Acts 23
1 And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.
パウロ議員の方を熟視めて云ひけるは、兄弟たる人々よ、我今日に至るまで、良心を盡して神の御前に事へたり、と。
2 But the high priest Ananias ordered those standing by him to smite his mouth.
是に於て司祭長アナニア、立添へる人々に、パウロの口を打てと命ぜしかば、
3 Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall. And thou, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?
パウロ之に謂ひけるは、白塗の壁よ、神は汝を打ち給はん、汝律法の儘に我を審かんとて坐しながら、律法に反して命じて我を打たしむるか、と。
4 And those that stood by said, Dost thou rail against the high priest of God?
立會へる人々、汝神の大司祭を詛ふや、と云ひしに、
5 And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evilly of the ruler of thy people.
パウロ云ひけるは、兄弟等よ、我其大司祭なる事を知らざりき。蓋録して「汝が民の君を詛ふこと勿れ」とあり、と。
6 But Paul, knowing that the one part [of them] were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.
パウロ議員の一部はサドカイ人なるに、一部はファリザイ人なる事を知りて、議會に呼はりけるは、兄弟たる人々よ、我はファリザイ人の子にして、ファリザイ人なるが、死人の復活の希望の為に裁判せらるるなり、と。
7 And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.
斯く云ひしかば、ファリザイ人とサドカイ人との間に激論起りて、會衆分裂せり。
8 For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.
其はサドカイ人は復活も天使も霊も無しと言ふを、ファリザイ人は孰れも有りと主張すればなり。
9 And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel...
然て凄じき叫喚となりて、ファリザイ人中の或者等立争ひて云ひけるは、我等此人に何等の惡をも認めず、若霊又は天使ありて彼に語りたらんには如何、とて、
10 And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and to bring [him] into the fortress.
激しき争ひとなりしかば、千夫長パウロが彼等に引裂かれん事を恐れて、兵卒に命じ、下りて彼等の中よりパウロを奪取り、営内に牽入れしめたり。
11 But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome also.
次夜、主忽ちパウロの傍に現れて曰ひけるは、励め、蓋エルザレムに於て我を證したるが如く、ロマに於ても證せざるべからず、と。
12 And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
夜明けて、或ユデア人等相集り、誓ひてパウロを殺すまでは飲食すまじと言へり。
13 And they were more than forty who had joined together in this oath;
此企に與りし者四十人以上なりしが、
14 and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.
司祭長と長老等との許に至りて云ひけるは、我等大願を立てて、パウロを殺すまでは何をも口に入れじと誓へり。
15 Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.
然れば、パウロの事情を尚詳しく知らんとする如くにして、彼を汝等の前に出頭せしむる様、千夫長に報知せよ、我等其近づかざる中に之を殺さんと覚悟せり、と。
16 But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported [it] to Paul.
パウロが姉妹の子、此惡計を聞きて、行きて兵営の内に入りパウロに之を告げしかば、
17 And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to him.
パウロ一人の百夫長を呼びて云ひけるは、請ふ此青年を千夫長の許に携へ往け、其は彼に告ぐべき事あればなり、と。
18 He therefore, having taken him with [him], led him to the chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to [him] and asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say to thee.
百夫長携へて之を千夫長の許に導き、然て云ひけるは、囚人パウロ我に請ふに、汝に語るべき事ある此青年を汝の許に導かん事を以てせり、と。
19 And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to report to me?
千夫長青年の手を取りて別所に連行き、我に語るべき事とは何事ぞ、と問ひしかば、
20 And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow into the council, as about to inquire something more precise concerning him.
彼云ひけるは、ユデア人申合せて、パウロの事情を尚確に尋問せんとする如くにして、明日パウロを議會に出頭せしめん事を汝に申出でんとす、
21 Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.
然れど彼等を信ずること勿れ、其は彼等の中四十人以上の者等、彼を殺すまでは飲食せずと誓ひ、今既に準備して、汝の約束を待ちつつあればなり、と。
22 The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding [him], Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.
千夫長、此事を我に告げたりと誰にも語ること勿れ、と戒めて青年を返し、
23 And having called to [him] certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.
然て二人の百夫長を呼びて云ひけるは、汝等カイザリアに向けて、兵卒二百人、騎兵七十人、槍持二百人を夜の九時より仕立てさせ、
24 And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the governor,
又馬を備へてパウロを乗らしめ、無事に総督フェリクスの許へ伴ひ行かしめよ、と。
25 having written a letter, couched in this form:
是ユデア人がパウロを捕へて殺す事あらば、己賄賂を受けたる如く、後に至りて讒訴せられん事を恐れし故なり。
26 Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix, greeting.
然て書添へたる書簡の文左の如し、
27 This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out [of their hands], having learned that he was a Roman.
クロウヂオ、ルジア、最尊き総督フェリクスに挨拶す。此人ユデア人に捕へられて既に殺されんとせしを、我其ロマ人たる事を聞き、軍隊を牽往きて救出したるが、
28 And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;
彼等の之を咎むる所以を知らんと欲して、之を其議會に召連れたるに、
29 whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him [making him] worthy of death or of bonds.
我は其訴へらるる所が彼等の律法に関する問題たるを認めて、聊も死刑若くは入獄に當る罪あるを認めず、
30 But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man [by the Jews], I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. [Farewell.]
加之彼等之を害せんとする企ありと告げられたれば、之を汝の許に送り、告訴人にも、汝の法廷に起訴せよ、と告示せり、汝健康なれ、と。
31 The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,
然れば兵卒等は命令に從ひ、パウロを携へて夜中にアンチパトリに連行き、
32 and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with him, returned to the fortress.
明日は騎兵を殘して之に伴はしめ、然て己等は兵営に返りしが、
33 And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.
騎兵はカイザリアに至り、総督に添書を渡して、パウロをも其前に立たしめたり。
34 And having read [it], and asked of what eparchy he was, and learned that [he was] of Cilicia,
総督添書を読みて、本國は何國ぞ、と問ひ、其シリシア州なる由を聞きしかば、
35 he said, I will hear thee fully when thine accusers also are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's praetorium.
汝の告訴人來りて後汝に聞くべし、と云ひて、命じてパウロをヘロデの邸内に護らしめたり。
