马太福音-Matthew 4章12节
| 4:12 |
耶稣听见约翰下了监，就退到加利利去； Now when He heard that John was delivered up, He withdrew into Galilee. |
Enlightenment:
Lord considered the environment and received from it the clear indication where He should go. Do not think that we can be so spiritual that we need no indications from our environment. Even the King of the heavenly kingdom, the Son of God anointed with the Holy Spirit, moved according to the environmental indicators. The Lord’s concept was neither natural nor religious, Furthermore, it was not according to past history. According to history, as the anointed King, He should have gone to the capital, Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is the proper place for the King. However, because His forerunner, His recommender, had been cast into prison, He went to Galilee. According to the human expectation, it was ridiculous for the newly anointed King to leave the capital and go to a despised region to begin His kingly ministry. He did not even go south to Hebron, the place where David was enthroned, nor to Beersheba, the place where Abraham lived. He went to Galilee.
亮光
主乃是衡量了环境，从环境得着清楚的指明，祂该往那里去。不要以为我们可以属灵到不需要环境的指明。连属天之国的王，为圣灵所膏神的儿子，也照着环境的指明行动。主的观念既不天然也不宗教。不仅如此，祂的观念也不照着过去的历史。照着历史，祂是受膏的王，该到京城耶路撒冷去，因为耶路撒冷是适合王的地方。然而，因为祂的先锋，祂的引荐者下了监，祂就到加利利去。照着人的期待，新受膏的王离开京城，到受人藐视的地区去开始尽祂君王的职事，是荒谬的。祂甚至没有往南去希伯仑，大卫登宝座之地；也没有去别是巴，亚伯拉罕居住之地。祂去了加利利。