馬可福音5:21-43

 

5:21 耶穌坐船又渡到那邊去，就有許多人到他那裡聚集；他正在海邊上。
5:22 有一個管會堂的人，名叫睚魯，來見耶穌，就俯伏在他腳前，
5:23 再三地求他，說：「我的小女兒快要死了，求你去按手在她身上，使她痊癒，得以活了。」
5:24 耶穌就和他同去。有許多人跟隨擁擠他。
5:25 有一個女人，患了十二年的血漏，
5:26 在好些醫生手裡受了許多的苦，又花盡了她所有的，一點也不見好，病勢反倒更重了。
5:27 她聽見耶穌的事，就從後頭來，雜在眾人中間，摸耶穌的衣裳，
5:28 意思說：「我只摸他的衣裳，就必痊癒。」
5:29 於是她血漏的源頭立刻乾了；她便覺得身上的災病好了。
5:30 耶穌頓時心裡覺得有能力從自己身上出去，就在眾人中間轉過來，說：「誰摸我的衣裳？」
5:31 門徒對他說：「你看眾人擁擠你，還說『誰摸我』嗎？」
5:32 耶穌周圍觀看，要見做這事的女人。
5:33 那女人知道在自己身上所成的事，就恐懼戰兢，來俯伏在耶穌跟前，將實情全告訴他。
5:34 耶穌對她說：「女兒，你的信救了你，平平安安地回去吧！你的災病痊癒了。」
5:35 還說話的時候，有人從管會堂的家裡來，說：「你的女兒死了，何必還勞動先生呢？」
5:36 耶穌聽見所說的話，就對管會堂的說：「不要怕，只要信！」
5:37 於是帶著彼得、雅各、和雅各的兄弟約翰同去，不許別人跟隨他。
5:38 他們來到管會堂的家裡；耶穌看見那裡亂嚷，並有人大大地哭泣哀號，
5:39 進到裡面，就對他們說：「為甚麼亂嚷哭泣呢？孩子不是死了，是睡著了。」
5:40 他們就嗤笑耶穌。耶穌把他們都攆出去，就帶著孩子的父母和跟隨的人進了孩子所在的地方，
5:41 就拉著孩子的手，對她說：「大利大，古米！」（翻出來就是說：「閨女，我吩咐你起來！」）
5:42 那閨女立時起來走。他們就大大地驚奇；閨女已經十二歲了。
5:43 耶穌切切地囑咐他們，不要叫人知道這事，又吩咐給她東西吃。

 

²¹ When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. ²² Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. ²³ He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” ²⁴ So Jesus went with him.

A large crowd followed and pressed around him. ²⁵ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. ²⁶ She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. ²⁷ When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸ because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” ²⁹ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.

³⁰ At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

³¹ “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

³² But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. ³³ Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. ³⁴ He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

³⁵ While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”

³⁶ Overhearing^[c] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”

³⁷ He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. ³⁸ When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. ³⁹ He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” ⁴⁰ But they laughed at him.

After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. ⁴¹ He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). ⁴² Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. ⁴³ He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.

 

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    在聖經中常常有漢堡式的編排方式，就是重要的事情放在中間，外面再用一個包裝來鋪成，讓人讀了以後，有另外一種感受。這段經文的核心就是血漏十二年的婦人，這是一個折磨，因為在好些醫生手裡受了許多的苦，又花盡了她所有的，一點也不見好，病勢反倒更重了。這樣的絕望如同「死亡」一般，人離了上帝的永死也使如此，是無止盡的受苦，找不到出路：蟲不死、火不滅！(以賽亞書66:24)

 

    然而這樣的「永死」在主耶穌的醫治下卻有轉機，因為她伸手去摸主耶穌的衣裳，心裡想：「我只摸他的衣裳，就必痊癒。」於是她血漏的源頭立刻乾了；她便覺得身上的災病好了。正如約翰福音3章16節說：「上帝愛世人，甚至將他的獨生子賜給他們，叫一切信他的，不致滅亡，反得永生。」

 

    藉由婦人的得新生命，如同出死入生一般的復活！進而延伸到睚魯的女兒之從死裡活，也是經歷到上帝拯救的復活大能！而很巧的是，睚魯的女兒的年紀也是十二歲！

 

    這兩件事，雖然與信心都有關係，但是真正拯救與復活的大能是來自耶穌基督，若不是上帝樂意藉由耶穌基督來行醫治的事情，就沒有復活，也因此「信心」只是管道，最重要是出於上帝的恩典。

 

    所以說到「因信稱義」不是光我們有「信心」就可以，而是上帝主動施恩與憐憫！若不是上帝樂意施恩，人是無法得拯救的！因此，「因信稱義」是強調上帝的信實，不是人的相信！

列王紀下14:23-29

 

14:23 猶大王約阿施的兒子亞瑪謝十五年，以色列王約阿施的兒子耶羅波安在撒馬利亞登基，作王四十一年。
14:24 他行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，不離開尼八的兒子耶羅波安使以色列人陷在罪裡的一切罪。
14:25 他收回以色列邊界之地，從哈馬口直到亞拉巴海，正如耶和華─以色列的上帝藉他僕人迦特希弗人亞米太的兒子先知約拿所說的。
14:26 因為耶和華看見以色列人甚是艱苦，無論困住的、自由的都沒有了，也無人幫助以色列人。
14:27 耶和華並沒有說要將以色列的名從天下塗抹，乃藉約阿施的兒子耶羅波安拯救他們。
14:28 耶羅波安其餘的事，凡他所行的和他的勇力，他怎樣爭戰，怎樣收回大馬士革和先前屬猶大的哈馬歸以色列，都寫在以色列諸王記上。
14:29 耶羅波安與他列祖以色列諸王同睡。他兒子撒迦利雅接續他作王。

 

²³ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. ²⁴ He did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit. ²⁵ He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea,^[e] in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

²⁶ The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering;^[f] there was no one to help them. ²⁷ And since the Lord had not said he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

²⁸ As for the other events of Jeroboam’s reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? ²⁹ Jeroboam rested with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son succeeded him as king.

 

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    在此看見上帝仍然保守以色列，雖然他們做上帝眼中看為惡的事！

 

    而上帝之所以如此待以色列人，是盼望他們悔改！

 

    同樣今日上帝也盼望事人都因上帝的慈愛與憐憫而悔改！

 

列王紀下14章

            列王紀下14:1-22  ,

            列王紀下14:23-29  ,

列王紀下14:1-22

 

14:1 以色列王約哈斯的兒子約阿施第二年，猶大王約阿施的兒子亞瑪謝登基。
14:2 他登基的時候年二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王二十九年。他母親名叫約耶但，是耶路撒冷人。
14:3 亞瑪謝行耶和華眼中看為正的事，但不如他祖大衛，乃效法他父約阿施一切所行的；
14:4 只是邱壇還沒有廢去，百姓仍在那裡獻祭燒香。
14:5 國一堅定，就把殺他父王的臣僕殺了，
14:6 卻沒有治死殺王之人的兒子，是照摩西律法書上耶和華所吩咐的說：「不可因子殺父，也不可因父殺子，各人要為本身的罪而死。」
14:7 亞瑪謝在鹽谷殺了以東人一萬，又攻取了西拉，改名叫約帖，直到今日。
14:8 那時，亞瑪謝差遣使者去見耶戶的孫子約哈斯的兒子以色列王約阿施，說：「你來，我們二人相見於戰場。」
14:9 以色列王約阿施差遣使者去見猶大王亞瑪謝，說：「黎巴嫩的蒺藜差遣使者去見黎巴嫩的香柏樹，說：將你的女兒給我兒子為妻。後來黎巴嫩有一個野獸經過，把蒺藜踐踏了。
14:10 你打敗了以東人就心高氣傲，你以此為榮耀，在家裡安居就罷了，為何要惹禍，使自己和猶大國一同敗亡呢？」
14:11 亞瑪謝卻不肯聽這話。於是以色列王約阿施上來，在猶大的伯．示麥與猶大王亞瑪謝相見於戰場。
14:12 猶大人敗在以色列人面前，各自逃回家裡去了。
14:13 以色列王約阿施在伯．示麥擒住亞哈謝的孫子、約阿施的兒子猶大王亞瑪謝，就來到耶路撒冷，拆毀耶路撒冷的城牆，從以法蓮門直到角門共四百肘，
14:14 又將耶和華殿裡與王宮府庫裡所有的金銀和器皿都拿了去，並帶人去為質，就回撒馬利亞去了。
14:15 約阿施其餘所行的事和他的勇力，並與猶大王亞瑪謝爭戰的事，都寫在以色列諸王記上。
14:16 約阿施與他列祖同睡，葬在撒馬利亞，以色列諸王的墳地裡。他兒子耶羅波安接續他作王。
14:17 以色列王約哈斯的兒子約阿施死後，猶大王約阿施的兒子亞瑪謝又活了十五年。
14:18 亞瑪謝其餘的事都寫在猶大列王記上。
14:19 耶路撒冷有人背叛亞瑪謝，他就逃到拉吉；叛黨卻打發人到拉吉將他殺了。
14:20 人就用馬將他的屍首馱到耶路撒冷，葬在大衛城他列祖的墳地裡。
14:21 猶大眾民立亞瑪謝的兒子亞撒利雅（又名烏西雅）接續他父作王，那時他年十六歲。
14:22 亞瑪謝與他列祖同睡之後，亞撒利雅收回以拉他仍歸猶大，又重新修理。

 

In the second year of Jehoash^[a] son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began to reign. ² He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. ³ He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash. ⁴ The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

⁵ After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. ⁶ Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”^[b]

⁷ He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.

⁸ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, with the challenge: “Come, let us face each other in battle.”

⁹ But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. ¹⁰ You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant. Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”

¹¹ Amaziah, however, would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah. ¹² Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home. ¹³ Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits long.^{[c] 14} He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace. He also took hostages and returned to Samaria.

¹⁵ As for the other events of the reign of Jehoash, what he did and his achievements, including his war against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? ¹⁶ Jehoash rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son succeeded him as king.

¹⁷ Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. ¹⁸ As for the other events of Amaziah’s reign, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

¹⁹ They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. ²⁰ He was brought back by horse and was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors, in the City of David.

²¹ Then all the people of Judah took Azariah,^[d] who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. ²² He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.

 

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    雖然記載的是以色列王和猶太王的事蹟，似乎沒有關於信仰的事情，卻是讓我們看見王的作為不是個人的事情，而是整個國家的事情，也讓我們感受到領袖之影響力。