【读圣经学英语】起了分裂

约翰福音-John 7 章 43~47节

7:43	于是群众因着耶稣起了分裂。 So there arose a division among the crowd because of Him.
7:44	其中有人想要捉拿祂，只是没有人下手。 And some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
7:45	差役回到祭司长和法利赛人那里，他们对差役说，你们为什么没有带祂来？ The attendants therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and these said to them, Why did you not bring Him?
7:46	差役回答说，从来没有像祂这样说话的。 The attendants answered, Never has a man spoken as this man has.
7:47	法利赛人回答他们说，你们也受了迷惑么？ The Pharisees then answered them, Have you also been deceived?

亮光

耶稣真是制造麻烦的人，祂引起了分裂。今天，追求生命的人也会制造麻烦，引起分裂。基督这位大卫的后裔，生于伯利恒，（约七42，路二4～7，）却出现为加利利的拿撒勒人。（约七52。）主生在伯利恒，却长在拿撒勒。当时，拿撒勒是个受人藐视的地方。祂是大卫的后裔，却成为拿撒勒人。（太二23。）祂生长像根出于干地，没有佳形美容，也没有美貌使我们羡慕祂。祂受藐视，被人厌弃。（赛五三2～3。）因此，我们不该按着肉体认基督，（林后五16，）乃该按着灵认祂。因着主长在拿撒勒，人就不认为祂生在伯利恒。

有些人接受了带进死亡的知识树，（创二17，）按着基督的外貌认祂。（约七27，41～42，52。）听听他们的谈话：『基督岂是从加利利出来的吗？经上岂不是说，基督是出于大卫的后裔，是从大卫的本乡伯利恒出来的吗？』（约七41～42。）这种谈话不过是搞头脑。这种头脑的推理是在知识树的原则上。然而，有些人接受了带进生命的生命树，（创二9，）按着基督内在的实际认祂。（约七40，50～51。）不要注意外貌，必须看见里面有什么。里面有基督吗？我们都必须按着内在的实际，不按着外貌认基督。

Enlightenment:

He caused divisions. Today, the life-seeking people will also make trouble and cause divisions. Christ, the seed of David, was born in Bethlehem (7:42; Luke 2:4-7), but He appeared as a Nazarene from Galilee (7:52). Although the Lord was born in Bethlehem, He was raised in Nazareth, a town that was despised by the people of that time. He was the seed of David, but He came as a Nazarene (Matt. 2:23). He grew up as a “root out of dry ground,” having “no form or comeliness,” “no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men” (Isa. 53:2-3). So we should not know Him according to the flesh (2 Cor. 5:16), but according to the Spirit. Because the Lord was raised in Nazareth, people did not consider Him as one born in Bethlehem.

Some comprehended Christ according to His outward appearance (7:27, 41-42, 52) by taking the tree of knowledge resulting in death (Gen. 2:17). Listen to their talk. “Does then the Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” (7:41-42). This talk is simply the exercise of the mentality. This mental reasoning is in the principle of the tree of knowledge. However, some apprehended Christ according to His inward reality (7:40, 50-51) by taking the tree of life resulting in life (Gen. 2:9). Do not pay attention to the outward appearance. You must see what is inside. Is there Christ within? We all must know Christ according to the inward reality and not according to the outward appearance.