我們都知道李奧納多．達文西是文藝復興時期的傑出代表人物。他才華卓越，橫跨多個學術研究和藝術領域，締造了非凡成就。然而，達文西曾在日記中寫道：「我們過著悲慘的日子，哀哉，我們死後不會在人們的腦海中，留下任何關於我們的記憶。」

達文西說：「我以為我一直在學習怎樣活，其實我是在學習怎樣死。」也許他還不知道，這番領悟已接近真理了。唯有經歷死亡，才能得到生命。耶穌光榮地進入耶路撒冷（現今的棕枝主日；參閱約翰福音12章12-19節），過後祂說：「一粒麥子不落在地裡死了，仍舊是一粒；若是死了，就結出許多子粒來」（24節）。耶穌說的這番話是指祂將受死，但也可延伸至我們每一個人，因「愛惜自己生命的，就失喪生命；在這世上恨惡自己生命的，就要保守生命到永生」（25節）。

使徒保羅寫道：「我們藉著洗禮歸入死，和[基督]一同埋葬，原是叫我們一舉一動有新生的樣式，像基督藉著父的榮耀從死裡復活一樣。我們若在祂死的形狀上與祂聯合，也要在祂復活的形狀上與祂聯合。」（羅馬書6章4-5節）

耶穌受死讓我們得以重生，這才是真正最大的復興。耶穌與天父一同開創了這條通往永生的道路。

We know Leonardo da Vinci as the renaissance man. His intellectual prowess led to advances across multiple fields of study and the arts. Yet Leonardo journaled of “these miserable days of ours” and lamented that we die “without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.”

“While I thought I was learning how to live,” said Leonardo, “I was learning how to die.” He was closer to the truth than he may have realized. Learning how to die is the way to life. After Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem (what we now celebrate as Palm Sunday; see John 12:12–19), He said, “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (v. 24). He spoke this about His own death but expanded it to include us all: “Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life” (v. 25).

The apostle Paul wrote of being “buried” with Christ “through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his” (Romans 6:4–5).

Through His death, Jesus offers us rebirth—the very meaning of renaissance. He has forged the way to eternal life with His Father.