“你们可以去告诉他的门徒和彼得说,他在你们以先往加利利去。在那里你们要见他,正如他从前所告诉你们的。” - 可 16:7
彼得这个名字被单列出来。
彼得是《马可福音》中第一个被提到名字的门徒(1:16;3:16),而在这里他是最后一个被提到的。
彼得遭受了非同寻常的失败,他三次不认耶稣(可 14:66-72)。那不是一个轻微的信仰缺失,而是一个悖逆的公开强调:“我不认得那个人”。
想到这些话,我们—还有彼得—可能认为他已经完蛋了。彻底失败。不可饶恕。一无是处。我们有多少人曾经这样想过自己?
如果你曾经彻底搞砸过,错失过,或者荒废过,那么你一定要留心这句经文特别列明彼得,那是多么奇妙的恩典。这个对一个失败门徒,真是非常宝贵的认可,去“告诉…彼得”!--无可置疑,我们找到了他已经被饶恕的证据。
请用你自己的名字替换彼得的名字。在复活的所有重大好处中,“宽恕”是我们能够理解、无可争议的事实,耶稣已经除去了我们的罪,恢复了我们与祂的关系。
耶稣对彼得的呼唤,包含了救主为他—也为你—赢得的所有修复和宽恕!
祷告
亲爱的耶稣,感谢你特别呼唤一个失败的门徒的名字。我很高兴知道你晓得我的名字,并且也呼召我回转向你。阿们。
马可福音 16:6-7
6那少年人对她们说:“不要惊恐!你们寻找那钉十字架的拿撒勒人耶稣,他已经复活了,不在这里。请看安放他的地方!
7你们可以去告诉他的门徒和彼得说:‘他在你们以先往加利利去,在那里你们要见他,正如他从前所告诉你们的。’”
Tell Peter!
“Go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’” - Mark 16:7
Peter gets singled out.
Peter was the first disciple mentioned by name in the book of Mark (1:16; 3:16), and here he is the last one mentioned.
Peter had suffered an extraordinary failure when he denied Jesus three times (Mark 14:66-72). This was not a slight faith-flaw but a defiant public insistence: “I don’t know this man.”
Considering those words, we—and Peter—might think he was done for. Washed up. Unforgivable. Good for nothing but the trash heap. How many of us have ever thought of ourselves that way?
If you’ve ever totally blown it, lost it, or wasted it, then be sure to see the wonderful grace in this statement that singles out Peter. In this beautiful and essential nod to a disciple who failed, we find the indisputable evidence that he has been forgiven: “Tell . . . Peter”!
Replace Peter’s name with your own. Of all the great benefits of the resurrection, forgiveness is the indisputable evidence that we can understand—that Jesus has taken care of our sin and restores our relationship with him.
Jesus’ shout-out to Peter contains all the restoration and forgiveness that the Savior has earned for him—and for you!
Prayer
Dear Jesus, thank you for specifically calling, by name, a disciple who failed. I am thrilled to know that you know my name and have called me to be restored too. Amen.