5:27 這事以後,耶穌出去,看見一個稅吏,名叫利未,坐在稅關上,就對他說:「你跟從我來。」
5:28 他就撇下所有的,起來,跟從了耶穌。
5:29 利未在自己家裡為耶穌大擺筵席,有許多稅吏和別人與他們一同坐席。
5:30 法利賽人和文士就向耶穌的門徒發怨言說:「你們為甚麼和稅吏並罪人一同吃喝呢?」
5:31 耶穌對他們說:「無病的人用不著醫生;有病的人才用得著。
5:32 我來本不是召義人悔改,乃是召罪人悔改。」
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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主耶穌的偉大在於不嫌棄我們是罪人,甚至願意為我們罪人死在十字架上,使我們的罪可以得赦免,與上帝和好,成為上帝的兒女!這是主耶穌和法利賽人不同之處!
法利賽人自以為無罪,怕害罪人再一起會汙染他們,所以排斥罪人,不和罪人做朋友!表面上好像是遵行上帝的旨意,過聖潔的生活,卻是和上帝的心相離甚遠!也因此,他們不會認同主耶穌,更不會相信主耶穌是基督!
所以當主耶穌呼召稅吏利未(也就是馬太),利未在自己家裡為耶穌大擺筵席,有許多稅吏和別人與他們一同坐席。法利賽人和文士就向耶穌的門徒發怨言說:「你們為甚麼和稅吏並罪人一同吃喝呢?」
耶穌對他們說一句非常重要的話:「無病的人用不著醫生;有病的人才用得著。我來本不是召義人悔改,乃是召罪人悔改。」
因此,我們自以為義,就和救恩相離甚遠了!
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