馬可福音14:32-42

 

14:32 他們來到一個地方，名叫客西馬尼。耶穌對門徒說：「你們坐在這裡，等我禱告。」
14:33 於是帶著彼得、雅各、約翰同去，就驚恐起來，極其難過，
14:34 對他們說：「我心裡甚是憂傷，幾乎要死；你們在這裡等候，警醒。」
14:35 他就稍往前走，俯伏在地，禱告說：「倘若可行，便叫那時候過去。」
14:36 他說：「阿爸！父啊！在你凡事都能；求你將這杯撤去。然而，不要從我的意思，只要從你的意思。」
14:37 耶穌回來，見他們睡著了，就對彼得說：「西門，你睡覺嗎？不能警醒片時嗎？
14:38 總要警醒禱告，免得入了迷惑。你們心靈固然願意，肉體卻軟弱了。」
14:39 耶穌又去禱告，說的話還是與先前一樣，
14:40 又來見他們睡著了，因為他們的眼睛甚是困倦；他們也不知道怎麼回答。
14:41 第三次來，對他們說：「現在你們仍然睡覺安歇吧（吧：或譯嗎？）！夠了，時候到了。看哪，人子被賣在罪人手裡了。
14:42 起來！我們走吧。看哪，那賣我的人近了！」

 

³² They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” ³³ He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. ³⁴ “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”

³⁵ Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. ³⁶ “Abba,^[f] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

³⁷ Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Couldn’t you keep watch for one hour? ³⁸ Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

³⁹ Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. ⁴⁰ When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him.

⁴¹ Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. ⁴² Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”

 

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    主耶穌在面對十字架之前，到客西馬尼園禱告！這個禱告是：「阿爸！父啊！在你凡事都能；求你將這杯撤去。然而，不要從我的意思，只要從你的意思。」

 

    這個禱告讓我們明白禱告的真正意義，不是祈求自己所盼望的事情，而是祈求自己能夠順從上帝的心意！因為要順從上帝的心意是多麼的不可能，我們的內心是充滿悖逆的！就連主耶穌有著無罪的神性和人性，都要求從父的心意，更何況我們呢！

 

    而主耶穌也在這裡教導我們：「總要警醒禱告，免得入了迷惑。你們心靈固然願意，肉體卻軟弱了。」

 

    所以，禱告除了讓我們明白上帝的旨意，更讓我們有實行上帝旨意的能力！

 

 

 

馬可福音14:27-31

 

14:27 耶穌對他們說：「你們都要跌倒了，因為經上記著說：我要擊打牧人，羊就分散了。
14:28 但我復活以後，要在你們以先往加利利去。」
14:29 彼得說：「眾人雖然跌倒，我總不能。」
14:30 耶穌對他說：「我實在告訴你，就在今天夜裡，雞叫兩遍以先，你要三次不認我。」
14:31 彼得卻極力地說：「我就是必須和你同死，也總不能不認你。」眾門徒都是這樣說。

 

 ²⁷ “You will all fall away,” Jesus told them, “for it is written:

“‘I will strike the shepherd,
    and the sheep will be scattered.’^[d]

²⁸ But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

²⁹ Peter declared, “Even if all fall away, I will not.”

³⁰ “Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “today—yes, tonight—before the rooster crows twice^[e] you yourself will disown me three times.”

³¹ But Peter insisted emphatically, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And all the others said the same.

 

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    人是軟弱的，但是人通常自己是不會知道的，正如主耶穌的門徒，當主耶穌說到：「你們都要跌倒了，因為經上記著說：我要擊打牧人，羊就分散了。但我復活以後，要在你們以先往加利利去。」的時候，彼得竟然說：「眾人雖然跌倒，我總不能。」

 

    但是主耶穌知道將來要發生的事情，就對他說：「我實在告訴你，就在今天夜裡，雞叫兩遍以先，你要三次不認我。」

 

    彼得卻極力地說：「我就是必須和你同死，也總不能不認你。」眾門徒都是這樣說。

 

    其實人的軟弱是因為有罪性的緣故，自從始祖亞當犯罪之後，罪就敗壞了我們，使我們沒有能力行善！而且無法勇敢承認自己的軟弱，總是要假裝很剛強的樣子！

 

 

 

 

馬可福音14:12-26

 

14:12 除酵節的第一天，就是宰逾越羊羔的那一天，門徒對耶穌說：「你吃逾越節的筵席要我們往哪裡去預備呢？」
14:13 耶穌就打發兩個門徒，對他們說：「你們進城去，必有人拿著一瓶水迎面而來，你們就跟著他。
14:14 他進哪家去，你們就對那家的主人說：『夫子說：客房在哪裡？我與門徒好在那裡吃逾越節的筵席。』
14:15 他必指給你們擺設整齊的一間大樓，你們就在那裡為我們預備。」
14:16 門徒出去，進了城，所遇見的正如耶穌所說的。他們就預備了逾越節的筵席。
14:17 到了晚上，耶穌和十二個門徒都來了。
14:18 他們坐席正吃的時候，耶穌說：「我實在告訴你們，你們中間有一個與我同吃的人要賣我了。」
14:19 他們就憂愁起來，一個一個地問他說：「是我嗎？」
14:20 耶穌對他們說：「是十二個門徒中同我蘸手在盤子裡的那個人。
14:21 人子必要去世，正如經上指著他所寫的；但賣人子的人有禍了！那人不生在世上倒好。」
14:22 他們吃的時候，耶穌拿起餅來，祝了福，就擘開，遞給他們，說：「你們拿著吃，這是我的身體」；
14:23 又拿起杯來，祝謝了，遞給他們；他們都喝了。
14:24 耶穌說：「這是我立約的血，為多人流出來的。
14:25 我實在告訴你們，我不再喝這葡萄汁，直到我在上帝的國裡喝新的那日子。」
14:26 他們唱了詩，就出來，往橄欖山去。

 

 ¹² On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

¹³ So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. ¹⁴ Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ ¹⁵ He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

¹⁶ The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

¹⁷ When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. ¹⁸ While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”

¹⁹ They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”

²⁰ “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me. ²¹ The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

²² While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”

²³ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

²⁴ “This is my blood of the^[c] covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. ²⁵ “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

²⁶ When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

 

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    主耶穌設立聖餐有兩股張力穿叉在其中，一股力量是上帝完全的愛，另一股力量是人的悖逆。這是讓人覺得很大的反差，竟然上帝是無保留的對人的愛，甚至犧牲的愛！可是，人就是要悖逆、就是要背叛這位愛人到底的主，就是要將祂的存在裕愛的作為否定，甚至祂成為人的樣式來到世界，也是不承認祂的主權，甚至要將祂殺害！

 

    人本以為是照自己的意思來除掉祂，卻不知這卻完成上帝的旨意，透過上帝愛子的犧牲，敗壞了那背叛的勢力，正如希伯來書所說：「兒女既同有血肉之體，他也照樣親自成了血肉之體，特要藉著死敗壞那掌死權的，就是魔鬼，並要釋放那些一生因怕死而為奴僕的人。」(2:14-15)

 

    保羅也說：「因我們還軟弱的時候，基督就按所定的日期為罪人死。為義人死，是少有的；為仁人死，或者有敢做的。現在我們既靠著他的血稱義，就更要藉著他免去上帝的忿怒。因為我們作仇敵的時候，且藉著上帝兒子的死，得與上帝和好；既已和好，就更要因他的生得救了。不但如此，我們既藉著我主耶穌基督得與上帝和好，也就藉著他以上帝為樂。」(羅馬書5:6-11)

 

    這是多麼奇妙的作為，多麼大的力量，讓我們永生難忘！求聖靈光照啟示，讓我們為這樣的救贖大恩所折服、所更新，真真正正重生成為上帝的兒女，在耶穌基督裡！

 

 

 

馬可福音14章

     馬可福音14:1-11  , 馬可福音14:4-5  ,

     馬可福音14:12-26  ,  馬可福音14:22-24  ,

     馬可福音14:27-31  , 馬可福音 14:27-31 ,

     馬可福音14:32-42 , 

     馬可福音14:43-52  ,

     馬可福音14:53-65  ,

     馬可福音14:66-72 ,

馬可福音14:1-11

 

14:1 過兩天是逾越節，又是除酵節，祭司長和文士想法子怎麼用詭計捉拿耶穌，殺他。
14:2 只是說：「當節的日子不可，恐怕百姓生亂。」
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。」
14:10 十二門徒之中，有一個加略人猶大去見祭司長，要把耶穌交給他們。
14:11 他們聽見就歡喜，又應許給他銀子；他就尋思如何得便把耶穌交給他們。

 

 Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. ² “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”

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.”

¹⁰ Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. ¹¹ They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

 

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    主耶穌不僅面對文士、法利賽人和祭司這股外在的抵抗勢力，還要面對門徒中的反對力量！可怕的是在最後這兩股力量竟然聯合起來，一同要謀害主耶穌！因為他們都有自己的野心，主耶穌就是阻擋他們野心發展的絆腳石！因為他們不能也不可承認耶穌基督是主，他們唯有除去主耶穌，他們的野心才能實現！

 

    也因為這樣，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。有幾個人心中很不喜悅，說：「何用這樣枉費香膏呢？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！

 

    他們不把主耶穌看為寶貴，才會有這樣的反應！想想我們跟隨主耶穌成為基督徒，是不是有看耶穌基督為至寶，還是別有所求呢？這些別有所求，就是前面所說的「野心」！我們蒙上帝恩典得救成為基督徒、上帝的兒女，就是要「與基督聯合」，要得著基督，正如保羅所說：「只是我先前以為與我有益的，我現在因基督都當作有損的。不但如此，我也將萬事當作有損的，因我以認識我主基督耶穌為至寶。我為他已經丟棄萬事，看作糞土，為要得著基督！」(腓立比書3:7-8)

 

    主耶穌面對有野心的門徒，勸他們說：「由她吧！為甚麼難為她呢？她在我身上做的是一件美事。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。」

 

    不僅如此，主耶穌也說到：「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。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。」

 

    讓我們效法這位婦人，將主耶穌看為我們一生的至寶，甚至付上一切都是為主耶穌！我們這樣做是不會浪費的，我們看重主耶穌，主耶穌也看我們為寶貝！能夠讓萬王之王看為寶貝，是多麼有福的人啊！