14:3 耶穌在伯大尼長大痲瘋的西門家裡坐席的時候,有一個女人拿著一玉瓶至貴的真哪噠香膏來,打破玉瓶,把膏澆在耶穌的頭上。
14:4 有幾個人心中很不喜悅,說:「何用這樣枉費香膏呢?
14:5 這香膏可以賣三十多兩銀子賙濟窮人。」他們就向那女人生氣。
14:6 耶穌說:「由她吧!為甚麼難為她呢?她在我身上做的是一件美事。
14:7 因為常有窮人和你們同在,要向他們行善隨時都可以;只是你們不常有我。
14:8 她所做的,是盡她所能的;她是為我安葬的事把香膏預先澆在我身上。
14:9 我實在告訴你們,普天之下,無論在甚麼地方傳這福音,也要述說這女人所做的,以為記念。」
3 While
he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a
woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard.
She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some
of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of
perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked
her harshly.
6 “Leave
her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful
thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can
help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She
did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my
burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached
throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
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這是一段很美的紀錄,尤其是說到主耶穌與拿著一玉瓶至貴的真哪噠香膏來的女人之間的互動,更是讓人感動!
我們要是知道:主耶穌除了是完全的人,也是完全的上帝的時候,為主耶穌做的一切都是值得的,都沒有白費的!就像我們要尊重人的價值,而主耶穌也是完全的上帝,不只讓人尊重,更是要來崇敬祂,祂是配得一切的榮耀的!
然而祂也不是我們口頭說的有資格來尊崇,更是有實際行動配得我們尊崇祂,就是祂甚至為了承擔我們罪惡的刑罰,為我們的罪來犧牲自己成為贖罪的祭物,使我們因這祂而成為上帝的兒女,承受永生的福樂!
及使是最貴重的真哪噠香膏,正如那幾個人所說三十多兩銀子,也算不得甚麼!雖然周濟窮人是很崇高的道德實踐,然而尊崇主耶穌,更是高尚無比的道德實踐,所以主耶穌說:「我實在告訴你們,普天之下,無論在甚麼地方傳這福音,也要述說這女人所做的,以為記念。」
我們也要常常思念這事,來學習如何愛我們的主耶穌,這是最高的道德實踐呢!