17:20 「我不但為這些人祈求,也為那些因他們的話信我的人祈求,
17:21 使他們都合而為一。正如你父在我裡面,我在你裡面,使他們也在我們裡面,叫世人可以信你差了我來。
17:22 你所賜給我的榮耀,我已賜給他們,使他們合而為一,像我們合而為一。
17:23 我在他們裡面,你在我裡面,使他們完完全全地合而為一,叫世人知道你差了我來,也知道你愛他們如同愛我一樣。
17:24 父啊,我在哪裡,願你所賜給我的人也同我在那裡,叫他們看見你所賜給我的榮耀;因為創立世界以前,你已經愛我了。
17:25 公義的父啊,世人未曾認識你,我卻認識你;這些人也知道你差了我來。
17:26 我已將你的名指示他們,還要指示他們,使你所愛我的愛在他們裡面,我也在他們裡面。」
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[e] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
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主耶穌不但為門徒求合一,也為後來成為基督徒的人求合一!正如經文所說:「我不但為這些人祈求,也為那些因他們的話信我的人祈求,使他們都合而為一。正如你父在我裡面,我在你裡面,使他們也在我們裡面,叫世人可以信你差了我來。」
然而「合一」不在人的作為,也不在那些認為宗派是分裂基督身體的人,而是在主耶穌說:「你所賜給我的榮耀,我已賜給他們,使他們合而為一,像我們合而為一。我在他們裡面,你在我裡面,使他們完完全全地合而為一,叫世人知道你差了我來,也知道你愛他們如同愛我一樣。」
主耶穌這一段禱告,讓我們再一次體認「合一」是在上帝的作為,正如上帝國的實現是上帝的作為,不是人的作為,讓我們再一次深思什麼是真正的合一!而在二十世紀的教會也曾要以人為的「合一」為目標,反而造成教會更大的分裂,這是我們曾經在歷史上看見的!
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