Acts 26
1 Then Agrippa sayd vnto Paul, Thou art permitted to speake for thy selfe. So Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himselfe.
亚基帕对保罗说：“准许你为自己辩护。”于是保罗用手臂示意开始了自己的辩护：
2 I thinke my selfe happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answere this day before thee of all the things whereof I am accused of the Iewes.
“亚基帕王，很荣幸今天能就犹太人控告我一事，在你面前进行自我辩护。
3 Chiefly, because thou hast knowledge of all customes, and questions which are among the Iewes: wherefore I beseech thee, to heare me patiently.
尤其是你熟悉犹太人的所有规则和习俗，所以恳请你耐心听取我说的话。
4 As touching my life from my childhood, and what it was from the beginning among mine owne nation at Hierusalem, know all the Iewes,
从我在祖国幼年时期的经历再到耶路撒冷的一切，所有犹太人都知道我的人生道路。
5 Which knewe me heretofore, euen from my elders (if they would testifie) that after the most straite sect of our religion I liued a Pharise.
他们一直以来都很了解我，如果他们肯作证，你就会知道，我一直严格遵循最严格的教派，忠于我的信仰。我按照法利赛人的方式生活。
6 And now I stand and am accused for the hope of the promise made of God vnto our fathers.
现在我之所以站在这里受审，就是因为上帝向祖先们承诺的希望。
7 Whereunto our twelue tribes instantly seruing God day and night, hope to come: for the which hopes sake, O King Agrippa, I am accused of the Iewes.
我们的十二族群始终虔诚地服侍上帝，都是盼望这希望可以实现。是的，国王陛下，犹太人控告我也是因为这希望。
8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible vnto you, that God should raise againe the dead?
为什么你们认为，上帝让死人复活是不可思议的事情呢？
9 I also verely thought in my selfe, that I ought to doe many contrarie things against the Name of Iesus of Nazareth.
我以前也真的相信，自己应该想方设法反对拿撒勒人耶稣之名。
10 Which thing I also did in Hierusalem: for many of the Saints I shut vp in prison, hauing receiued authoritie of the hie Priests, and when they were put to death, I gaue my sentence.
我在耶路撒冷就是这么做的。我在祭司长的授权下，把很多信徒扔进监牢，在他们被杀的时候，我也完全同意。
11 And I punished them throughout all the Synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being more mad against them, I persecuted them, euen vnto strange cities.
我让他们在所有的犹太教堂受到惩罚，试图让他们放弃。 我非常反对他们，我到国外的城市去迫害他们。
12 At which time, euen as I went to Damascus with authoritie, and commission from the hie Priests,
但有一天，我得到祭司长的授权和指令去往大马士革。
13 At midday, O King, I sawe in the way a light from heauen, passing the brightnes of the sunne, shine round about mee, and them which went with me.
国王陛下，就在那天中午，我在路上看见来自天上的一道光，比太阳更明亮，照耀着我和其他同伴。
14 So when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voyce speaking vnto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kicke against pricks.
我们都伏倒在地，然后我听见有声音用希伯来语对我说：‘扫罗啊，扫罗！你为什么迫害我？你是很难对抗我的！’
15 Then I sayd, Who art thou, Lord? And he sayd, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest.
我问到：‘主啊，你是谁？’ 主说：‘我就是你所迫害的耶稣。
16 But rise and stand vp on thy feete: for I haue appeared vnto thee for this purpose, to appoint thee a minister and a witnesse, both of the things which thou hast seene, and of the things in the which I will appeare vnto thee,
但现在起来吧。我之所以要向你显现，是为了指认你为我的仆人，为我见证，告诉其他人你如何看到我，以及我向你显化的一切。
17 Deliuering thee from this people, and from the Gentiles, vnto whom now I send thee,
我要把你从同胞和异教徒那里拯救出来，现在我就派你到他们那里去，
18 To open their eyes, that they may turne from darknes to light, and from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receiue forgiuenes of sinnes, and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by fayth in me.
开启他们的双眼，让他们从黑暗转向光明，从撒旦的控制转向上帝，这样他们的罪恶才会得到赦免，那些因信我而正确行事之人，才会被包含其中。’
19 Wherefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient vnto the heauenly vision,
亚基帕王啊，很显然，我没有违背这来自天堂的异象。
20 But shewed first vnto them of Damascus, and at Hierusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Iudea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turne to God, and doe workes worthy amendment of life.
我先在大马士革、耶路撒冷、犹太全地向众人宣讲这忏悔之道，然后又向异教徒宣讲：关于如何转信上帝，通过行动彰显他们的悔改。
21 For this cause the Iewes caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me.
犹太人就是因此在圣殿中捉拿我，想要杀我。
22 Neuertheles, I obteined helpe of God, and continue vnto this day, witnessing both to small and to great, saying none other things, then those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come,
但我获得了上帝的眷顾，所以今天还能站在众人面前，包括普通百姓和尊贵之人。我所言只是重复了摩西和先知所讲必然发生之事，
23 To wit, that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light vnto this people, and to the Gentiles.
那就是基督必须受难，然后率先死而复生，向犹太人和异教徒宣告上帝的拯救之光。”
24 And as he thus answered for himselfe, Festus said with a loude voyce, Paul, thou art besides thy selfe: much learning doeth make thee mad.
保罗的自我辩护说到这里，非斯都大声说：“保罗！你疯了！你的学问让你疯了！”
25 But he said, I am not mad, O noble Festus, but I speake the wordes of trueth and sobernes.
保罗回答：“非斯都大人，我没有疯，我说的都是真实，都是言之有理。
26 For the King knoweth of these things, before whom also I speake boldly: for I am perswaded that none of these things are hidden from him: for this thing was not done in a corner.
国王意识到了这一点，我只是很坦白地解释而已。我相信他知道到底发生了什么，因为这种事情无法躲躲藏藏。
27 O King Agrippa, beleeuest thou the Prophets? I know that thou beleeuest.
亚基帕王啊，你相信先知所言吗？我知道你信！”
28 Then Agrippa said vnto Paul, Almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian.
亚基帕问保罗说：“你认为自己能这么快就说服我变成基督徒吗？”
29 Then Paul sayd, I would to God that not onely thou, but also all that heare me to day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
保罗回答：“无论时间长短，都没有关系。我不止为你向上帝祈祷，更包括今天希望像我一样的所有听众，只是不应该有这锁链。”
30 And when he had thus spoken, the King rose vp, and the gouernour, and Bernice, and they that sate with them.
亚基帕王、总督、百尼基以及在座的所有人都站起来，然后离开了法庭，
31 And when they were gone apart, they talked betweene themselues, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death, nor of bonds.
召开了一次会议。他们的结论是：“这个人并没有犯下任何应处死或监禁的罪行。”
32 Then sayd Agrippa vnto Festus, This man might haue bene loosed, if hee had not appealed vnto Cesar.
亚基帕对非斯都说：“如果他没有请求向凯撒上诉，就可以释放了。”
