Acts 17
1 When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
かくてアムピポリス及びアポロニヤを經てテサロニケに到る。此處にユダヤ人の會堂ありたれば、
2 As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
パウロは例のごとく彼らの中に入り、三つの安息 日にわたり、聖書に基きて論じ、かつ解き明して、
3 explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.
キリストの必ず苦難をうけ、死人の中より甦へるべきことを述べ『わが汝らに傳ふる此のイエスはキリストなり』と證せり。
4 Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.
その中のある人々および敬虔なる數多のギリシヤ人、また多くの重立ちたる女も信じてパウロとシラスとに從へり。
5 The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
ここにユダヤ人ら嫉を起して市の無頼者をかたらひ、群衆を集めて町を騷がし、又ふたりを集民の前に曳き出さんとしてヤソンの家を圍みしが、
6 But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,
見出さざれば、ヤソンと數人の兄弟とを町 司たちの前に曳ききたり、呼はりて言ふ『天下を顛覆したる彼の者ども此處にまで來れるを、
7 and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, named Jesus!”
ヤソン迎へ入れたり。この曹輩は皆カイザルの詔勅にそむき、他にイエスと云ふ王ありと言ふ』
8 On hearing this, the crowd and city officials were greatly disturbed.
之をききて群衆と町 司たちと心をさわがし、
9 And they collected bond from Jason and the others, and then released them.
保證を取りてヤソンと他の人々とを釋せり。
10 As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
兄弟たち直ちに夜の間にパウロとシラスとをベレヤに送りいだす。二人は彼處につきてユダヤ人の會堂にいたる。
11 Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
此處の人々はテサロニケに居る人よりも善良にして、心より御言をうけ、この事 正しく然るか然らぬか、日々 聖書をしらぶ。
12 As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.
この故にその中の多くのもの信じたり、又ギリシヤの貴女、男子にして信じたる者も少からざりき。
13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
然るにテサロニケのユダヤ人ら、パウロがベレヤにも神の言を傳ふることを聞きたれば、此處にも來りて群衆を動かし、かつ騷がしたり。
14 The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
ここに兄弟たち直ちにパウロを送り出して海邊に往かしめ、シラスとテモテとは尚ベレヤに留れり。
15 Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
パウロを導ける人々はアテネまで伴ひ往き、パウロよりシラスとテモテとに、疾く我に來れとの命を受けて立ち去れり。
16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
パウロ、アテネにて彼らを待ちをる間に、町に偶像の滿ちたるを見て、その心に憤慨を懷く。
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace with those he met each day.
されば會堂にてはユダヤ人および敬虔なる人々と論じ、市場にては日々 逢ふところの者と論じたり。
18 Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
斯てエピクロス派ならびにストア派の哲學者 數人これと論じあひ、或 者らは言ふ『この囀る者なにを言はんとするか』或 者らは言ふ『かれは異なる神々を傳ふる者の如し』是はパウロがイエスと復活とを宣べたる故なり。
19 So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
遂にパウロをアレオパゴスに連れ往きて言ふ『なんぢが語るこの新しき教の如何なるものなるを、我ら知り得べきか。
20 For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
なんぢ異なる事を我らの耳に入るるが故に、我らその何事たるを知らんと思ふなり』
21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
アテネ人も、彼處に住む旅人も、皆ただ新しき事を或は語り、或は聞きてのみ日を送りゐたり。
22 Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.
パウロ、アレオパゴスの中に立ちて言ふ『アテネ人よ、我すべての事に就きて汝らが神々を敬ふ心の篤きを見る。
23 For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
われ汝らが拜むものを見つつ道を過ぐるほどに「知らざる神に」と記したる一つの祭壇を見出したり。然れば我なんぢらが知らずして拜む所のものを汝らに示さん。
24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.
世界とその中のあらゆる物とを造り給ひし神は、天 地の主にましませば、手にて造れる宮に住み給はず。
25 Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
みづから凡ての人に生命と息と萬の物とを與へ給へば、物に乏しき所あるが如く、人の手にて事ふることを要し給はず。
26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
一人よりして諸種の國人を造りいだし、之を地の全面に住ましめ、時期の限と住居の界とを定め給へり。
27 God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
これ人をして神を尋ねしめ、或は探りて見 出す事あらしめん爲なり。されど神は我等おのおのを離れ給ふこと遠からず、
28 ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
我らは神の中に生き、動きまた在るなり。汝らの詩人の中の或 者どもも「我らは又その裔なり」と云へる如し。
29 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
かく神の裔なれば、神を金・銀・石など人の工と思考とにて刻める物と等しく思ふべきにあらず。
30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
神はかかる無知の時代を見 過しにし給ひしが、今は何處にても凡ての人に悔改むべきことを告げたまふ。
31 For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
曩に立て給ひし一人によりて、義をもて世界を審かんために日をさだめ、彼を死人の中より甦へらせて保證を萬人に與へ給へり』
32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
人々、死人の復活をききて、或 者は嘲笑ひしが、或 者は『われら復この事を汝に聞かん』と言へり。
33 At that, Paul left the Areopagus.
ここにパウロ人々のなかを出で去る。
34 But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.
されど彼に附隨ひて信じたるもの數人あり。其の中にアレオパゴスの裁判人デオヌシオ及びダマリスと名づくる女あり、尚その他にもありき。
