
马太福音12:1~8
安息日的问题
(可2‧23-28;路6‧1-5)
1 那时,耶稣在安息日从麦地经过。他的门徒饿了,就掐起麦穗来吃。
2 法利赛人看见,就对耶稣说:「看哪,你的门徒做安息日不可做的事了!」
3 耶稣对他们说:「经上记着大卫和跟从他的人饥饿之时所做的事,你们没有念过吗?
4 他怎么进了 神的殿,吃了陈设饼,这饼不是他和跟从他的人可以吃得,惟独祭司才可以吃。
5 再者,律法上所记的,当安息日,祭司在殿里犯了安息日还是没有罪,你们没有念过吗?
6 但我告诉你们,在这里有一人比殿更大。
7 『我喜爱怜恤,不喜爱祭祀。』你们若明白这话的意思,就不将无罪的当作有罪的了。
8 因为人子是安息日的主。」
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.
2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.
5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
内容观察
2.耶稣以什么例子回应法利赛人的批评?(3~5节)
思考与默想
个人感受
决心与应用
6.为了按主的旨意、效法主的品格生活,今天你决定怎么做?
灵修指南
比圣殿更大的(6节):意思是指,神儿子耶稣基督的权柄高于律法及圣殿。
怜悯(7节):原文意指,借实际的行为善待受苦的人。其核心概念是神对爱及慈悲的旨意。
当法利赛人看到这一幕时,立刻引用他们面对律法的高标准要求,指责门徒做了在安息日不允许做的事(1~2节)。
对于法利赛人的批评,耶稣举例反驳,说大卫曾进入神的居所,吃祭司的供饼填饱肚子,还有,即使祭司在圣殿中违反安息日的规矩,也不算是罪(3~5节)。
耶稣提醒那些攻击的人,将爱付诸实践的生活,才是成全律法的人生。耶稣亲自教导我们,他是安息日的主,以及在神眼中什么才是最重要的。
因此,我们必须牢记安息日之主的旨意,在主所赐的安息中,享受真正的自由。耶稣的门徒并不是透过批评,而是借着爱来完成神的旨意。
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