路加福音 21
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
主称赞寡妇的捐资
21 耶稣抬头观看，见财主把捐项投在库里， 2 又见一个穷寡妇投了两个小钱， 3 就说：“我实在告诉你们：这穷寡妇所投的比众人还多。 4 因为众人都是自己有余，拿出来投在捐项里，但这寡妇是自己不足，把她一切养生的都投上了。”
预言圣殿被毁
5 有人谈论圣殿是用美石和供物装饰的， 6 耶稣就说：“论到你们所看见的这一切，将来日子到了，在这里没有一块石头留在石头上不被拆毁了。”
这些事的预兆
7 他们问他说：“夫子，什么时候有这事呢？这事将到的时候有什么预兆呢？” 8 耶稣说：“你们要谨慎，不要受迷惑。因为将来有好些人冒我的名来，说‘我是基督’，又说‘时候近了’。你们不要跟从他们！ 9 你们听见打仗和扰乱的事，不要惊惶，因为这些事必须先有，只是末期不能立时就到。”
10 当时，耶稣对他们说：“民要攻打民，国要攻打国， 11 地要大大震动，多处必有饥荒、瘟疫，又有可怕的异象和大神迹从天上显现。 12 但这一切的事以先，人要下手拿住你们，逼迫你们，把你们交给会堂，并且收在监里，又为我的名拉你们到君王诸侯面前。 13 但这些事终必为你们的见证。
忍受艰难的必要得救
14 “所以，你们当立定心意，不要预先思想怎样分诉； 15 因为我必赐你们口才、智慧，是你们一切敌人所敌不住、驳不倒的。 16 连你们的父母、弟兄、亲族、朋友也要把你们交官，你们也有被他们害死的。 17 你们要为我的名被众人恨恶， 18 然而，你们连一根头发也必不损坏。 19 你们常存忍耐，就必保全灵魂[a]。
20 “你们看见耶路撒冷被兵围困，就可知道它成荒场的日子近了。 21 那时，在犹太的，应当逃到山上；在城里的，应当出来；在乡下的，不要进城。 22 因为这是报应的日子，使经上所写的都得应验。 23 当那些日子，怀孕的和奶孩子的有祸了！因为将有大灾难降在这地方，也有震怒临到这百姓。 24 他们要倒在刀下，又被掳到各国去。耶路撒冷要被外邦人践踏，直到外邦人的日期满了。 25 日、月、星辰要显出异兆，地上的邦国也有困苦，因海中波浪的响声就慌慌不定。 26 天势都要震动，人想起那将要临到世界的事，就都吓得魂不附体。 27 那时，他们要看见人子有能力、有大荣耀驾云降临。 28 一有这些事，你们就当挺身昂首，因为你们得赎的日子近了。”
从无花果树学比方
29 耶稣又设比喻对他们说：“你们看无花果树和各样的树， 30 它发芽的时候，你们一看见，自然晓得夏天近了。 31 这样，你们看见这些事渐渐地成就，也该晓得神的国近了。 32 我实在告诉你们：这世代还没有过去，这些事都要成就。 33 天地要废去，我的话却不能废去。
34 “你们要谨慎，恐怕因贪食、醉酒并今生的思虑累住你们的心，那日子就如同网罗忽然临到你们， 35 因为那日子要这样临到全地上一切居住的人。 36 你们要时时警醒，常常祈求，使你们能逃避这一切要来的事，得以站立在人子面前。”
37 耶稣每日在殿里教训人，每夜出城在一座山——名叫橄榄山——住宿。 38 众百姓清早上圣殿，到耶稣那里，要听他讲道。
Footnotes
- 路加福音 21:19 或作：必得生命。
Luke 21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 21
The Poor Widow’s Contribution.[a] 1 (A)When he looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury 2 and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. 3 He said, “I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; 4 for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.”
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold.(B) 5 [b]While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, he said, 6 “All that you see here—the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.”(C)
The Signs of the End. 7 (D)Then they asked him, “Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?” 8 He answered, “See that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time has come.’[c] Do not follow them!(E) 9 When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for such things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end.” 10 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.(F) 11 There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky.
The Coming Persecution. 12 (G)“Before all this happens,[d] however, they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name.(H) 13 It will lead to your giving testimony. 14 Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, 15 (I)for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking[e] that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. 16 (J)You will even be handed over by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death.(K) 17 You will be hated by all because of my name, 18 but not a hair on your head will be destroyed.(L) 19 By your perseverance you will secure your lives.(M)
The Great Tribulation.[f] 20 (N)“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that its desolation is at hand.(O) 21 Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Let those within the city escape from it, and let those in the countryside not enter the city,(P) 22 for these days are the time of punishment when all the scriptures are fulfilled. 23 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for a terrible calamity will come upon the earth and a wrathful judgment upon this people.(Q) 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles[g] are fulfilled.(R)
The Coming of the Son of Man.(S) 25 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay, perplexed by the roaring of the sea and the waves.(T) 26 People will die of fright in anticipation of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens[h] will be shaken.(U) 27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.(V) 28 But when these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.”(W)
The Lesson of the Fig Tree.(X) 29 He taught them a lesson. “Consider the fig tree and all the other trees. 30 When their buds burst open, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near; 31 in the same way, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. 32 Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.(Y) 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.(Z)
Exhortation to Be Vigilant. 34 “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise(AA) 35 like a trap. For that day will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth. 36 Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the tribulations that are imminent and to stand before the Son of Man.”(AB)
Ministry in Jerusalem. 37 During the day, Jesus was teaching in the temple area, but at night he would leave and stay at the place called the Mount of Olives.(AC) 38 And all the people would get up early each morning to listen to him in the temple area.
Footnotes
- 21:1–4 The widow is another example of the poor ones in this gospel whose detachment from material possessions and dependence on God leads to their blessedness (Lk 6:20). Her simple offering provides a striking contrast to the pride and pretentiousness of the scribes denounced in the preceding section (Lk 20:45–47). The story is taken from Mk 12:41–44.
- 21:5–36 Jesus’ eschatological discourse in Luke is inspired by Mk 13 but Luke has made some significant alterations to the words of Jesus found there. Luke maintains, though in a modified form, the belief in the early expectation of the end of the age (see Lk 21:27, 28, 31, 32, 36), but, by focusing attention throughout the gospel on the importance of the day-to-day following of Jesus and by reinterpreting the meaning of some of the signs of the end from Mk 13 he has come to terms with what seemed to the early Christian community to be a delay of the parousia. Mark, for example, described the desecration of the Jerusalem temple by the Romans (Mk 13:14) as the apocalyptic symbol (see Dn 9:27; 12:11) accompanying the end of the age and the coming of the Son of Man. Luke (Lk 21:20–24), however, removes the apocalyptic setting and separates the historical destruction of Jerusalem from the signs of the coming of the Son of Man by a period that he refers to as “the times of the Gentiles” (Lk 21:24). See also notes on Mt 24:1–36 and Mk 13:1–37.
- 21:8 The time has come: in Luke, the proclamation of the imminent end of the age has itself become a false teaching.
- 21:12 Before all this happens…: to Luke and his community, some of the signs of the end just described (Lk 21:10–11) still lie in the future. Now in dealing with the persecution of the disciples (Lk 21:12–19) and the destruction of Jerusalem (Lk 21:20–24) Luke is pointing to eschatological signs that have already been fulfilled.
- 21:15 A wisdom in speaking: literally, “a mouth and wisdom.”
- 21:20–24 The actual destruction of Jerusalem by Rome in A.D. 70 upon which Luke and his community look back provides the assurance that, just as Jesus’ prediction of Jerusalem’s destruction was fulfilled, so too will be his announcement of their final redemption (Lk 21:27–28).
- 21:24 The times of the Gentiles: a period of indeterminate length separating the destruction of Jerusalem from the cosmic signs accompanying the coming of the Son of Man.
- 21:26 The powers of the heavens: the heavenly bodies mentioned in Lk 21:25 and thought of as cosmic armies.
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