La Bibbia

 

マタイによる福音書 9

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1 さて、イエスは舟に乗って海を渡り、自分のに帰られた。

2 すると、人々が中風の者を床の上寝かせたままでみもと運んできた。イエスは彼らの信仰を見て、中風の者、「子よ、しっかりしなさい。あなたの罪はゆるされたのだ」と言われた。

3 すると、ある律法学者たちが心の中で言った、「この人は神を汚している」。

4 イエスは彼らの考えを見抜いて、「なぜ、あなたがたは心の中で悪いことを考えているのか。

5 あなたの罪はゆるされた、と言うのと、起きて歩け、と言うのと、どちらがたやすいか。

6 しかし、人の子は地上で罪をゆるす権威をもっていることが、あなたがたわかるため」と言い、中風の者むかって、「起きよ、床を取りあげて家帰れ」と言われた。

7 すると彼は起きあがり、家に帰って行った。

8 群衆はそれを見て恐れ、こんな大きな権威を人にお与えになった神をあがめた。

9 さてイエスはそこから進んで行かれ、マタイという人が収税所にすわっているのを見て、「わたしに従ってきなさい」と言われた。すると彼は立ちあがって、イエスに従った。

10 それから、イエスが家で食事の席についておられた時のことである。多くの取税人や罪人たちがきて、イエスや弟子たちと共にその席に着いていた。

11 パリサイ人たちはこれを見て、弟子たちに言った、「なぜ、あなたがたの先生は、取税人や罪人などと食事を共にするのか」。

12 イエスはこれを聞いて言われた、「丈夫な人には医者はいらない。いるのは病人である。

13 『わたしが好むのは、あわれみであって、いけにえではない』とはどういう意味か、学んできなさい。わたしがきたのは、義人を招くためではなく、罪人を招くためである」。

14 そのとき、ヨハネの弟子たちがイエスのところにきて言った、「わたしたちとパリサイ人たちとが断食をしているのに、あなたの弟子たちは、なぜ断食をしないのですか」。

15 するとイエスは言われた、「婚礼の客は、花婿が一緒にいる間は、悲しんでおられようか。しかし、花婿が奪い去られる日が来る。その時には断食をするであろう。

16 だれも、真新しい布ぎれで、古い着物つぎを当てはしない。そのつぎきれは着物を引き破り、そして、破れがもっとひどくなるから。

17 だれも、新しいぶどう酒を古い皮袋に入れはしない。もしそんなことをしたら、その皮袋は張り裂け、酒は流れ出るし、皮袋もむだになる。だから、新しいぶどう酒は新しい皮袋に入れるべきである。そうすれば両方とも長もちがするであろう」。

18 これらのことを彼ら話しておられると、そこひとりの会堂司がきて、イエスを拝して言った、「わたしの娘がただ今死ました。しかしおいでなって手をその上おいてやって下さい。そうしたら、娘は生き返るでしょう」。

19 そこで、イエスが立って彼について行かれると、弟子たちも一緒に行った。

20 するとそのとき、十二年間も長血をわずらっている女が近寄ってきて、イエスのうしろからみ衣のふさにさわった。

21 み衣にさわりさえすれば、なおしていただけるだろう、と心の中で思っていたからである。

22 イエスは振り向いて、この女を見て言われた、「娘よ、しっかりしなさい。あなたの信仰があなたを救ったのです」。するとこの女はそのに、いやされた。

23 それからイエスは司の家に着き、笛吹きどもや騒いでいる群衆を見て言われた。

24 「あちらへ行っていなさい。少女は死んだのではない。眠っているだけである」。すると人々はイエスをあざ笑った。

25 しかし、群衆を外へ出したのち、イエスは内へはいって、少女の手をお取りになると、少女は起きあがった。

26 そして、そのうわさがこの地方全体にひろまった。

27 そこから進んで行かれると、ふたりの盲人が、「ダビデの子よ、わたしたちをあわれんで下さい」と叫びながら、イエスについてきた。

28 そしてイエスが家にはいられると、盲人たちがみもとにきたので、彼らに「わたしにそれができると信じるか」と言われた。彼らは言った、「主よ、信じます」。

29 そこで、イエスは彼らの目にさわって言われた、「あなたがたの信仰どおり、あなたがたの身になるように」。

30 すると彼らの目が開かれた。イエスは彼らをきびしく戒めて言われた、「だれにも知れないように気をつけなさい」。

31 しかし、彼らは出て行って、その地方全体にイエスのことを言いひろめた。

32 彼らが出て行くと、人々は悪霊につかれたおしをイエスのところに連れてきた。

33 すると、悪霊は追い出されて、おしが物を言うようになった。群衆は驚いて、「このようなことがイスラエルの中で見られたことは、これまで一度もなかった」と言った。

34 しかし、パリサイ人たちは言った、「彼は、悪霊どものかしらによって悪霊どもを追い出しているのだ」。

35 イエスは、すべての々を巡り歩いて、諸会堂で教え、御国の福音を宣べ伝え、あらゆる病気、あらゆるわずらいをおいやしになった。

36 また群衆が飼う者のない羊のように弱り果てて、倒れているのをごらんになって、彼らを深くあわれまれた。

37 そして弟子たちに言われた、「収穫は多いが、働き人が少ない。

38 だから、収穫の主に願って、その収穫のために働き人を送り出すようにしてもらいなさい」。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #553

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553. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ have come." (12:10) This symbolizes the joy of angels in heaven that the Lord alone now reigns in heaven and the church, and that those people are saved who believe in Him.

A loud voice in heaven symbolizes the joy of angels in heaven, and that is why the text later says in verse 12, "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them!" The voice is also said to be loud because it is uplifted owing to a heartfelt joy. That salvation and power have come means, symbolically, that people are now saved by the Lord's Divine power. And that the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come means, symbolically, because the Lord alone reigns in heaven and in the church. That God means the Divine itself from which springs all else, namely the Divine called Jehovah, the Father, and that His Christ means the Divine humanity called the Son of God, may be seen in no. 520 above. So then, because the Divine itself from which all else springs and the Lord's Divine humanity are united as soul and body, it follows that the Lord alone reigns.

This is what is meant by the gospel of the kingdom and the kingdom of God in Matthew 3:2; 4:17, 23; 7:21; 9:35; 11:11; 12:28; Mark 1:14-15; 9:1; 15:43.

[2] That the Lord has all authority in heaven and on earth is clearly apparent in Matthew 28:18, John 3:35; 17:2, 10.

That those people are saved who are in the Lord and have the Lord in them, and that it is the Divine humanity in which they are, is clearly apparent in John, chapters 14, 15, 17. And that only those are saved who believe in Him is clear from the following passages:

As many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become children of God, to those who believe in His name. (John 1:12)

...that whoever believes in (the Son) should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:15)

...God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should... have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

He who believes in (the Son) is not judged, but he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)

He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; but he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. (John 3:36)

He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst... Assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. (John 6:33, 35, 47)

Unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins. (John 8:24)

Jesus said..., "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. Everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. (John 11:25-26)

And so on elsewhere, as in John 6:38-40; 7:37-38; 8:12; 12:36, 46.

To believe in the Lord is to turn directly to Him and have confidence that He will save. And because no one can have that confidence unless he lives rightly, therefore this, too, is meant by believing in Him. See no. 67 above.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

La Bibbia

 

John 14

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1 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."

5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."

8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."

9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'

10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else Believe me for the very works' sake.

12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--

17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

27 Peace I leave with you. My Peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.

30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.