2:13 耶穌又出到海邊去,眾人都就了他來,他便教訓他們。
2:14 耶穌經過的時候,看見亞勒腓的兒子利未坐在稅關上,就對他說:「你跟從我來。」他就起來,跟從了耶穌。
2:15 耶穌在利未家裡坐席的時候,有好些稅吏和罪人與耶穌並門徒一同坐席;因為這樣的人多,他們也跟隨耶穌。
2:16 法利賽人中的文士(有古卷:文士和法利賽人)看見耶穌和罪人並稅吏一同吃飯,就對他門徒說:「他和稅吏並罪人一同吃喝嗎?」
2:17 耶穌聽見,就對他們說:「康健的人用不著醫生,有病的人才用得著。我來本不是召義人,乃是召罪人。」
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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主耶穌不僅呼召稅吏利未,也接納他的朋友們,正如經文說:「耶穌在利未家裡坐席的時候,有好些稅吏和罪人與耶穌並門徒一同坐席;因為這樣的人多,他們也跟隨耶穌。」
然而此舉又和文士有瓜葛了,他們看不慣主耶穌和一群稅吏和罪人一起吃飯,就向主耶穌的門徒說:「「他和稅吏並罪人一同吃喝嗎?」
主耶穌聽見,就對他們說:「康健的人用不著醫生,有病的人才用得著。我來本不是召義人,乃是召罪人。」
而主耶穌這樣宣告,是要人們知道:聖潔不是靠行為來的,聖潔是上帝主動賜給人的,若沒有上帝所賜的聖潔,人是無法成為聖潔,行為再好、地位再高,還是不聖潔!
正如以弗所書所說:「就如上帝從創立世界以前,在基督裡揀選了我們,使我們在他面前成為聖潔,無有瑕疵;」(1:4)「要用水藉著道把教會洗淨,成為聖潔,可以獻給自己,作個榮耀的教會,毫無玷污、皺紋等類的病,乃是聖潔沒有瑕疵的。」(5:27)
歌羅西書1章22節說得更清楚:「但如今他藉著基督的肉身受死,叫你們與自己和好,都成了聖潔,沒有瑕疵,無可責備,把你們引到自己面前。」
也因為這樣聖潔是因為主耶穌而來的,不是我們自己的作為!也因為這樣,我們要存感謝的心來領受聖潔,將榮耀歸給上帝!
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