Name: 耶穌的一生：真實故事揭祕！ (The Life of Jesus)
Uploaded: 2026-03-18T11:41:43.000Z
Duration: 34 min 25 s

Jesus was, in terms of his influence, the most important human being in history.

耶穌就影響力而言，是歷史上最重要的人類。

He is also the most written about and discussed.

他也是被書寫和討論最多的人。

基礎被動語態

The earliest surviving document dealing with him was circulated in the 50s of the 1st century AD.

最早關於他的現存文獻是在公元一世紀五十年代流傳的。

Within a half a century of his death, four biographies written in Greek had been published and all have come down to us, meaning they survived.

他死後不到半個世紀，就有四本希臘文傳記出版，而且都流傳至今，也就是說它們都保存下來了。

Since then, entire books about him have been published in growing quantity and and in all languages.

從那時起，關於他的書籍以不斷增長的數量和各種語言出版。

Today There are over 100,000 printed biographies of Jesus in English alone.

如今，僅英文版就有超過十萬本關於耶穌的印刷傳記。

The religion which commemorates Jesus teachings, death and resurrection was well established in half a dozen countries by A.D. 50.

紀念耶穌教導、死亡和復活的宗教，在公元五十年前，已在約六個國家確立。

The first Christian place of worship dates from about A.D. 50.

第一個基督教禮拜場所可追溯到公元五十年前後。

And now nearly 1 million chapels, churches, basilicas, abbeys and cathedrals include many of the largest, most remarkable and beautiful buildings ever erected.

而現在，近一百萬間小教堂、教會、大教堂、修道院和宗座聖殿，包含了許多有史以來建造過最大、最顯著、最美麗的建築。

in cultural and moral respects especially Jesus life and the faith it created are the central events in the history of humanity.

在文化和道德方面，特別是耶穌的一生和他所創造的信仰，是人類歷史上的中心事件。

So far we have considered the influence of Jesus as man, but

到目前為止，我們已經考慮了耶穌作為一個人的影響力，但是

我相信祂過去是，現在也是神。

It is futile for us to inquire about the nature of Jesus and God and his pre existence from the beginning, since since that is unknowable, let alone the future which is still hidden from us.

我們探究耶穌和神的本質以及祂從創世之初就存在的意義是徒勞的，因為這些是我們無法得知的，更不用說對我們而言仍然隱藏的未來了。

What we can do, however, is write about Jesus the Man.

然而，我們能做的，就是寫下關於耶穌這個人的故事。

The problem with writing about the life of Jesus the Man is not so much the paucity of sources as their abundance and the difficulty in reaching behind the written text to the full meanings of sayings and episodes.

關於耶穌這個人的生平，問題不在於史料的匱乏，而在於史料的豐富，以及要如何深入文字背後，去理解話語和事件的完整意義。

The sketch that follows reflects many years of reading and historical study.

接下來的概要，反映了我多年來的閱讀和歷史研究。

My objects have been clarity and brevity and my desire is to convey the joy and nourishment that I receive in following Jesus footsteps and pondering his words.

我的目標是清晰簡潔，我希望能傳達我在追隨耶穌腳步、默想祂話語時所獲得的喜樂和滋養。

That is an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Jesus A Biography from a Believer.

這段節錄來自我今天要跟大家介紹的書，書名是《耶穌：信徒的傳記》。

So I want to immediately jump into some background that Paul gives you and I which will help understand the society, the really the world into which Jesus was born into.

所以我想馬上進入Paul提供給我們的一些背景資訊，這將有助於我們瞭解耶穌出生的社會，也就是那個世界。

He says it was harsh, cruel, violent and unstable.

他說那個時代是艱苦、殘酷、暴力且不穩定的。

It was also materialistic and increasingly wealthy.

同時，它也是一個物質主義盛行、財富日益增加的時代。

Rome was in the process of transforming itself from a republic into an empire.

羅馬正從一個共和國轉變成一個帝國。

Rome now occupied all of Italy and Spain, as well as Greece and Egypt and what we now call Turkey.

羅馬當時已經佔領了整個義大利和西班牙，以及希臘、埃及和我們現在稱為土耳其的地區。

Between 50 to 60 million people came under its laws 50 years before Jesus was born.

在耶穌出生前 50 年，有 50 到 6000 萬人生活在羅馬的法律之下。

Julius Caesar had added the whole of Gaul, which would be modern France, to the Roman Empire.

尤利烏斯·凱撒已將整個高盧，也就是現在的法國，併入了羅馬帝國。

The expanding empire was based upon muscle rather than technology, thanks to about 15 million slaves who constituted one third of its population.

這個不斷擴張的帝國，靠的是武力而非科技，這得歸功於大約 1500 萬的奴隸，他們佔了總人口的三分之一。

And whose life was summed up by Aristotle in four work, punishment, and food.

而亞里斯多德將他們的生活總結為四個字：勞役、懲罰、食物。

As you probably already know, I'm a huge fan of Paul Johnson's writing.

你們可能已經知道了，我非常喜歡Paul Johnson的寫作。

I've read and made podcasts on a bunch of biographies that he's written, like on Winston Churchill, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Mozart, Picasso, Disney.

我讀過他寫的許多傳記，也做成Podcast，像是溫斯頓·邱吉爾、亞歷山大大帝、尤利烏斯·凱撒、蘇格拉底、莫札特、畢卡索、迪士尼。

I'll leave all those linked in the show notes in case you want to check out those other episodes.

我會把這些都放在節目說明裡，如果你想聽聽看其他集數的話。

But one of the things I love about his writing is the way he's able to use contrast to drive home a point.

但我喜歡他寫作的一點，是他能巧妙運用對比來強調重點。

And you see that here because he's going to compare who is ruling the area in which Jesus is going to be born into with really the main lessons that Jesus the man taught.

在這裡你也會看到，因為他會比較耶穌出生時的統治者，以及耶穌本人所教導的主要道理。

And so he talks about the ruler at this time being Herod the Great.

所以他提到當時的統治者是希律王。

For more than 30 years, this astute financier had made himself the richest individual in the entire empire, but

三十多年來，這位精明的金融家讓自己成為整個帝國中最富有的人，但是

he was still subservient to the rulers of Rome.

He made himself master of the ancient kingdom, and he was the greatest builder of his age.

他讓自己成為古代王國的主宰，而且是他那個時代最偉大的建築師。

So he built shipping ports, he rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem, he built a bunch of public baths and aqueducts and what we would call today shopping centers in more than a dozen cities.

所以他建造了港口，重建了耶路撒冷的聖殿，在十幾個城市裡建造了許多公共浴池、水道，以及我們今天稱之為購物中心的建築。

He had numerous wives and concubines and sired many children.

他有許多妻妾，也生了很多孩子。

He was suspicious and cruel, and he slaughtered over 40 of his wives.

他多疑又殘酷，殺害了他四十多位妻子。

He killed over 40 of his wives, children, and close relatives.

他殺害了四十多位妻子、孩子和親近的親戚。

And this is the contrast point that I was referencing earlier.

The last year of his life was the year of Jesus's birth.

他生命的最後一年就是耶穌誕生的那一年。

Jesus was most constantly referred to as Jesus of Nazareth, Nazareth being this small Galilean town that he grew up in.

耶穌最常被稱為拿撒勒的耶穌，拿撒勒是他成長的小加利利鎮。

He's estimated to be born somewhere around 4 BC Nazareth at this time was home to many small workshops and craftsmen.

據估計他出生於公元前 4 年左右，當時的拿撒勒有許多小型工坊和工匠。

One of these craftsmen was Joseph, who was a carpenter.

其中一位工匠是約瑟，他是一位木匠。

Joseph was a prosperous tradesman, or the way you and I would talk about that is he was a good entrepreneur.

約瑟是一位成功的商人，或者用我們現在的話來說，他是一位很棒的創業家。

And then he takes as his bride as his wife, Mary.

This is a description of Jesus's childhood.

There was much praying, and the Jewish feasts and practices were meticulously observed.

他們經常祈禱，並且嚴格遵守猶太節日和習俗。

Every year at the feast of Passover, they went up to Jerusalem to make a sacrifice in the temple.

每年逾越節，他們都會前往耶路撒冷，在聖殿獻祭。

So by the time that Jesus is 12 years old, they think that he's old enough to wander around Jerusalem by himself, exploring.

所以到了耶穌 12 歲的時候，他們認為他已經夠大了，可以自己逛耶路撒冷，到處看看。

They usually do this trip with a bunch of other people.

So a few days later, they wind up leaving and heading back home.

所以幾天後，他們就啟程回家了。

They get about a day's journey away when they realize that Jesus was not in their group, that he was lost.

他們走了大約一天路程，才發現耶穌不在他們的隊伍裡，他走丟了。

And this frightened Mary because she realized that he was left behind in what they called a holy and wicked city.

這讓瑪麗亞很害怕，因為她意識到他被留在了他們稱為神聖又邪惡的城市裡。

而且他們找了他三天都找不到。

On the third day they find him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the elders, both hearing them and asking them questions.

第三天，他們在聖殿裡找到他，他正坐在長老中間，一面聽他們講道，一面發問。

And it says, and all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and his answers.

所有聽見他講論的人，都對他的聰明和他的應對感到驚奇。

And it is in this exchange where we get Jesus's first recorded words.

而就在這次對話中，我們看到了耶穌第一次被記錄下來的話。

His it says Mary rebuked him for his thoughtlessness.

聖經提到，瑪麗亞責備他，說他怎麼會這麼不考慮別人。

And she said, son, why have you treated us so?

她說：「兒子啊，你為什麼這樣對待我們？

We have been searching for you in great distress.

他說：「你們為什麼找我呢？」

Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?

「你們不知道我必須在我父親的家裡嗎？」

So there's a couple interesting things here.

this is really what we'll talk to a lot talk a lot about, is the fact that the way to think about Jesus is think about him as a teacher.

這也是我們接下來會一直聊、一直聊的重點，就是我們可以把耶穌想成一位老師。

In his teachings, he uses questions a lot.

在他的教導中，他很常使用問句。

There's over 300 different questions just in the four Gospels alone.

光是在四本福音書裡，就有超過三百個問題。

It is interesting that the first recorded words that we get from Jesus is actually in the form of a question.

有趣的是，我們從耶穌那裡聽到的第一句話，其實就是一個問題。

And then after this, Paul Johnson writes, it is striking that these first recorded words of Jesus are of peace.

接著，Paul Johnson 寫道，耶穌最初被記錄下來的話語竟然是關於和平的，這點很引人注目。

With his entire life and mission, he must be about God's business.

他的一生和使命，都必須是為了天父的事。

And that is the extent of what we know about Jesus's childhood.

這就是我們所知道的關於耶穌童年的全部內容。

The gospels then Skip the next 18 years of Jesus life and they don't pick back up until he's being baptized by Saint John John the Baptist.

福音書接著跳過了耶穌接下來的十八年，直到他被聖約翰、約翰施洗為止，才又重新提起。

It is a somber and unwelcome fact that for more than half of Jesus's life we know absolutely nothing about what he did or where he went or how he lived.

有一個令人沮喪且不受歡迎的事實是，在耶穌生命的大半時間裡，我們對他做了什麼、去了哪裡或如何生活，一無所知。

All we know is that his story picks up around.

我們所知道的，就是他的故事是從他大約。

He's around 30 years of age and it's very clear that he's a man of wide knowledge.

大約三十歲左右開始的，而且很明顯他是一位知識淵博的人。

We must assume that Jesus was self taught in many respects.

我們必須假設耶穌在很多方面都是自學成才的。

His words and concepts betray absolutely no sign of academic deformation or the impress of a system being an autodidact.

他的言談和概念完全沒有學術扭曲的跡象，也沒有被體系所影響，他是一位自學成才的人。

He was dismissed by his critics as uneducated.

他的批評者認為他沒有受過教育。

And so there's examples where the educated or the ruling elite hear him speak and they say stuff like this, how did this man get such learning without having been taught?

所以有這樣的例子，受過教育或統治階層聽到他講話，他們會說：「這個人沒有受過教導，怎麼會有這麼淵博的知識？」

Jesus possessed broad knowledge, especially of trade and agriculture.

耶穌擁有廣泛的知識，尤其是在貿易和農業方面。

This is made clear by his confident and expert references to those practical matters in his sayings and parables.

這從他在言談和寓言中對這些實際事務的自信和專業引用中可以清楚地看出來。

Jesus had a huge range, one reason why so many people love to listen to him.

耶穌的涉獵範圍很廣，這也是為什麼這麼多人愛聽他講話的原因之一。

But I suspect that his knowledge reflected actual experience.

不過我猜測，他的知識反映了實際的經驗。

The death of Joseph, which occurred during his missing years, led to the breakup of the Nazareth household.

約瑟的過世，發生在他失蹤的那些年，導致拿撒勒的家庭分崩離析。

His mother Mary went to live with one of her numerous family.

他的母親馬利亞搬去跟她眾多親戚中的一位同住。

At that point, it would have been natural for Jesus to leave home and seek experience in a wider world.

在那時候，耶穌離開家去外面世界尋求經驗是很自然的。

But Paul makes the point that this is just his opinion based on his readings and studyings because he says there is no means of knowing what he did.

但保羅指出，這只是他根據閱讀和研究得出的個人看法，因為他說 無法得知他做了什麼。

This then is what we know of Jesus birth and childhood and what we can reasonably guess about his life from 12 to 30.

這就是我們所知道關於耶穌出生和童年的一切，以及我們對他 12 到 30 歲之間的生活可以合理猜測的部分。

At that point he began his ministry and entered the full glare of evangelical record.

在那之後，他開始了他的傳道事工，進入了福音書記錄的鎂光燈下。

And so in part because we have the most documentation.

所以，部分原因是因為我們有最多的文獻記錄。

But this is also what I want to focus on the most, which is what was Jesus teaching, what did he believe and what did he go around teaching up until the time of his death?

但這也是我最想聚焦的部分，也就是耶穌的教導是什麼？他相信什麼？以及直到他過世為止，他都在到處傳講什麼？