8 In
the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam
became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned six months. 9 He
did evil in the eyes of the Lord,
as his predecessors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam
son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.
10 Shallum
son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah. He attacked him in front of the
people,[d]
assassinated him and succeeded him as king. 11 The other events
of Zechariah’s reign are written in the book of the annals of the kings of
Israel. 12 So the word of the Lord
spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Your descendants will sit on the throne of
Israel to the fourth generation.”
In
the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah[a] son of
Amaziah king of Judah began to reign. 2 He was sixteen years
old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His
mother’s name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem. 3 He did
what was right in the eyes of the Lord,
just as his father Amaziah had done. 4 The high places,
however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn
incense there.
5 The Lord afflicted the king with leprosy[b] until the
day he died, and he lived in a separate house.[c] Jotham the
king’s son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
6 As
for the other events of Azariah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written
in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? 7 Azariah
rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in the City of David. And
Jotham his son succeeded him as king.
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.
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.
如何持守真道
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聖經所說的「持守真道」（keep / hold fast the truth）不是只是守住一套正確的知識，而是──
*在真理中扎根、活出真理、並在挑戰中不偏離基督。*
整本聖經中，「持守真道」常以三個核心維度呈現：
*（1）持守信仰內容（apostolic teaching） （2）持守屬...
