” “这怎么可能？”迈克尔问道。 “完全正确!”戈麦斯医生回答道。 “上帝能让我们认为不可能的事情成为可能。”

Michael nodded and sat down in a pew. In the stillness and quiet of the chapel, he felt like finding Merle and Pearl might take a miracle. He bowed his head and asked God to make it possible.

迈克尔点点头，在长椅上坐了下来。 在教堂的寂静中，他觉得找到莫尔和珀尔可能需要一个奇迹。 他低下头，祈求上帝让这一切成为可能。