马太福音21:23~32
质问耶稣的权柄
（可11‧27－33；路20‧1－8）
23耶稣进了殿，正教训人的时候，祭司长和民间的长老来问他说：「你仗着什么权柄做这些事？给你这权柄的是谁呢？」
24耶稣回答说：「我也要问你们一句话，你们若告诉我，我就告诉你们我仗着什么权柄做这些事。
25约翰的洗礼是从哪里来的？是从天上来的？是从人间来的呢？」他们彼此商议说：「我们若说『从天上来』，他必对我们说：『这样，你们为什么不信他呢？』
26若说『从人间来』，我们又怕百姓，因为他们都以约翰为先知。」
27于是回答耶稣说：「我们不知道。」耶稣说：「我也不告诉你们我仗着什么权柄做这些事。」
两个儿子的比喻
28又说：「一个人有两个儿子。他来对大儿子说：『我儿，你今天到葡萄园里去做工。』
29他回答说：『我不去』，以后自己懊悔，就去了。
30又来对小儿子也是这样说。他回答说：『父啊，我去』，他却不去。
31你们想，这两个儿子是哪一个遵行父命呢？」他们说：「大儿子。」耶稣说：「我实在告诉你们，税吏和娼妓倒比你们先进 神的国。
32因为约翰遵着义路到你们这里来，你们却不信他；税吏和娼妓倒信他。你们看见了，后来还是不懊悔去信他。」
The Authority of Jesus Questioned
23Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?”
24Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
25John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?”
They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’
26But if we say, ‘Of human origin’—we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.”
27So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”
Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
The Parable of the Two Sons
28 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
29 “ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
30 “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
31 “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.
32For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
内容观察
2.耶稣认为，比喻中谁是遵行父亲意愿的人呢?(31节)
思考与默想
个人感受
决心与应用
灵修指南
祭司长和百姓的长老看到耶稣在圣殿里的教导，便质疑耶稣是凭着什么权柄做这事(23节)。耶稣没有正面回应，反而问他们约翰的洗礼是从何而来。如果他们回答约翰的洗礼是从天上来的，便间接地承认耶稣就是弥赛亚;如果回答是从人间来的，他们就得面对来自群众的强烈质疑。紧接着，耶稣对无法回应的祭司长与长老说了两个儿子的比喻，表明大儿子才是有实行父亲意愿的人。即使起初予以拒绝，然而只要在发觉自己的错误后，为此懊悔并回转，仍能满足父亲的心意。让我们谨记，唯有遵行天父心意的人，才能进神的国。但愿我们常常以神的话为镜，省察自己的内在生命，在神面前悔改、回转，得享神国子民的福。
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