约三34 神所差来的，就说神的话，因为祂赐那灵是没有限量的。

　　　八28 ……我不从自己作什么；我说这些话，乃是照着父所教训我的。

　　启十九13 ……祂的名称为神的话。

　　〔申命记十八章十八节〕指明神要借着基督的成为肉体，兴起这位申言者讲说神的话（约一14，三34，七16~17，来一2上）。主耶稣来的时候，祂的确讲说神的话。讲说神的话，乃是分赐神，把神说到人里面。这就是神所兴起的申言者主耶稣所作的（申命记生命读经，一六六页）。

　　John 3:34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for He gives the Spirit not by measure.

　　8:28 …I do nothing from Myself, but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things.

　　Rev. 19:13 …His name is called the Word of God.

　　[Deuteronomy 18:18] indicates that God would raise up this Prophet through the incarnation of Christ to speak the word of God (John 1:14; 3:34; 7:16-17; Heb. 1:2a). When the Lord Jesus came, He surely spoke God’s word. To speak God’s word is to dispense God, to speak God forth into others. This is what the Lord Jesus did as the Prophet raised up by God. (Life-study of Deuteronomy, p. 141)

　　主耶稣在地上的职事里绝不说自己的话。凡祂所说的，就是父所说的。在一个场合中祂说，“我的教训不是我自己的，乃是那差我来者的。”（约七16）主不从自己说话，祂不寻求自己的荣耀，乃寻求差祂来者的荣耀（18）。祂不说自己的话，乃是说神。祂说神的话时，神就借着祂所说的从祂出来。祂过着说神的生活，就是为着神的荣耀彰显神的生活。

　　在约翰十二章四十九至五十节主耶稣说，“我所讲的没有出于自己的；唯有差我来的父，已经给了我命令，叫我说什么，讲什么。我也知道祂的命令就是永远的生命。所以我所讲的，乃是父怎样告诉我，我就照样讲。”这清楚启示主在祂的职事里说父的话。尤其父所给祂，叫祂讲说的命令，就是永远的生命。所以，祂带着活的话来，凡接受祂话的，必得着永远的生命。

　　在十四章十节主耶稣继续说，“我对你们所说的话，不是我从自己说的，乃是住在我里面的父作祂自己的事。”主又指明祂不是说自己的话，乃是说父的话。子这样说话时，父就在作事。子说话就是父作事。

　　主耶稣在祂的职事里向门徒启示父。马太十一章二十七节说，“除了父，没有人认识子；除了子和子所愿意启示的，也没有人认识父。”这指明要认识父需要子的启示。二十七节的“愿意”，原文指经过商议而审慎的定意；主将父启示给门徒，乃是如此定意。

　　主耶稣在钉十字架以前向父祷告说，“你从世上赐给我的人，我已将你的名显明与他们。”（约十七6）这里所指的名就是父的名。旧约已经把“神”与“耶和华”的名充分启示给人，却没有把父的名启示出来，只有以赛亚九章六节，六十三章十六节，六十四章八节，稍微提到这名。在旧约时代，神的子民主要认识神是伊罗欣（Elohim），就是神，以及耶和华，就是自有永有者，但他们对父的名称认识不多。神是祂为着创造的名，耶和华是祂为着自己与人之关系的名。然后，子在父的名里来，在父的名里行事（约五43，十25），要将父显明与父所赐给祂的人，并叫他们认识父的名；这名启示父是生命的源头（五26），使生命繁殖并扩增；许多儿子要从父而生（一12~13），以彰显父。因此，父的名与神圣的生命有密切的关系（新约总论第三册，二四六至二四九页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第二十二、六十九、九十篇；真理课程三级卷二，第三十课。

　　In His earthly ministry the Lord Jesus never spoke His own word. Whatever He spoke was the Father’s speaking. On one occasion He said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me” (John 7:16). In not speaking from Himself the Lord did not seek His own glory but the glory of the One who sent Him (v. 18). Instead of speaking His own words, He spoke God. When He spoke God’s word, God was expressed through His speaking. God came forth from Him through His words. He lived a life of speaking God, a life of expressing God for His glory.

　　In John 12:49 and 50 the Lord Jesus says, “I have not spoken from Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He Himself has given Me commandment, what to say and what to speak. And I know that His commandment is eternal life. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.” This clearly reveals that in His ministry the Lord spoke the Father’s word. In particular, the commandment that the Father gave Him to speak was eternal life. Therefore, He came with living words, and whoever receives His words will have eternal life.

　　In John 14:10 the Lord Jesus goes on to say, “The words that I say to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works.” Once again the Lord makes it clear that He did not speak His own word but the Father’s word. While the Son was speaking in this way, the Father was working. The Son’s speaking was the Father’s working.

　　In His ministry the Lord Jesus revealed the Father to the disciples. Matthew 11:27 says, “No one fully knows the Son except the Father; neither does anyone fully know the Father except the Son and him to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” This indicates that to know the Father requires the Son’s revelation. The Greek word for wills in verse 27 means to deliberately exercise the will through counsel. This the Lord did in revealing the Father to the disciples.

　　In His prayer to the Father before His crucifixion the Lord Jesus said, “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world” (John 17:6). The name referred to here is the name Father. The names “God” and “Jehovah” were adequately revealed to man in the Old Testament, but not the name Father, though it is mentioned in Isaiah 9:6; 63:16; and 64:8. In Old Testament times God’s people mainly knew that God was Elohim, that is, God, and Jehovah, that is, the ever-existing One, but they did not know much about the title Father. God is His name for creation, and Jehovah is His name for the relationship between Himself and man. Eventually, the Son came and worked in the Father’s name (John 5:43; 10:25) to manifest the Father to the ones whom the Father gave Him and to make the Father’s name known to them, the name which reveals the Father as the source of life (5:26) for the propagation and multiplication of life, of whom many sons are born (1:12-13) to express the Father. Hence, the Father’s name is very much related to the divine life. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 743-746)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 22, 69, 90; Truth Lessons—Level Three, vol. 2, lsn. 30