路加福音 14
1 在一个安息日，耶稣来到一个法利赛人长官家里吃饭，期间众人都在仔细观察他。
One (Jewish day of rest/Sabbath day), Jesus went to eat [SYN] at the house of an important Pharisee. Some [men who studied the Jewish] laws and other Pharisees who were there were watching him carefully [to see if he would do something for which they could accuse him].
2 他面前有一个人，双手双腿肿胀，
Unexpectedly, there was a man in front of Jesus whose arms and legs were swollen.
3 于是耶稣对研究法律的专家和法利赛人说：“律法是否允许在安息日治病？”
Jesus said to them, “Is it permitted in [our(inc)] Jewish laws to heal [someone] (on our Jewish rest day/on the Sabbath), or not?”
4 众人保持沉默。耶稣摸了那病人一下，把他治好就叫他走了。
[They knew that their laws permitted it, but they thought that healing was work, which they thought was wrong to do] (on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day) (OR, [they knew that their laws permitted it, but they did not want to admit it]). So they did not reply. Then Jesus put his hands on the man and healed him. Then he told him to go [home].
5 然后耶稣对众人说：“如果安息日那天，你们的儿子或牛掉在井里，你们难道不会立刻把他或它拉上来吗？”
Then he said to the rest of them, “If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on a (Sabbath/our day of rest), would you immediately [work to] pull him out, [or would you(sg) let him stay there until the next day]?”
6 众人无法回答这个问题。
[They knew that they would immediately work to pull him out, even on their day of rest, so they could not justly say that Jesus did wrong by healing the man on that day. So] they said nothing in reply to Jesus.
7 耶稣发现他们都选择坐在主位，于是就讲了一个故事。
Jesus noticed that those people who had been {whom [the Pharisee] had} invited [to the meal] chose [to sit in] the places where important [people usually sit]. Then he gave [this advice] to them:
8 他说：“当你受邀参加婚筵，不要坐上主位，因为受邀客人中，可能有人比你更尊贵。
“When one of you [(sg)] is invited by someone {someone invites one of you [(sg)]} to a wedding feast, do not sit in a place where important people sit. Perhaps the man [giving the feast] has invited a man more important than you [(sg)].
9 邀请你和那人过来的主人会对你说：‘请把位置给这个人。’这时候你就只能尴尬地坐到其他位置上。
[When that man comes], the man who invited both of you will come to you [(sg)] and say to you, ‘Let this man take your seat!’ Then you [(sg)] will have to take the most undesirable seat, and you will be ashamed.
10 但如果在受邀后，一开始选择坐在末位，主人就会过来对你说：‘朋友，请上座。’这样你在同席众人面前才更有尊严。
Instead, when you are invited {[someone] invites one of you} [to a feast], go and sit in the most undesirable seat. Then when the man who invited everyone comes, he will say to you [(sg)], ‘Friend, sit in a better seat!’ Then all the people who are eating with you [(sg)] will see that he is honoring you.
11 凡是高看自己一眼的人，必会被人看轻，凡谦卑之人，必会受到尊重。”
Also, [remember this]: [God] will humble those who exalt themselves. And [he] will exalt those who humble themselves.”
12 耶稣又对邀请他的人说：“当你在准备午餐或晚餐时，不要邀请你的亲朋好友或富有的邻居，因为他们会回请你，你就得到了报答。
[Jesus] also said to [the Pharisee] who had invited him to the meal, “When you [(sg)] invite people to a midday or evening meal, do not invite your friends or your family or your other relatives or your rich neighbors. They can later invite you [(sg) for a meal]. In that way they will repay you.
13 如果你摆宴席邀请穷人、残废人、瘸腿人和盲人，
Instead, when you [(sg)] give a feast, invite poor [people], crippled [people], lame [people], or blind [people].
14 你就有福了。因为他们没有什么可以报答你。待良善之人复活之时，你必定获得报答。”
They will be unable to repay you. [But God will bless you! He] will repay you [at the time] when [he causes] righteous people to become alive again.”
15 宴会中一名客人听了这番话，就对耶稣说：“在上帝之国里用餐之人有福了。”
One of those who were eating with Jesus heard him say that. He said to Jesus, “God [has truly] blessed [us Jews] who will eat [with the Messiah] when he starts to rule!”
16 耶稣回答：“一个人大摆宴席，请了许多客人。
But [to show that many Jews whom God had invited would not accept God’s invitation] [MET], Jesus replied to him, “One time a man [decided] to prepare a large feast. He invited many people to come.
17 到了开席的时候，他派仆人去通知受邀客人，‘来吧！宴席已经备好。’
When it was the day for the feast, he sent his servant to tell those who had been {whom he had} invited, ‘Come [now] because everything is ready!’
18 但众人却都在推辞。第一个人说：‘我买了一块地，得去看一看，很抱歉。’
But [when the servant did that], all of the people [whom he had invited] began to say why they did not want to come. The first [man the servant went to] said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
19 另一个说：‘我买了十头牛，要去试一试，太抱歉了。’
Another person said, ‘I have just bought five pair of oxen, and I must go to examine them. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
20 还有一人说：‘我刚结婚，不能去。’
Another person said, ‘I have just been married. So I cannot come.’
21 仆人回来把这些事告诉主人，主人很生气，对仆人说：‘快到城里的大街小巷，把穷人、残疾人、盲人和瘸腿之人都领到这里来。’
So the servant returned to his master and reported what [everyone had said]. The owner of the house was angry [when he heard the reasons they gave for not] coming. He said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city [and find] poor and crippled and blind and lame [people, and bring] them here into [my house]!’
22 随后仆人说：‘主人，我已经按你的吩咐办好了，但还有空位。’
[After the servant went and did that], he [came back and] said, ‘Sir, I have done what you [(sg)] told me to do, but there is still room [for more people].’
23 主人对仆人说：‘那就到乡间小路去，把人们都叫过来，我希望屋子坐满。
[So] his master said to him, ‘Then go [outside the city]. Search for people along the highways. Search also along the narrow roads with hedges beside them [where homeless people may be staying]. Strongly urge the people in those places to come to [my house]. I want it to be full of [people]!’”
24 告诉你吧，之前邀请的那些人，谁也别想尝到我宴席的滋味。’”
[Then Jesus said], “I tell you [(pl)] this: Very few of you [Jewish] people will enjoy my feast, even though [I] invited you [first to eat it with me when I become king].”
25 一大群人与耶稣同行，他转身对他们说：
Large groups of people were traveling with [Jesus]. He turned and said to them,
26 “如果你们想跟随我，但对我的爱无法超过对父母、妻儿、兄弟姊妹、甚至自己生命的爱，就无法成为我的门徒。
“If anyone comes to me who loves his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters [more than] [HYP] [he loves me], he cannot be my disciple. He must even love me more than he loves his own life!
27 如果你不能背负自己的十字架跟随我，也不能做我的门徒。
[People who are ready to execute a prisoner make] him carry his cross [MET] [to the place where others will nail him] on it. Only those who are willing [to allow others to hurt them and disgrace them] like that because of being my disciples, and who are willing to obey what I teach, can be my disciples.
28 如果你想盖一座高塔，总是要坐下算算费用，看看能不能盖成，是不是？
[I will illustrate] [MET]. If one of you desired to build a (tower/big house), (you would surely first sit down and determine how much it would cost!/would you not first sit down and determine how much it would cost?) [RHQ] Then you would determine whether you had enough money to complete it.
29 否则，如果在打好地基后却不能完工，人们得知这一切就会讥笑你，
[If you did not do that], if you laid the foundation and were not able to finish [the rest of the tower], everyone who saw it would make fun of you.
30 说：‘看看这个人，开工了却完不成。’
They would say, ‘This man started to build [a tower], but he was not able to finish it!’
31 或者一个国王与另一个国王开战，如果他只有一万兵马，而敌方却有两万兵马，他是不是要与军师们商议，看看能不能打赢？
Or, if a king decided to [send his army to] war against another king, (he would surely first sit down [with those who] advised [him]./would he not first sit down [with those who] advised [him]?) [RHQ] They would determine whether [his army], which had only 10,000 soldiers, could defeat the [other army], which had 20,000 soldiers, and was about to attack his [army].
32 如果不能，就要趁对方还未兵临城下，先派使者去讲和。
If he [decided] that his army could not [defeat that army], he would send messengers to [the other king] while the other army was still far away. He would tell the messengers to say to that king, ‘What things must I do to have peace with your country?’
33 同样，你们中间不论谁，如果无法撇下一切跟随我，就不能做我的门徒。
So, similarly, if any one of you does not first decide that you [(sg)] are [willing to] give up all that you have, you cannot be my disciple.”
34 盐是个好东西，但如果失去了咸味，怎能让它再咸起来呢？
[Jesus also said, “You are like] [MET] salt, which is useful [to put on food]. But (salt certainly cannot be made {[you] certainly cannot make salt} to taste salty again if it stops tasting salty!/can salt be made {can [you] make salt} to taste salty again if it quits tasting salty?) [RHQ]
35 它对田地没好处，也不能做肥料，你只能把它扔掉。如果你有耳朵，就要听一听。”
[If salt does not taste salty any more], it is not good for the soil or even for the manure heap. [People] throw it away. [The same thing will happen to you if you become useless to God]. If you want to understand what I just said [IDM], you must consider [carefully] what you have heard!”
