32:22 他夜間起來，帶著兩個妻子，兩個使女，並十一個兒子，都過了雅博渡口，
32:23 先打發他們過河，又打發所有的都過去，
32:24 只剩下雅各一人。有一個人來和他摔跤，直到黎明。
32:25 那人見自己勝不過他，就將他的大腿窩摸了一把，雅各的大腿窩正在摔跤的時候就扭了。
32:26 那人說：「天黎明了，容我去吧！」雅各說：「你不給我祝福，我就不容你去。」
32:27 那人說：「你名叫甚麼？」他說：「我名叫雅各。」
32:28 那人說：「你的名不要再叫雅各，要叫以色列；因為你與上帝與人較力，都得了勝。」
32:29 雅各問他說：「請將你的名告訴我。」那人說：「何必問我的名？」於是在那裡給雅各祝福。
32:30 雅各便給那地方起名叫毘努伊勒（就是上帝之面的意思），意思說：「我面對面見了上帝，我的性命仍得保全。」
32:31 日頭剛出來的時候，雅各經過毘努伊勒，他的大腿就瘸了。
32:32 故此，以色列人不吃大腿窩的筋，直到今日，因為那人摸了雅各大腿窩的筋。
22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[f] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”
But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,[g] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,[h] and he was limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.
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上帝和人摔跤，人當然是無法勝過上帝，但是上帝樂意扶持祂所愛的人，故意輸給他，就像上帝在這裡故意輸給雅各。所以，贏的還是上帝，並不是雅各！這是出上帝無比的愛！
正如上帝愛世上的人，故意讓祂的愛子耶穌基督為世人的罪死在十字架上，使世人可以得拯救與祂和好，滅去人和上帝之間的冤仇。而主耶穌也明白上帝的心意，所以沒有行神蹟從十字架上下來，情願死在十字架上，好完成上帝的旨意，使世人可以得救！
所以，我們不能以小小的腦袋來明白上帝在基督裡對世人的愛，我們當存感謝的心，來跟隨主耶穌，因為耶穌基督不僅死在十字架上，更是在第三日後，從墳墓中復活，使人肯定祂是上帝的義，並且要將這個義賜給我們！
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