今日读经

以利亚宣告干旱

¹基列寄居的提斯比人以利亚对亚哈说：“我指着所事奉永生耶和华—以色列的　神起誓，这几年我若不祷告，必不降露，不下雨。”Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

乌鸦在基立溪旁供养

²耶和华的话临到以利亚说：Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:

³“你离开这里往东去，藏在约旦河东边的基立溪旁。“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

⁴你要喝那溪里的水，我已吩咐乌鸦在那里供养你。”And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

⁵于是以利亚照着耶和华的话，去住在约旦河东的基立溪旁。So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

⁶乌鸦早晚给他叼饼和肉来，他也喝那溪里的水。The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.

⁷过了些日子，溪水就干了，因为雨没有下在地上。Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

撒勒法的寡妇

⁸耶和华的话临到他说：Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:

⁹“你起身往西顿的撒勒法去，住在那里；我已吩咐那里的一个寡妇供养你。”“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

¹⁰以利亚就起身往撒勒法去。到了城门，见有一个寡妇在那里捡柴，以利亚呼叫她说：“求你用器皿取点水来给我喝。”So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

¹¹她去取水的时候，以利亚又呼叫她说：“也求你拿点饼来给我！”And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”

¹²她说：“我指着永生耶和华—你的　神起誓，我没有饼，坛内只有一把面，瓶里只有一点油；我现在找两根柴，回家要为我和我儿子做饼；我们吃了，死就死吧！”But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

¹³以利亚对她说：“不要惧怕！可以照你所说的去做吧！只要先为我做一个小饼拿来给我，然后为你和你的儿子做饼。“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,

¹⁴因为耶和华—以色列的　神如此说：坛内的面必不减少，瓶里的油必不缺短，直到耶和华使雨降在地上的日子。”for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”

¹⁵妇人就照以利亚的话去行。她和她家中的人，并以利亚，吃了许多日子。So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.

¹⁶坛内的面果不减少，瓶里的油也不缺短，正如耶和华借以利亚所说的话。The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.

寡妇的儿子复活

¹⁷这事以后，作那家主母的妇人，她儿子病了；病得甚重，以致身无气息。Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

¹⁸妇人对以利亚说：“神人哪，我与你何干？你竟到我这里来，使　神想念我的罪，以致我的儿子死呢？”“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

¹⁹以利亚对她说：“把你儿子交给我。”以利亚就从妇人怀中将孩子接过来，抱到他所住的楼中，放在自己的床上，But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

²⁰就求告耶和华说：“耶和华—我的　神啊，我寄居在这寡妇的家里，你就降祸与她，使她的儿子死了吗？”Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”

²¹以利亚三次伏在孩子的身上，求告耶和华说：“耶和华—我的　神啊，求你使这孩子的灵魂仍入他的身体！”Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”

²²耶和华应允以利亚的话，孩子的灵魂仍入他的身体，他就活了。And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.

²³以利亚将孩子从楼上抱下来，进屋子交给他母亲，说：“看哪，你的儿子活了！”Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.

²⁴妇人对以利亚说：“现在我知道你是神人，耶和华借你口所说的话是真的。”Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.”

第三年，神要降雨

¹过了许久，到第三年，耶和华的话临到以利亚说：“你去，使亚哈得见你；我要降雨在地上。”After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”

饥荒中的亚哈与俄巴底

²以利亚就去，要使亚哈得见他。那时，撒马利亚有大饥荒；So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

³亚哈将他的家宰俄巴底召了来。（俄巴底甚是敬畏耶和华，and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,

⁴耶洗别杀耶和华众先知的时候，俄巴底将一百个先知藏了，每五十人藏在一个洞里，拿饼和水供养他们。）for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

⁵亚哈对俄巴底说：“我们走遍这地，到一切水泉旁和一切溪边，或者找得着青草，可以救活骡马，免得绝了牲畜。”Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

⁶于是二人分地游行，亚哈独走一路，俄巴底独走一路。So they divided the land to explore. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.

俄巴底遇见以利亚

⁷俄巴底在路上恰与以利亚相遇，俄巴底认出他来，就俯伏在地，说：“你是我主以利亚不是？”Now as Obadiah went on his way, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell facedown and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

⁸回答说：“是。你去告诉你主人说，以利亚在这里。”“It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here!’”

⁹俄巴底说：“仆人有什么罪，你竟要将我交在亚哈手里，使他杀我呢？But Obadiah replied, “How have I sinned, that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to put me to death?

¹⁰我指着永生耶和华—你的　神起誓，无论哪一邦哪一国，我主都打发人去找你。若说你没有在那里，就必使那邦那国的人起誓说，实在是找不着你。As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.

¹¹现在你说，要去告诉你主人说，以利亚在这里；And now you say, ‘Go tell your master that Elijah is here!’

¹²恐怕我一离开你，耶和华的灵就提你到我所不知道的地方去。这样，我去告诉亚哈，他若找不着你，就必杀我；仆人却是自幼敬畏耶和华的。I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

¹³耶洗别杀耶和华众先知的时候，我将耶和华的一百个先知藏了，每五十人藏在一个洞里，拿饼和水供养他们，岂没有人将这事告诉我主吗？Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

¹⁴现在你说，要去告诉你主人说，以利亚在这里，他必杀我。”And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”

¹⁵以利亚说：“我指着所事奉永生的万军之耶和华起誓，我今日必使亚哈得见我。”Then Elijah said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Ahab today.”

¹⁶于是俄巴底去迎着亚哈，告诉他；亚哈就去迎着以利亚。So Obadiah went to inform Ahab, who went to meet Elijah.

行淫时被拿的妇人

¹耶稣却往橄榄山去，But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

²清早又回到殿里。众百姓都到他那里去，他就坐下，教训他们。Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.

³文士和法利赛人带着一个行淫时被拿的妇人来，叫她站在当中，The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them

⁴就对耶稣说：“夫子，这妇人是正行淫之时被拿的。and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

⁵摩西在律法上吩咐我们把这样的妇人用石头打死。你说该把她怎么样呢？”In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

⁶他们说这话，乃试探耶稣，要得着告他的把柄。耶稣却弯着腰，用指头在地上画字。They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

⁷他们还是不住地问他，耶稣就直起腰来，对他们说：“你们中间谁是没有罪的，谁就可以先拿石头打她。”When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

⁸于是又弯着腰，用指头在地上画字。And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.

⁹他们听见这话，就从老到少，一个一个地都出去了，只剩下耶稣一人，还有那妇人仍然站在当中。When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

¹⁰耶稣就直起腰来，对她说：“妇人，那些人在哪里呢？没有人定你的罪吗？”Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹她说：“主啊，没有。”耶稣说：“我也不定你的罪。去吧，从此不要再犯罪了！”“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

我是世界的光

¹²耶稣又对众人说：“我是世界的光。跟从我的，就不在黑暗里走，必要得着生命的光。”Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

谁为耶稣作见证

¹³法利赛人对他说：“你是为自己作见证，你的见证不真。”So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”

¹⁴耶稣说：“我虽然为自己作见证，我的见证还是真的；因我知道我从哪里来，往哪里去；你们却不知道我从哪里来，往哪里去。Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.

¹⁵你们是以外貌（原文是凭肉身）判断人，我却不判断人。You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

¹⁶就是判断人，我的判断也是真的；因为不是我独自在这里，还有差我来的父与我同在。But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.

¹⁷你们的律法上也记着说：‘两个人的见证是真的。’Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

¹⁸我是为自己作见证，还有差我来的父也是为我作见证。”I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”

¹⁹他们就问他说：“你的父在哪里？”耶稣回答说：“你们不认识我，也不认识我的父；若是认识我，也就认识我的父。”“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”

²⁰这些话是耶稣在殿里的库房、教训人时所说的，也没有人拿他，因为他的时候还没有到。He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

你们要死在罪中

²¹耶稣又对他们说：“我要去了，你们要找我，并且你们要死在罪中。我所去的地方，你们不能到。”Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

²²犹太人说：“他说‘我所去的地方，你们不能到’，难道他要自尽吗？”So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

²³耶稣对他们说：“你们是从下头来的，我是从上头来的；你们是属这世界的，我不是属这世界的。Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

²⁴所以我对你们说，你们要死在罪中。你们若不信我是基督，必要死在罪中。”That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

你是谁？

²⁵他们就问他说：“你是谁？”耶稣对他们说：“就是我从起初所告诉你们的。“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.

²⁶我有许多事讲论你们，判断你们；但那差我来的是真的，我在他那里所听见的，我就传给世人。”“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”

²⁷他们不明白耶稣是指着父说的。They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.

²⁸所以耶稣说：“你们举起人子以后，必知道我是基督，并且知道我没有一件事是凭着自己做的。我说这些话乃是照着父所教训我的。So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

²⁹那差我来的是与我同在；他没有撇下我独自在这里，因为我常做他所喜悦的事。”He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

³⁰耶稣说这话的时候，就有许多人信他。As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.

真理必叫你们得以自由

³¹耶稣对信他的犹太人说：“你们若常常遵守我的道，就真是我的门徒；So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

³²你们必晓得真理，真理必叫你们得以自由。”Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

³³他们回答说：“我们是亚伯拉罕的后裔，从来没有作过谁的奴仆。你怎么说‘你们必得以自由’呢？”“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”

罪的奴仆

³⁴耶稣回答说：“我实实在在地告诉你们，所有犯罪的就是罪的奴仆。Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

³⁵奴仆不能永远住在家里；儿子是永远住在家里。A slave does not remain in the house forever, but a son remains forever.

³⁶所以天父的儿子若叫你们自由，你们就真自由了。So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.