約翰福音5:16-30

 

5:16 所以猶太人逼迫耶穌，因為他在安息日做了這事。
5:17 耶穌就對他們說：「我父做事直到如今，我也做事。」
5:18 所以猶太人越發想要殺他；因他不但犯了安息日，並且稱上帝為他的父，將自己和上帝當作平等。
5:19 耶穌對他們說：「我實實在在地告訴你們，子憑著自己不能做甚麼，惟有看見父所做的，子才能做；父所做的事，子也照樣做。
5:20 父愛子，將自己所做的一切事指給他看，還要將比這更大的事指給他看，叫你們希奇。
5:21 父怎樣叫死人起來，使他們活著，子也照樣隨自己的意思使人活著。
5:22 父不審判甚麼人，乃將審判的事全交與子，
5:23 叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一樣。不尊敬子的，就是不尊敬差子來的父。
5:24 我實實在在地告訴你們，那聽我話、又信差我來者的，就有永生；不至於定罪，是已經出死入生了。
5:25 我實實在在地告訴你們，時候將到，現在就是了，死人要聽見上帝兒子的聲音，聽見的人就要活了。
5:26 因為父怎樣在自己有生命，就賜給他兒子也照樣在自己有生命，
5:27 並且因為他是人子，就賜給他行審判的權柄。
5:28 你們不要把這事看作希奇。時候要到，凡在墳墓裡的，都要聽見他的聲音，就出來：
5:29 行善的，復活得生；作惡的，復活定罪。
5:30 「我憑著自己不能做甚麼，我怎麼聽見就怎麼審判。我的審判也是公平的；因為我不求自己的意思，只求那差我來者的意思。」

 

¹⁶ So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. ¹⁷ In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” ¹⁸ For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹ Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. ²² Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

²⁴ “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. ²⁵ Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. ³⁰ By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

 

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    猶太人要除滅主耶穌有兩個原因：就是在安息日醫治人和「自稱是上帝的兒子，將自己和上帝當作平等」。

 

    這是很有意思的兩件事情：因為在他們的心中將遵守律法看成是完成上帝的旨意，若不遵守律法會帶來上帝的咒詛，讓他們被滅亡，不守安息日就是件極嚴重的事情；另外一件是，就是人沒有資格自稱是上帝的兒子，是上帝是高過人的，人是不可能與上帝同等的！也因此，他們不能接受主耶穌是彌賽亞，是上帝的兒子，是與上帝同等的！

 

    同樣基督徒不是相信有上帝，更要相信耶穌基督：「是完全的上帝、也是完全的人」，之外還要相信「神人二性一位格」！這是因為我們有教會的傳統信條，是關於基督論的描述，也就是「迦克墩信經」。（https://kk1591.blogspot.com/2014/01/blog-post_7555.html ）

 

    希望你能點進去閱讀與思考，論到基督我們不可以不清楚我們該信什麼，該如何表達我們所信的！