路加福音4: 14-30

 

4:14 耶穌滿有聖靈的能力，回到加利利；他的名聲就傳遍了四方。
4:15 他在各會堂裡教訓人，眾人都稱讚他。
4:16 耶穌來到拿撒勒，就是他長大的地方。在安息日，照他平常的規矩進了會堂，站起來要念聖經。
4:17 有人把先知以賽亞的書交給他，他就打開，找到一處寫著說：
4:18 主的靈在我身上，因為他用膏膏我，叫我傳福音給貧窮的人；差遣我報告：被擄的得釋放，瞎眼的得看見，叫那受壓制的得自由，
4:19 報告上帝悅納人的禧年。
4:20 於是把書捲起來，交還執事，就坐下。會堂裡的人都定睛看他。
4:21 耶穌對他們說：「今天這經應驗在你們耳中了。」
4:22 眾人都稱讚他，並希奇他口中所出的恩言；又說：「這不是約瑟的兒子嗎？」
4:23 耶穌對他們說：「你們必引這俗語向我說：『醫生，你醫治自己吧！我們聽見你在迦百農所行的事，也當行在你自己家鄉裡』」；
4:24 又說：「我實在告訴你們，沒有先知在自己家鄉被人悅納的。
4:25 我對你們說實話，當以利亞的時候，天閉塞了三年零六個月，遍地有大饑荒，那時，以色列中有許多寡婦，
4:26 以利亞並沒有奉差往她們一個人那裡去，只奉差往西頓的撒勒法一個寡婦那裡去。
4:27 先知以利沙的時候，以色列中有許多長大痲瘋的，但內中除了敘利亞國的乃縵，沒有一個得潔淨的。」
4:28 會堂裡的人聽見這話，都怒氣滿胸，
4:29 就起來攆他出城（他們的城造在山上）；他們帶他到山崖，要把他推下去。
4:30 他卻從他們中間直行，過去了。

 

¹⁴ Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. ¹⁵ He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.

¹⁶ He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, ¹⁷ and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
    and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
¹⁹     to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”^[f]

²⁰ Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹ He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

²² All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.

²³ Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”

²⁴ “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. ²⁵ I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. ²⁶ Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. ²⁷ And there were many in Israel with leprosy^[g] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸ All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹ They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰ But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

 

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    主耶穌透過《以賽亞書》來向自己的鄉親宣告上帝要他要完成的使命，然而鄉親反應卻是不信與藐視，因為他們說：「這不是約瑟的兒子嗎？」

 

    主耶穌就將他們的心思顯明說：「你們必引這俗語向我說：『醫生，你醫治自己吧！我們聽見你在迦百農所行的事，也當行在你自己家鄉裡』」；又說：「我實在告訴你們，沒有先知在自己家鄉被人悅納的。…」

 

   會堂裡的人聽見這話，都怒氣滿胸，就起來攆主耶穌出城（他們的城造在山上）；他們帶他到山崖，要把他推下去。他卻從他們中間直行，過去了。

 

   然而，以賽亞書說的是甚麼呢？「主耶和華的靈在我身上；因為耶和華用膏膏我，叫我傳好信息給謙卑的人（或譯：傳福音給貧窮的人），差遣我醫好傷心的人，報告被擄的得釋放，被囚的出監牢；報告耶和華的恩年，和我們上帝報仇的日子；安慰一切悲哀的人，賜華冠與錫安悲哀的人，代替灰塵；喜樂油代替悲哀；讚美衣代替憂傷之靈；使他們稱為「公義樹」，是耶和華所栽的，叫他得榮耀。」(61:1-3)

 

    可見上帝要透過主耶穌為人帶來真正的福樂，但是上帝的作為是超過人的期盼，甚至是人無法接受的！這些鄉親就無法領受上帝的恩典，就是因為沒有聖靈的引導，那些鄉親人無法認出主耶穌就是基督，只把祂當成一般的人，就與救恩擦身而過，這是多麼可惜啊！

 

    今日我們有機會聽見福音，還是用「自我的義」為中心，忽略要倚靠「基督在十字架上完成的義」，也同樣是與救恩擦身而過！