バイブルクラスがおこなわれました
本所緑星教会
Bible class on Saturday November 28th, 2015
この日のバイブルクラスも3名の例会になりました。
聖書の個所はルカによる福音書の7章です。
聖書の個所には、イエスの奇跡や赦しの物語がいくつか描かれていますが、今日バイブルクラスで特に話題になったのが、Is This What You Were Expecting? 「あなたは来たるべき方ですか？」（小見出し）から、バプテスマのヨハネと救い主イエスとの間柄にかかわる個所でした。
イエスとはいとこの先駆者ヨハネは、この時点で統治者ヘロデによって拘束されいましたが、聖書ではヨハネが獄中から弟子をイエスのもとに使わして20・・・・・"John
the Baptizer sent us to ask you, 'Are you the One we've been expecting, or are
we still waiting?'"「私たちはバプテスマのヨハネからの使いの者ですが、あなたは来たるべき方ですか？、それともほかの方を待たねばなりませんか？」と、ヨハネはあらためて「あなたは神の子・待望の救い主か？」と尋ねさせています。これは取りようによってはヨハネのふた心、あるいは神の子イエスに対する疑念とも受け取れる言動です。
しかし、この場面でイエスはヨハネに直に会ってはいませんが、ヨハネとその弟子たちに対して（たぶんイエスの弟子たちもその場にいたのではないかと推測できます）、バプテスマのヨハネに最大限の尊敬と寛容さを口にしています。What then? A messenger from God? That's right, a messenger! Probably
the greatest messenger you'll ever hear. He is the messenger Malachi announced
when he wrote,
I'm sending my messenger on ahead To make
the road smooth for you.「では何を見に行ったのか？神のメッセンジャーか？そうだ！おそらく、あなたがたがこれまで訊いたこともないような最も偉大なメッセンジャーだ。彼（洗礼者ヨハネ）こそマラキ書に紹介されているメッセンジャーである。『わたしはあなたより先に使者を遣わし、あなたの前に道を準備させよう』。」
また、以前学んだマタイ福音書の１１章の並行個所（１３節）には、イエスの言葉としてこのような記述がありました。「すべての預言者と律法が予言したのは、ヨハネの時までである。・・・・」
おそらくかつてイエスは荒野で先駆者ヨハネに学んだ時期もあったかと推測できますが、この時点でともに神から遣わされた二人の対場と役割が決定的に違うことがわかります。
★次回バイブルクラスは、１２月５日（土）午後３時から教会会議室で、ルカ福音書８章を学びます。英語と聖書にご興味のある方の参加をお待ちいたしております。
Luke 7 The Message (MSG)
A Place of Holy Mystery
7 1-5 When he finished
speaking to the people, he entered Capernaum. A Roman captain there had a
servant who was on his deathbed. He prized him highly and didn't want to lose
him. When he heard Jesus was back, he sent leaders from the Jewish community
asking him to come and heal his servant. They came to Jesus and urged him to do
it, saying, "He deserves this. He loves our people. He even built our meeting
place."
6-8 Jesus went with them. When he was still quite far from the house,
the captain sent friends to tell him, "Master, you don't have to go to all this
trouble. I'm not that good a person, you know. I'd be embarrassed for you to
come to my house, even embarrassed to come to you in person. Just give the
order and my servant will get well. I'm a man under orders; I also give orders.
I tell one soldier, 'Go,' and he goes; another, 'Come,' and he comes; my slave,
'Do this,' and he does it."
9-10 Taken aback, Jesus addressed the accompanying crowd: "I've yet to
come across this kind of simple trust anywhere in Israel, the very people who
are supposed to know about God and how he works." When the messengers got back
home, they found the servant up and well.
11-15 Not long after that, Jesus went to the village Nain. His disciples
were with him, along with quite a large crowd. As they approached the village
gate, they met a funeral procession--a woman's only son was being carried out
for burial. And the mother was a widow. When Jesus saw her, his heart broke. He
said to her, "Don't cry." Then he went over and touched the coffin. The
pallbearers stopped. He said, "Young man, I tell you: Get up." The dead son sat
up and began talking. Jesus presented him to his mother.
16-17 They all realized they were in a place of holy mystery, that God was
at work among them. They were quietly worshipful--and then noisily grateful,
calling out among themselves, "God is back, looking to the needs of his
people!" The news of Jesus spread all through the country.
Is This What You Were Expecting?
18-19 John's disciples reported back to him the news of all these events
taking place. He sent two of them to the Master to ask the question, "Are you
the One we've been expecting, or are we still waiting?"
20 The men showed up before
Jesus and said, "John the Baptizer sent us to ask you, 'Are you the One we've
been expecting, or are we still waiting?'"
21-23 In the next two or three hours Jesus healed many from diseases,
distress, and evil spirits. To many of the blind he gave the gift of sight.
Then he gave his answer: "Go back and tell John what you have just seen and
heard:
The blind see,
The lame walk,
Lepers are cleansed,
The deaf hear,
The dead are raised,
The wretched of the earth
have God's salvation hospitality extended to them.
"Is this what you were expecting? Then
count yourselves fortunate!"
24-27 After John's messengers left to make their report, Jesus said more
about John to the crowd of people. "What did you expect when you went out to see
him in the wild? A weekend camper? Hardly. What then? A sheik in silk pajamas?
Not in the wilderness, not by a long shot. What
then? A messenger from God? That's right, a messenger! Probably the greatest
messenger you'll ever hear. He is the messenger Malachi announced when he
wrote,
I'm
sending my messenger on ahead
To make the road smooth for you.
28-30 "Let me lay it out for you as plainly as I can: No one in history
surpasses John the Baptizer, but in the kingdom he prepared you for, the
lowliest person is ahead of him. The ordinary and disreputable people who heard
John, by being baptized by him into the kingdom, are the clearest evidence; the
Pharisees and religious officials would have nothing to do with such a baptism,
wouldn't think of giving up their place in line to their inferiors.
31-35 "How can I account for the people of this generation? They're like
spoiled children complaining to their parents, 'We wanted to skip rope and you
were always too tired; we wanted to talk but you were always too busy.' John
the Baptizer came fasting and you called him crazy. The Son of Man came
feasting and you called him a lush. Opinion polls don't count for much, do
they? The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
Anointing His Feet
36-39 One of the Pharisees asked him over for a meal. He went to the
Pharisee's house and sat down at the dinner table. Just then a woman of the
village, the town harlot, having learned that Jesus was a guest in the home of
the Pharisee, came with a bottle of very expensive perfume and stood at his
feet, weeping, raining tears on his feet. Letting down her hair, she dried his
feet, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfume. When the Pharisee who
had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man was the prophet I
thought he was, he would have known what kind of woman this is who is falling
all over him."
40 Jesus
said to him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
"Oh? Tell me."
41-42 "Two men were in debt to a banker. One owed five hundred silver
pieces, the other fifty. Neither of them could pay up, and so the banker
canceled both debts. Which of the two would be more grateful?"
43-47 Simon answered, "I suppose the one who was forgiven the most."
"That's right," said Jesus. Then turning to
the woman, but speaking to Simon, he said, "Do you see this woman? I came to
your home; you provided no water for my feet, but she rained tears on my feet
and dried them with her hair. You gave me no greeting, but from the time I
arrived she hasn't quit kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening
up, but she has soothed my feet with perfume. Impressive, isn't it? She was
forgiven many, many sins, and so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness
is minimal, the gratitude is minimal."
48 Then
he spoke to her: "I forgive your sins."
49 That
set the dinner guests talking behind his back: "Who does he think he is,
forgiving sins!"
50 He
ignored them and said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
The Message
(MSG)
