Acts 19
1 And it came to pass, in Apollos being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,
かくてアポロ、コリントに居りし時、パウロ東の地方を經てエペソに到り、或 弟子たちに逢ひて、
2 he said to them, “Having believed, did you receive the Holy Spirit?” And they said to him, “But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit”;
『なんぢら信者となりしとき聖 靈を受けしか』と言ひたれば、彼 等いふ『いな、我らは聖 靈の有ることすら聞かず』
3 and he said to them, “Into what, then, were you immersed?” And they said, “Into John’s immersion.”
パウロ言ふ『されば何によりてバプテスマを受けしか』彼 等いふ『ヨハネのバプテスマなり』
4 And Paul said, “John, indeed, immersed with an immersion of conversion, saying to the people that they should believe in Him who is coming after him—that is, in the Christ—Jesus”;
パウロ言ふ『ヨハネは悔改のバプテスマを授けて、己に後れて來るもの（即ちイエス）を信ずべきことを民に云へるなり』
5 and they, having heard, were immersed into the Name of the Lord Jesus,
彼 等これを聞きて主イエスの名によりてバプテスマを受く。
6 and Paul having laid [his] hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, they were also speaking with tongues, and prophesying,
パウロ手を彼らの上に按きしとき、聖 靈その上に望みたれば、彼ら異言を語り、かつ預言せり。
7 and all the men were, as it were, twelve.
この人々は凡て十二 人ほどなり。
8 And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the Kingdom of God,
ここにパウロ會堂に入りて、三个月のあひだ臆せずして神の國に就きて論じ、かつ勸めたり。
9 and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of The Way before the multitude, having departed from them, he separated the disciples, reasoning every day in the school of a certain Tyrannus.
然るに或 者ども頑固になりて從はず、會衆の前に神の道を譏りたれば、パウロ彼らを離れ、弟子たちをも退かしめ、日毎にツラノの會堂にて論ず。
10 And this happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks,
斯くすること二年の間なりしかば、アジヤに住む者は、ユダヤ人もギリシヤ人もみな主の言を聞けり。
11 also mighty works—not common—God was working through the hands of Paul,
而して神はパウロの手によりて尋常ならぬ能力ある業を行ひたまふ。
12 so that even to the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.
即ち人々かれの身より或は手拭あるひは前垂をとりて病める者に著くれば、病は去り惡 靈は出でたり。
13 And certain of the wandering exorcist Jews, took on [them] to name over those having the evil spirits the Name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preaches”;
ここに諸國 遍歴の咒文 師なるユダヤ人 數人あり、試みに惡 靈に憑かれたる者に對して、主イエスの名を呼び『われパウロの宣ぶるイエスによりて、汝らに命ず』と言へり。
14 and there were certain—seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest—who are doing this thing;
斯くなせる者の中に、ユダヤの祭司長スケワの七人の子もありき。
15 and the evil spirit, answering, said, “I know Jesus, and I am acquainted with Paul; and you—who are you?”
惡 靈こたへて言ふ『われイエスを知り、又パウロを知る。然れど汝らは誰ぞ』
16 And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping on them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that they fled naked and wounded out of that house,
かくて惡 靈の入りたる人、かれらに跳びかかりて二人に勝ち、これを打拉ぎたれば、彼ら裸體になり傷を受けてその家を逃げ出でたり。
17 and this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who are dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the Name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified;
此の事エペソに住む凡てのユダヤ人とギリシヤ人とに知れたれば、懼かれら一同のあひだに生じ、主イエスの名 崇めらる。
18 many also of those who believed were coming, confessing and declaring their acts,
信者となりし者おほく來り、懴悔して自らの行爲を告ぐ。
19 and many of those who had practiced the superfluous arts, having brought the scrolls together, were burning [them] before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found [it] fifty thousand pieces of silver,
また魔術を行ひし多くの者ども、その書物を持ちきたり、衆人の前にて焚きたるが、其の價を算ふれば銀 五 萬ほどなりき。
20 so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing.
主の言、大に弘りて權力を得しこと斯くの如し。
21 And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying, “After my being there, it is also necessary for me to see Rome”;
此 等の事のありし後、パウロ、マケドニヤ、アカヤを經てエルサレムに往かんと心を決めて言ふ『われ彼處に到りてのち必ずロマをも見るべし』
22 and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him—Timotheus and Erastus—he himself stayed a time in Asia.
かくて己に事ふる者の中にてテモテとエラストとの二人をマケドニヤに遣し、自己はアジヤに暫く留る。
23 And there came, at that time, not a little stir about The Way,
その頃この道に就きて一方ならぬ騷擾おこれり。
24 for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the craftsmen not a little gain,
デメテリオと云ふ銀 細工人ありしが、アルテミスの銀の小宮を造りて細工人らに多くの業を得させたり。
25 whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who worked around such things, he said, “Men, you know that by this work we have our wealth;
それらの者および同じ類の職業 者を集めて言ふ『人々よ、われらが此の業に頼りて利 益を得ることは、汝らの知る所なり。
26 and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, turned away a great multitude, saying that they who are made by hands are not gods;
然るに、かのパウロは手にて造れる物は神にあらずと云ひて、唯にエペソのみならず、殆ど全アジヤにわたり、多くの人々を説き勸めて惑したり、これ亦なんぢらの見 聞する所なり。
27 and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis, the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world worships.”
かくては啻に我らの職業の輕しめらるる恐あるのみならず、また大女神アルテミスの宮も蔑せられ、全アジヤ全世界のをがむ大女神の稜威も滅ぶるに至らん』
28 And having heard, and having become full of wrath, they were crying out, saying, “Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!”
彼 等これを聞きて憤恚に滿され、叫びて言ふ『大なる哉、エペソ人のアルテミス』
29 And the whole city was filled with confusion; they rushed also with one accord into the theater, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s fellow-travelers.
かくて町 擧りて騷ぎ立ち、人々パウロの同行 者なるマケドニヤ人ガイオとアリスタルコとを捕へ、心を一つにして劇場に押入りたり。
30 And on Paul’s resolving to enter in to the populace, the disciples were not permitting him,
パウロ集民のなかに入らんとしたれど、弟子たち許さず。
31 and also some of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent to him, were pleading [with] him not to venture into the theater himself.
又アジヤの祭の司のうちの或 者どもも彼と親しかりしかば、人を遣して劇場に入らぬやうにと勸めたり。
32 Some indeed, therefore, were calling out one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they had come together;
ここに會衆おほいに亂れ、大方はその何のために集りたるかを知らずして、或 者はこの事を、或 者はかの事を叫びたり。
33 and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander—the Jews thrusting him forward—and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defense to the populace,
遂に群衆の或 者ども、ユダヤ人の推し出したるアレキサンデルに勸めたれば、かれ手を搖かして集民に辯明をなさんとすれど、
34 and having known that he is a Jew, one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying, “Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!”
其のユダヤ人たるを知り、みな同音に『おほいなる哉、エペソ人のアルテミス』と呼はりて二 時間ばかりに及ぶ。
35 And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, says, “Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?
時に書記役、群衆を鎭めおきて言ふ『さてエペソ人よ、誰かエペソの町が大女神アルテミス及び天より降りし像の宮守なることを知らざる者あらんや。
36 These things, then, being undeniable, it is necessary for you to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
これは言ひ消し難きことなれば、なんぢら靜なるべし、妄なる事を爲すべからず。
37 For you brought these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor slandering of your goddess;
この人々は宮の物を盜む者にあらず、我らの女 神を謗る者にもあらず、然るに汝ら之を曳き來れり。
38 if indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a matter with anyone, court [days] are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.
もしデメテリオ及び偕にをる細工人ら、人に就きて訴ふべき事あらば、裁判の日あり、かつ司あり、彼 等おのおの訴ふべし。
39 And if you seek after anything concerning other matters, it will be determined in the legal assembly;
もし又ほかの事につきて議する所あらば、正式の議會にて決すべし。
40 for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we will be able to give an account of this concourse”;
我ら今日の騷擾につきては、何の理由もなきにより咎を受くる恐あり。この會合につきて言ひひらくこと能はねばなり』
41 and having said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
斯く言ひて集會を散じたり。
