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譯本是參照 AFV (A Faithful Version 希臘文) 2009

27. Now after these things, He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow Me.”

28. Then he arose, leaving everything, and followed Him.

29. And Levi made a great feast for Him in his house, and there were a large number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them.

30. But the scribes and the Pharisees complained to His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31. Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are in good health do not need a physician, but those who are sick.

32. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

33. Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Your disciples are eating and drinking?”

34. And He said to them, “Can you make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

35. But the time will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and in those days they shall fast.”

36. Then He also spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece of new cloth on an old garment, or the new cloth will make a tear; for the piece that is from the new cloth is not compatible with the old piece.

37. And no one puts new wine into old skins, or the new wine will burst the skins and will spill out, and the skins will be destroyed;

38. But new wine must be put into new skins, and both will be preserved together.

39. And no one after drinking the old wine immediately desires the new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ “ (A Faithful Version)

27. 這事以後,有日耶穌出街,遇到一位坐在稅關的稅吏,叫利未,對他說:來跟從我。

28. 利未就放下一切,起來,跟從了耶穌。

29. 利未在自己家裡為耶穌擺設了豐盛的筵席,邀請了許多同部門的和一些自己的朋友一同歡宴。

30. 這事讓文士和法利賽人知道,找門徒抱怨:怎可以與稅吏和罪人一同吃喝呢?

31. 耶穌回應:康健的人用不著醫生,有病的人須要。

32. 我來,不是召義人,乃是召[罪]人悔改。

33. 這些人問耶穌:你有位門徒叫約翰,他常為有需要的禁食,甚至法利賽人的信眾也照樣如此,而你的門徒倒是又吃又喝,是什麼道理?

34. 耶穌回應:新郎和伴郎同在,豈會叫他們禁食?

35. 只是有天時候到,新郎要離開,他們就會在那離開之後的日子,禁食。

36. 耶穌又用一個比方說:沒有人用一塊新布料,補在舊布料上,就有種不和諧的感覺,因為新布料和舊布料不搭配。

37. 也沒有人把新酒裝在舊皮這的酒袋,恐怕新酒將舊皮侵蝕以至酒液流出,酒袋就受到損壞。

38. 惟獨新酒裝在新皮造的酒袋,這樣酒和酒袋都不受影響。

39. 人若飲過陳酒,就不會想去嚐新酒,因為會說:酒愈陳愈好。

https://carm.org/bible-difficulties/was-the-tax-collector-named-matthew-or-levi/ 作者是叙利亞基督徒社區的牧者,用的是叙利亞文聖經,叫 The Peshitta (Peshitto) is the Bible of the Syriac-speaking community, especially among the Syrian, Chaldean, Maronite, and Syrian Orthodox churches. The term Peshitta  means “simple.”  It is translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic 。這處說明利未就是馬太福音的作者。

路加在這處沒有將利未如何相信這事說明。似乎有說就是借耶穌說明:我來,召[罪]人悔改。註:[罪]是做錯事的人。

按路加記載福音是依順序方式,那麼在第5章開始記載,就有行神蹟的事,每似都叫人不要出聲,只是每次都要避開一段時間。記載一位癱子,說一句他犯錯容易,還是叫他自己走容易?意思是指責他還是包容他,對這人更有幫助?這處是呼召[罪]人不是召義人。

按這記載的順序了解:

1.耶穌不想以神蹟作為吸引人相信的方式。似乎是指神蹟不是為人的身體軟弱服務。人自有各自的處境,有身體的軟弱,那是因為外在環境做成,人本身有足夠的能力去面對。不應因為神有這等能力,便放棄本份,存心去依賴,不是耶穌不能,是耶穌不願。耶穌不願幫人?顯然不是,那是有緣由。

2.這緣由是因為人的自信受到傷害。人的自信受到傷害自己就會放棄去努力,成了癱子。對於這樣在心理上被癱軟的人,他相信耶穌,就因為相信,神毫自動出手讓這相信的得到需要的力量。人因著神恢復了自信,就有能力,去自力更生,自己拿擔架走人。

3.有人是自力更生,卻是只為自己生存,是為肉體靠血氣,人會失去自控,努力以為是唯一生存之道,而不曉得這種血氣行事的方式,是從罪中而來,也會死在罪中。

這位以收稅為生的政府官員,借勢謀取私利,過了大半人生,現在偶遇耶穌,在耳濡目染之下,心中那被遮掩了的心靈,被耶穌的光光照。耶穌早就因為有愛,對人性極之了解,一看利未,就明白他有決心改過。就垣然地呼召他。

耶穌對利未這樣的呼召的方式,看來並不受,相信有規有矩的文士和法利賽人的接納。他們有不去接受這方式的理由:不要放縱,要多多禱告。耶穌的答覆:有耶穌一起的日子,就不要受人為的規矩所束縛,因為你的信,給你的就是自由,像神那樣既自由又能自控。而耶穌呼召的,是自知犯錯,又被律法定之為罪的人,讓他們知道悔改後一切都會改變。那些自義的人,不在此列。

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