9:1 耶穌過去的時候,看見一個人生來是瞎眼的。
9:2 門徒問耶穌說:「拉比,這人生來是瞎眼的,是誰犯了罪?是這人呢?是他父母呢?」
9:3 耶穌回答說:「也不是這人犯了罪,也不是他父母犯了罪,是要在他身上顯出上帝的作為來。
9:4 趁著白日,我們必須做那差我來者的工;黑夜將到,就沒有人能做工了。
9:5 我在世上的時候,是世上的光。」
9:6 耶穌說了這話,就吐唾沫在地上,用唾沫和泥抹在瞎子的眼睛上,
9:7 對他說:「你往西羅亞池子裡去洗。」(西羅亞翻出來就是「奉差遣」。)他去一洗,回頭就看見了。
9:8 他的鄰舍和那素常見他是討飯的,就說:「這不是那從前坐著討飯的人嗎?」
9:9 有人說:「是他」;又有人說:「不是,卻是像他。」他自己說:「是我。」
9:10 他們對他說:「你的眼睛是怎麼開的呢?」
9:11 他回答說:「有一個人,名叫耶穌,他和泥抹我的眼睛,對我說:『你往西羅亞池子去洗。』我去一洗,就看見了。」
9:12 他們說:「那個人在哪裡?」他說:「我不知道。」
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
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罪與罰是許多人的思考模式,之所以如此是因為人被罪惡所轄制,產生了罪行。因為害怕受到上帝的懲罰,就尋找別人的罪行,好讓自己受懲罰的時候,有人一同受刑罰就不會有羞愧的感覺。
然而許多人認為疾病和身體的殘缺,是上帝懲罰的結果。所以遇見瞎眼的人,門徒會問主耶穌說:「拉比,這人生來是瞎眼的,是誰犯了罪?是這人呢?是他父母呢?」
然而主耶穌回答得很有意思:「也不是這人犯了罪,也不是他父母犯了罪,是要在他身上顯出上帝的作為來。趁著白日,我們必須做那差我來者的工;黑夜將到,就沒有人能做工了。我在世上的時候,是世上的光。」
是的,上帝愛我們,不是要對我們落井下石,反而是從罪惡中救拔我們,使我們脫離罪惡。不像人,總是把自己當好人,把自己政治立場不同的人當成惡人、罪人,想盡辦法羞辱敵對他們的人。
也因為如此,基督徒既然是上帝的兒女,就不可以效法世界的樣式,不是羞辱人來高抬自己,而是要像上帝一樣來尊榮人、寶貝人,使人彰顯上帝的榮耀,因為人是照上帝形像造的,本是要榮耀上帝的!
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