頌歌:約翰尼·卡什Johnny Cash 朗讀《 Here Was a Man 世上曾有這麼一個人》。
Here was a man, a man Who was born in a small village The son of a peasant woman He grew up in another small village Until he reached the age of thirty He worked as a carpenter 從前世上有一個人,有這麼一個人 祂誕生在一個小村莊裡 祂是農婦的兒子 在另一個小村莊長大 以當木匠為業 直到祂三十歲
Then for three years He was a traveling minister But he never traveled more Than two hundred miles from Where he was born and Where he did go he usually walked 然後有三年時間 祂週遊傳道 但是祂傳道的路程 離祂的出生地從未超過兩百英里 祂的雙腳走遍遠遠近近
He never held political office He never wrote a book Never bought a home Never had a family He never went to college And he never set foot inside a big city 祂從未進過政壇 祂從未寫過一本書 從未買過房子 從未娶妻生子 祂從未進過高等學府 而且從未涉足大城市
Yes, here was a man 是的,世上曾有這樣的一個人
Though he never did one of the things Usually associated with greatness He had no credentials but himself He had nothing to do with this world Except through the divine purpose That brought him to this world 雖然祂沒有做過任何一件事 在世人眼中是偉人的事 祂沒有顯赫的證書,只有祂自己 祂與這個塵世毫無關連 除了上帝的神聖目的 差祂來到世上
While he was still a young man The tide of popular opinion turned against him Most of his friends ran away One of them denied him One of them betrayed him And turned him over to his enemies Then he went through the mockery of a trial, 當祂還年輕的時候 輿論的浪潮反對祂 大多數朋友都離祂而去 其中一位朋友不認祂 一位朋友出賣祂 把祂交給祂的敵人 然後祂經歷了一場假冒虛偽的審判
And was nailed to a cross between two thieves And even while he was dying His executioners gambled For the only piece of property That he had in this world And that was his robe his purple robe 最終被釘在兩個小偷之間的十字架上 即使祂快要斷氣時 祂的劊子手在賭博 以祂身穿的衣物為賭注 那是祂在世上僅有的財產 是祂的外袍,祂的紫色長袍
When he was dead He was taken down from the cross And laid in a borrowed grave Provided by compassionate friends More than nineteen centuries have come and gone And today he's a centerpiece of the human race Our leader in the column to human destiny 祂斷氣後 朋友從十字架上取下祂的身體 放在借來的墳墓里 慈心的朋友以自己的新墳埋葬祂 超過十九個世紀的歲月流轉 今天,祂已成為人類歷史的中心人物 帶領我們,列隊邁向天國的義路
I think, I'm well within the mark when I say That all of the armies that ever marched All of the navies that ever sailed the seas All of the legislative bodies that ever sat And all of the kings that ever reigned All of them put together have not affected The life of man on this earth So powerfully as that one solitary life 我想,我對這人的評價是正確的 若把行軍萬里的每一個部隊 加上遍跡深海大洋的海軍艦隊 加上歷來各堂呼赫風雲的議會 以及曾經統治過世界的所有帝王 集合一切的軍力、帝權、法制, 綜合他們對世人所有的影響 還不及祂單獨一人 在世人生命中造成的改變