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The birth of the Messiah

Matthew

This is the story of the birth of the Messiah.Mary his mother was betrothed to Joseph; before their marriage she found that she was with child by the Holy Spirit. Being a man of principle, and at the same time wanting to save her from exposure,Joseph desired to have the marriage contract set aside quietly. He had resolved on this, when an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.‘Joseph son of David,’ said the angel, ‘do not be afraid to take Mary home with you as your wife. It is by the Holy Spirit that she has conceived this child. She will bear a son; and you shall give him the name Jesus(Saviour), for he will save his people from their sins.’ All this happened in order to fulfil what the Lord declared through the prophet:‘The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and he shall be called Emmanuel’, a name which means‘God is with us’.Rising from sleep Joseph did as the angel had directed him;he took Mary home to be his wife, but had no intercourse with her until her son was born. And he named the child Jesus.

Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of Herod.After his birth astrologers from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who is born to be king of the Jews?We observed the rising of his star, and we have come to pay him homage.’King Herod was greatly perturbed when he heard this;and so was the whole of Jerusalem. He called a meeting of the chief priests and lawyers of the Jewish people, and put before them the question:‘Where is it that the Messiah is to be born?’‘At Bethlehem in Judaea’, they replied; and they referred him to the prophecy which reads:‘Bethlehem in the land of Judah, you are far from least in the eyes of the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come a leader to be the shepherd of my people Israel.’

Herod next called the astrologers to meet him in private,and ascertained from them the time when the star had appeared. He then sent them on to Bethlehem,and said, ‘Go and make a careful inquiry for the child.When you have found him, report to me, so that I may go myself and pay him homage.’

They set out at the king's bidding; and the star which they had seen at its rising went ahead of them until it stopped above the place where the child lay. At the sight of the star they were overjoyed,Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother,and bowed to the ground in homage to him; then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod,they returned home another way.

After they had gone,an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said to him, ‘rise up, take the child and his mother and escape with them to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the child to do away with him.’So Joseph rose from sleep,and taking mother and child by night he went away with them to Egypt, and there he stayed till Herod's death. This was to fulfil what the Lord had declared through the prophet: ‘I called my son out of Egypt.’

When Herod saw how the astrologers had tricked him he fell into a passion, and gave orders for the massacre of all children in Bethlehem and its neighborhood, of the age of two years or less,corresponding with the time he had ascertained from the astrologers. So the words spoken through Jeremiah the prophet were fulfilled:‘A voice was heard in Rama,wailing and loud laments; it was Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing all consolation,because they were no more.’

The time came that Herod died; and an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said to him, ‘Rise up, take the child and his mother, and go with them to the land of Israel, for the men who threatened the child's life are dead.’ So he rose,took mother and child with him, and came to the land of Israel. Hearing, however, that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judaea, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee; there he settled in a town called Nazareth.This was to fulfil the words spoken through the prophets:‘He shall be called a Nazarene’
基督降生

马太福音

　　现在讲的是耶稣基督的降生。他母亲马利亚当时已经许配给约瑟，但还未过门，马利亚发觉自从圣灵怀了孕。约瑟是个正直的人，他不想公开羞辱她，便打算暗地把婚约解除算了。当他决心已定时，天主的使者在梦中向他显灵说：“大卫的子孙约瑟，你不用害怕，只管把马利亚娶入门。她是从圣灵怀的孕。她将生个儿子，你要给他起名叫耶稣（救世主），因为他将把自己的人民从罪恶中解救出来。”这一切之所以发生，是应验了天主曾借先知之口讲的话：“将有童女怀孕生子，人要称他为以马内利”，这名字意思就是“上帝与我们同在。”约瑟醒后，就遵循使者的吩咐，把马利亚娶入门为妻。但直至儿子降生，他一直都不跟马利亚同房。他给儿子起名叫耶稣。

　　耶稣降生于犹太的伯利恒，当时是希律王当政。他出生后，有几个占星学家从东方来到耶路撒冷，说：“那个生下来要做犹太人之王的孩子在哪里？我们看到他的星宿升起，特赶来拜谒他。”希律王听后异常惊恐，耶路撒冷的全城居民也感到非常不安。希律王把祭司长和犹太人的法学家召集一起，问道：“基督要降生在何处？”他们答道，“在犹太的伯利恒。”他们告诉他，先知预言说：“犹大地的伯利恒啊，你在犹大的统治者的眼里，远非是无关紧要的，因为从这里产生一位君王来带领我们以色列人民。”

　　希律王私下又把占星学家召了来，问清楚那星是何时出现的。然后，便派他们到伯利恒去：“去仔细打听一下那孩子的下落，找到后向我禀报，我好亲自去拜谒他。”

　　占星学家们遵照希律王的命令起程去查访。他们看到那颗升起的星一直在他们前边移动，到了那孩子所在的地方的上空就停住了。他们看到这情况就十分高兴。进屋后，他们看到那孩子正和他母亲马利亚在一起，便伏地拜见他；然后打开宝盒，把带来的黄金、乳香和没药等礼品献给他。占星学家们因为在梦中得到指示说不要再回去见希律王，于是就从别的路径返回家去。

　　他们走后，主的一个使者便在梦中向约瑟显灵，对他说：快起来，带着孩子和他母亲一起逃往埃及去吧。你们先住在那儿，以后我再告诉你们该怎么办；因为希律王要寻找这孩子，要置他于死地。”约瑟醒来马上起床，连夜带着母子俩逃往埃及。他在那儿一直住到希律王死去。这就应验了主借先知所讲的话，“我把我的儿子召出了埃及。”

　　当希律得知自己受了占星学家的欺骗后，便怒不可遏地下令：按占星学家们指出的时间，凡是伯利恒城或其周围地区的两岁以内的孩子，全都要杀掉。这就应验了主借先知耶利米所说的话：“在拉玛，你会听到号啕痛哭的声音，这是拉结在哭她的孩子们，而且谁也劝不住，因为她的儿女们再也不在人世了。”

　　希律终于死了。天主的使者便在埃及向约瑟梦中显灵，说：“起来，带着孩子和他母亲去以色列吧，因为要害孩子性命的人都已经死了。”约瑟便起来，带着母子俩去以色列。但当他听说亚基老接替他父亲希律作了犹太王的消息后，便又不敢到那里去。并按另一个梦中得到的告诫，他转往加利利地区，在一座叫拿撒勒的城里住下。这就应验天主借先知们所说的：“他要被称为拿撒勒人了。”

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John the Baptist

Matthew

About that time John the Baptist appeared as a preacher in the Judaean wilderness; his theme was:‘Repent; for the kingdom of Heaven is upon you!’It is of him that the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, ‘A voice crying aloud in the wilderness,“Prepare a way for the Lord; clear a straight path for him.”’

John's clothing was a rough coat of camel's hair, with a leather belt round his waist,and his food was locusts and wild honey. They flocked to him from Jerusalem, from all Judaea, and the whole Jordan valley, and were baptized by him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins.

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism he said to them:‘You vipers’brood!Who warned you to escape from the coming retribution? Then prove your your repentance by the fruit it bears; and do not presume to say to yourselves,“We have Abraham for our father.”I tell you that God can make children for Abraham out of these stones here. Already the axe is laid to the roots of the trees; and every tree that fails to produce good fruit is cut down and thrown on the fire. I baptize you with water, for repentance; but the one who comes after me is mightier than I. I am not fit to take off his shoes. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His shovel is ready in his hand and he will winnow his threshing-floor; the wheat he will gather into his granary, but he will burn the chaff on a fire that can never go out.

Then Jesus arrived at the Jordan from Galilee, and came to John to be baptized by him. John tried to dissuade him. ‘Do you come to me?’he said; ‘I need rather to be baptized by you.’ Jesus replied, ‘Let it be so for the present; we do well to conform in this way with all that God requires.’John then allowed him to come. After baptism Jesus came up out of the water at once, and at that moment heaven opened; he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to alight upon him; and a voice from heaven was heard saying, ‘This is my Son,my Beloved, on whom my favor rests.’
圣徒约翰

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　　那时，圣徒约翰在犹太的旷野里传道，他说：“你们忏悔吧，天国已临近！”他就是以赛亚先知所说的“在旷野高声呼叫‘为主修路，修一条笔直的路’”的那个人。

　　约翰身着粗陋的骆驼毛衣服，腰束皮带，以蝗虫和野蜜裹腹。耶路撒冷、犹太全境和约旦河谷一带的人都纷纷来找约翰，坦诚忏悔，在约旦河里接受他施洗。

　　约翰看到许多法利赛人和撒都该人也来受洗，便对他们说：“你们这一伙毒蛇！谁教你们去逃避未来的报应呢？你们要作出善果来证明自己真心悔改。不要心里以为‘我们有亚伯拉罕为我们的祖宗’。我告诉你们，上帝能从这些石头中为亚伯拉罕造出子孙来。现在斧子已放在树根上，凡不结善果的树，一律砍掉，扔进火里烧了。我用水为你们施洗，是叫你们悔改。继我而来的那个人，能力比我大，我连给他脱鞋也不配。他将以圣灵和火为你们施洗。他手拿簸箕，要扬净打谷场的谷粒，把麦子收进谷仓里，用永不熄灭之火把糠烧掉。”

　　这时，耶稣从加利利来到约旦，见到约翰后，便要受他的洗。约翰拦住他说：“你来找我？我本应受你的洗。”耶稣答道：“你暂让我受你的洗，这样，我们才能尽符神意。”于是，约翰便让耶稣受了他的洗。耶稣受洗后，马上从水中出来；这时，天忽然开了。他看到圣灵象鸽子一样从天而降，落在了他身上。天上传下一个声音来说：“这就是我所宠爱的爱子。

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The Temptation by Satan

Matthew


Jesus was then led away by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil.

For forty days and nights he fasted, and at the end of them he was famished. The tempter approached him and said, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.’Jesus answered,‘scripture says, “Man cannot live on bread alone; he lives on every word that God utters.”’

The devil then took him to the Holy City and set him on the parapet of the temple. ‘If you are the Son of God,’ he said, ‘throw yourself down; for Scripture says,“He will put his angels in charge of you, and they will support you in their arms, for fear you should strike your foot against a stone.”’Jesus answered him,‘Scripture says again,“You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.”’

Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory. ‘All these’,he said,‘I will give you, if you ,will only fall down and do me homage.’ But Jesus said, ‘Begone, Satan! Scripture says, “You shall do homage to the Lord your God and worship him alone.”’

Then the devil left him;and angels appeared and waited on him.
撒旦试探

马太福音


　　耶稣被圣灵引到旷野，接受魔鬼撒旦的试探。

　　他四十昼夜斋戒禁食，感到饥饿难耐。魔鬼走近他，说道：“你若是圣子，就可叫这些石头变成食物。”耶稣答道：“经书上讲‘人活着不是光靠食物，而是要靠上帝讲的每句话。’”

　　魔鬼就把他带到圣城，让他站在圣殿顶上，说：“你若是圣子，就跳下去，因为经书上讲‘主会吩咐他的使者用手托着你，免得你的脚碰到石头上。’”耶稣答道：“可经书上还讲‘不可试探你的上帝天主。’”

　　魔鬼又把他带上了一座高山，把世上所有繁荣昌盛的国家指给他看，并说：“如果你肯向我拜服在地，我就把这一切全都赐给你。”但耶稣却说：“去吧，撒旦！经书上讲‘你要敬拜你的天主上帝，而且只是崇拜他。’”

　　于是魔鬼便离耶稣而去；而主的众使者就出来侍候他。

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The First Batch of Disciples

John

The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples when Jesus passed by. John looked towards him and said, ‘There is the Lamb of God. ’The two disciples heard him say this, and followed Jesus. When he turned and saw them following him, he asked, ‘What are you looking for?’They said, ‘Rabbi’(which means a teacher), ‘where are you staying?’‘Come and see’, he replied. So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent the rest of the day with him. It was then about four in the afternoon.

One of the two who followed Jesus after hearing what John said was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. The first thing he did was to find his brother Simon. He said to him, ‘We have found the messiah’(which is the Hebrew for‘Christ’). He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, ‘You are Simon son of John. You shall be called Cephas’(that is Peter, the Rock).

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. He met Philip, who, like Andrew and Peter, came from Bethsaida, and said to him, ‘Follow me. ’Philip went to find Nathanael, and told him, ‘We have met the man spoken of by Moses in the Law, and by the prophets:it is Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth. ’‘Nazareth!’Nathanael exclaimed;‘can anything good come from Nazareth?’Philip said, ‘Come and see. ’When Jesus saw Nathanael coming, he said, ‘Here is an Israelite worthy of the name;there is nothing false in him. ’Nathanael asked him, ‘How do you come to know me ?’Jesus replied, ‘I saw you under the fig-tree before Philip spoke to you. ’‘Rabbi, ’said Nathanael, ‘you are the Son of God;you are king of Israel. ’Jesus answered, ‘Is this the ground of your faith, that I told you I saw you under the fig-tree?You shall see greater things than that. ’then he added, ‘In truth, in very truth I tell you all, you shall see heaven wide open, and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. ’
初收门徒

约翰福音

　　次日，约翰和他两个门徒又站在那里，这时耶稣从旁经过。约翰看着他说道：“这就是上帝的羔羊。”两个门徒听了，便跟着耶稣走。耶稣转身看到他们跟着他，便问道：“你们要做什么？”他们答道：“拉比（犹太人用语：老师），你住在哪儿？”耶稣回答说：“你们跟来看看吧。”他们便跟着他去看他的住处，当天便住在了那里，此时已是午后近晚时分。

　　听约翰的话跟从耶稣的这两人中，一个名叫安得烈，是西门·彼得的弟弟。他先去找到了他哥哥西门，对他说：“我们找到弥赛亚（希伯来语，意为“基督”）了。”他便领西门去见基督。耶稣看见西门就说：“你是约翰的儿子西门，你以后叫玑法（磐石之意）。”

　　第二天，耶稣决定去加利利。他遇到了腓力，对他说：“跟随我吧。”这腓力和安得烈、彼得都来自伯赛大。腓力去找到拿但业，说：“我们遇到了摩西律法上写的、众先知提到的那个人了，他就是约瑟的儿子拿撒勒人耶稣。”拿但业喊道：“拿撒勒！拿撒勒还会出什么好事么？”腓力说：“那你来看看吧！”耶稣看到拿但业走来，就说：“这是一个真正的以色列人，他心胸坦诚，毫无虚诈。”拿但业问耶稣：“你怎么会知道我呢？”耶稣答道：“腓力还未跟你说话，我就看到你在无花果树下了。”拿但业说：“拉比，你真是神的儿子，是以色列人之王。”耶稣答道：“我说看到你在无花果树下，你就已经信服我了？你还会看到比这更大的奇事呢。”接着，耶稣又说：“我实实在在地告诉你们，你们将要看到天门大开，上帝的使者从天而降，落在人子的身上。”

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To Turn Water into Wine

John


On the third day there was a wedding at Cana-in-Galilee.The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples were guests also. The wine gave out, so Jesus's mother said to him, ‘They have no wine left.’ He answered,‘Your concern, mother, is not mine. My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There were six stone water-jars standing near, of the kind used for Jewish rites of purification; each held from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water’, and they filled them to the brim. ‘Now draw some off’, he ordered, ‘and take it to the steward of the feast’and they did so. The steward tasted the water now turned into wine, not knowing its source; though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He hailed the bridegroom and said, ‘Everyone serves the best wine first, and waits until the guests have drunk freely before serving the poorer sort; but you have kept the best wine till now.’
变水为酒

约翰福音


　　第三天，加利利的迦拿有一家人娶媳妇，设宴庆贺。耶稣的母亲也赴宴，耶稣和他的门徒也应邀作客。酒喝完了，耶稣的母亲便对他说：“他们没有酒了。”耶稣答道：“母亲，你讲这事与我无关，现在还没到要我的时候呢。”他母亲就对佣人说：“他让你们干什么，你们就干什么。”那家摆着六个犹太人洁身礼用的石缸，每个缸可盛两、三桶水。耶稣对佣人说：“往缸里倒满水。”他们便把缸灌满了水。耶稣吩咐道：“现在舀出来给管宴席的送去。”他们照耶稣的吩咐做了。管宴席的尝了尝水变来的酒，却不知道是从哪儿来的，当然，舀水的人心里清楚。管宴席的便把新郎叫来，对他说：“人们待客总是先上好酒，等客人喝足了，再把次的拿上来。可你却把好酒留到现在才端出来。”


(from:马老师的英语花园）
　

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好像那个受难曲拍得很不错的 可俺都没有看到 我可爱的复活节假期就这样过去了 唯一的期待我的笔记本明天可以在深圳复活吧