【读圣经学英语】寻找耶稣

约翰福音-John 11 章 54~57节

11:54	所以耶稣不再公开在犹太人中间往来，却离开那里，往靠近旷野的地方去，到了一座城，名叫以法莲，就在那里同门徒住下。 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there He remained with the disciples.
11:55	犹太人的逾越节近了，有许多人从乡下上耶路撒冷去，要在节前洁净自己。 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover in order to purify themselves.
11:56	他们就寻找耶稣，站在殿里彼此说，你们怎么看？祂绝不来过节么？ They then sought Jesus, and said to one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think? That He will not, by any means, come to the feast?
11:57	那时，祭司长和法利赛人早已下了命令，若有人知道耶稣在那里，就要报明，他们好去捉拿祂。 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should disclose it, so that they might arrest Him.

亮光

值得注意的是，拉撒路复活的时间，与逾越节的时间相近。按照圣经，我们知道基督是我们的逾越节。（林前五7。）但那些热心宗教的人要过另一种逾越节。热心宗教的人守他们自己的逾越节，杀害了那逾越节的实际。换句话说，基督是真正的逾越节，是逾越节的实际。在这些末后的日子，主越过越多与那些真切爱主之人的团体同在。结果祂要作好些事，叫人从他们的死里复活。

约翰福音的原则就是基督在复活里作生命。这卷福音的用意不是藉着规正我们的行为来改良或革新我们。主惟一的用意是将生命带进我们里面。这生命要点活、重生、复活并再造我们。我们若能领略这卷福音的原则，我们的干渴就会解除，我们的饥饿就得饱足，我们的黑暗就被照亮，我们在罪中的辖制就被打碎，我们的死亡也被复活吞灭；这全是藉着在灵中，并藉着话，经历基督作我们复活的生命。

我们绝不能凭着出于自己的任何东西、任何作为，来经历活的基督。永活的基督只能在灵中经历，也只能藉着话经历。灵与话要带我们进入复活里生命的原则中。如果我们在灵中藉话接受祂，我们就要得饱足，被照亮，得释放，并且得复活。当我们从死人中复活，我们就蒙拯救脱离死亡的各方面。没有一件事能压制我们，没有一件事能限制我们，也没有一件事能监禁我们，因为我们活在复活里。

Enlightenment:

It is remarkable that the time of Lazarus’s resurrection coincided with the time of the Passover. According to the Scriptures, we know that Christ is our Passover (1 Cor. 5:7), but those religious folks were going to have another Passover. By keeping their own Passover, the religious people killed the reality of the Passover. In other words, Christ as the real Passover is the reality of the Passover. In these last days, the Lord is more and more with those groups of persons who love Him dearly. As a result, He will do many things to raise people out of their death.

The principle of the Gospel of John is Christ as life in resurrection. The intention of this gospel is not to improve or reform us by regulating our behavior. The Lord’s only intention is to bring life into us. This life will enliven, regenerate, resurrect, and recreate us. If we can apprehend the principle of this gospel, our thirst will be quenched, our hunger satisfied, our darkness enlightened, our bondage in sin broken, and our death swallowed up by resurrection—all by experiencing Christ as our resurrection life in the Spirit and through the Word.

We can never experience the living Christ by anything of ourselves or by any of our doings. The living Christ is only experienced in the Spirit and through the Word. The Spirit and the Word will bring us into the principle of life in resurrection. If we take Him in the Spirit and through the Word, we shall then be satisfied, enlightened, freed, and resurrected. When we are resurrected from the dead, we are delivered from all aspects of death. Nothing can suppress us, nothing can restrict us, and nothing can imprison us because we are living in resurrection.