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耶稣在星期五受难，祂在随后的星期日死里复活。圣经记载了很多在这两天发生的事，今天我们分别称这两天为受难日和复活主日。然而，在这两天中间的星期六，是怎样的呢？圣经却几乎没有提及。

我们感到好奇，在星期六这天，有什么事发生在耶稣身上呢？祂已经死了，祂的尸体躺在石坟墓里，我们可能假设，当时祂的灵魂正在天上或在天堂与神一起，因为在十字架上濒临死亡时，耶稣曾经发出过这样的暗示。（参路 23:43、46）此外，圣经再没有告诉我们其他相关的事情了。

在星期六，当耶稣死去的身体躺卧着时，祂的灵魂是否有意识、甚至是有知觉的呢？我很想知道，诗篇十三篇的话有没有在祂脑海中浮现出来，就好像祂在说：“父啊，如果祢不开我的眼睛，我便会永远在死亡中睡着！如果祢不开我的眼睛，我的敌人便会得胜了！”

然而，这篇诗篇并未就此结束，它接着把重点转移到神的慈爱和救恩上。耶稣的灵是否说：“但我倚靠祢的慈爱”呢？在星期日早上，当黑暗向光明投降时，耶稣是否以这篇诗篇中另外的诗句：“我的心因祢的救恩快乐”，（参诗 13:5）来赞美祂的父呢？

或许耶稣把更深入的意思赋予这篇诗篇，超过我们所能想像的。

Jesus was put to death on a Friday. And he rose from the dead on the following Sunday. The Bible tells us quite a bit about those two days, which we now call Good Friday and Easter Sunday. But what about the in-between day, Holy Saturday? The Bible says next to nothing about it.

That leaves us to wonder. What was going on with Jesus on Saturday? He was dead. His lifeless body lay in a stone tomb. We tend to assume that his spirit was now with God in heaven, or paradise, as Jesus implied while he was dying on the cross (Luke 23:43, 46). But we aren't told anything more.

On Saturday, while Jesus' body lay dead, was his spirit aware, even alert? I wonder if Psalm 13 drifted through his mind, as if to say, "Father, if you don't open my eyes, I will sleep forever in death! If you don't open my eyes, my enemies will have won!"

But the psalm doesn't end there. It turns to focus on God's love and salvation. Did Jesus' spirit then also say, "But I trust in your unfailing love"? And as darkness surrendered to light on Sunday morning, did Jesus praise his Father with more words from this psalm: "My heart rejoices in your salvation"?

Maybe Jesus gives more meaning to this psalm than we have realized.