約翰福音12:12-19

 

12:12 第二天，有許多上來過節的人聽見耶穌將到耶路撒冷，
12:13 就拿著棕樹枝出去迎接他，喊著說：和散那！奉主名來的以色列王是應當稱頌的！
12:14 耶穌得了一個驢駒，就騎上，如經上所記的說：
12:15 錫安的民（原文是女子）哪，不要懼怕！你的王騎著驢駒來了。
12:16 這些事門徒起先不明白，等到耶穌得了榮耀以後才想起這話是指著他寫的，並且眾人果然向他這樣行了。
12:17 當耶穌呼喚拉撒路，叫他從死復活出墳墓的時候，同耶穌在那裡的眾人就作見證。
12:18 眾人因聽見耶穌行了這神蹟，就去迎接他。
12:19 法利賽人彼此說：「看哪，你們是徒勞無益，世人都隨從他去了。」

 

¹² The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. ¹³ They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,

“Hosanna!^[d]”

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”^[e]

“Blessed is the king of Israel!”

¹⁴ Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:

¹⁵ “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;
    see, your king is coming,
    seated on a donkey’s colt.”^[f]

¹⁶ At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.

¹⁷ Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. ¹⁸ Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. ¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”

 

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    主耶穌就如先知預言一樣，騎著驢駒進入耶路撒冷，受到民眾歡呼迎接。正如經文的記載：「就拿著棕樹枝出去迎接他，喊著說：和散那！奉主名來的以色列王是應當稱頌的！」

 

    更值得注意的是：當耶穌呼喚拉撒路，叫他從死復活出墳墓的時候，同耶穌在那裡的眾人就作見證。眾人因聽見耶穌行了這神蹟，就去迎接他。以至於法利賽人彼此說：「看哪，你們是徒勞無益，世人都隨從他去了。」

 

    然而人越是歡迎主耶穌，危機就更加凸顯，那些想害祂的人，就是更下定決心。然而主耶穌並不畏懼，因為祂就是為了成為「上帝的羔羊」來到耶路撒冷，要成就上帝救贖的計畫！