14:1 安息日,耶穌到一個法利賽人的首領家裡去吃飯,他們就窺探他。
14:2 在他面前有一個患水臌的人。
14:3 耶穌對律法師和法利賽人說:「安息日治病可以不可以?」
14:4 他們卻不言語。耶穌就治好那人,叫他走了;
14:5 便對他們說:「你們中間誰有驢或有牛,在安息日掉在井裡,不立時拉牠上來呢?」
14:6 他們不能對答這話。
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. 2 There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. 3 Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” 4 But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.
5 Then he asked them, “If one of you has a child[a] or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?” 6 And they had nothing to say.
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主耶穌面對這一群充滿敵意的律法師和法利賽人,仍然不失去自己的原則,要救助那些真正在困苦中的人,不擔心自己這樣做會有什麼不好的後果。所以,面前有一個患水臌的人,耶穌就醫治好他,不管是不是安息日,因為這是救命的工作。
正如猶太人在安息日的時候,有牲畜掉在井裡,一定馬上去救,因為這是救命的工作!同樣人為疾病所苦,能早日得醫治就得解脫,有甚麼不好呢?面對這些頑古不化的律法師和法利賽人,主耶穌不遷就他們,做祂該做的事,拯救祂該拯救的人。
當然醫治人是救命的工作,傳福音更是救命的工作,心中有聖靈的引導就要趕快去將福音傳給人,不要看是好人或壞人。因為人是要靠主耶穌才能脫離罪惡,不是脫離罪惡才信靠主耶穌!
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