【读圣经学英语】灵里受搅扰

【读圣经学英语】灵里受搅扰

约翰福音-John 13 章 19~22节

13:19 现在事情还没有发生,我先告诉你们,叫你们到事情发生的时候,可以信我是。
From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe that I am. 
13:20 我实实在在的告诉你们,有人接待我所差遣的,就是接待我;接待我,就是接待那差遣我的。
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives whomever I shall send receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 
13:21 耶稣说了这话,灵里受搅扰,就指证说,我实实在在的告诉你们,你们中间有一个人要出卖我了。
When Jesus had said these things, He became troubled in His spirit, and He testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you that one of you will betray Me. 
13:22 门徒彼此对看,猜不透祂所说的是谁。
The disciples looked at one another, perplexed over whom He was speaking about.

Enlightenment:

Though the foot-washing is for fellowship in life, it was not so with Judas. He was washed, but he was never in the fellowship, because he was a false one (vv. 18-31a). Before the Lord washed the disciples’ feet, the devil had already put into Judas’s heart that he should betray the Lord. This kind of understanding can be confirmed in a negative sense by verse 2, which says that at that time the devil had “already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, that he should betray Him.” The aim of the devil’s evildoing is to keep people away from the relationship with God. But what the Lord did in washing the disciples’ feet was to keep His disciples in the relationship with God in Him. While the devil was working to keep people away from this relationship with God, the Lord did the work of foot-washing as a way to keep His disciples in the relationship with God in Him.

In chapter thirteen the Lord established an example by washing the disciples’ feet that they might have a pleasant time of fellowship, enjoying the Lord and one another. We need such foot-washing today. Foot-washing should not be merely a matter in the physical way. It should be more in the spiritual way which means a great deal to our spiritual life. Today the world is dirty, and we, the saints, are easily contaminated. For us to maintain pleasant fellowship with the Lord and with one another we need spiritual foot-washing.

亮光

虽然洗脚是为着生命里的交通,在犹大身上却不是这样。他被洗了,但是他从未在交通中,因为他是假冒的。(约十三18~31上。)在主洗门徒的脚之先,魔鬼已将出卖主的意思放在犹大心里,这种领会可由二节中消极的意义得着证实。二节说,那时候,魔鬼『已将出卖耶稣的意思,放在西门的儿子加略人犹大心里。』魔鬼的邪恶行径,目的是要使人与神脱离关系。但主洗门徒的脚,是要门徒在祂里面保持与神的关系。当魔鬼在作工使人脱离与神的关系,主也在作工,藉洗脚使门徒在祂里面保持与神的关系。

在十三章,主藉着为门徒洗脚立下了一个榜样,使门徒能有愉快的交通,享受主,也彼此享受。我们今天也需要这种洗脚。洗脚不该只是物质上的事,更该是属灵上的,这对我们属灵的生命有很大的关系。今天世界是污秽的,我们这些圣徒很容易被污染。我们要保持与主之间,并彼此之间愉快的交通,就需要属灵的洗脚。