Acts 25
1 Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,
フェスト任國にいたりて三日の後、カイザリヤよりエルサレムに上りたれば、
2 and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews disclosed to him [the things] against Paul, and were calling on him,
祭司長ら及びユダヤ人の重立ちたる者ども、パウロを訴へ之を害はんとして、
3 asking favor against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.
フェストの好意にて彼をエルサレムに召し出されんことを願ふ。斯くして道に待伏し、之を殺さんと思へるなり。
4 Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and is himself about to go forth speedily,
然るにフェスト答へて、パウロのカイザリヤに囚はれ在ることと、己が程なく歸るべき事とを告げ、
5 “Therefore those able among you,” he says, “having come down together, if there be anything in this man—let them accuse him”;
『もし彼に不 善あらんには、汝 等のうち然るべき者ども我とともに下りて訴ふべし』と言ふ。
6 and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the next day having sat on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought;
かくて彼處に八日 十日ばかり居りてカイザリヤに下り、明くる日、審判の座に坐し、命じてパウロを引出さしむ。
7 and he having come, there stood around the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem—many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,
その出で來りし時、エルサレムより下りしユダヤ人ら、これを取圍みて樣々の重き罪を言ひ立てて訴ふれども、證すること能はず。
8 he making defense, [said, ] “Neither in regard to the Law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar—did I commit any sin.”
パウロは辯明して言ふ『我はユダヤ人の律法に對しても、宮に對しても、カイザルに對しても、罪を犯したる事なし』
9 And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favor, answering Paul, said, “Are you willing, having gone up to Jerusalem, to be judged before me there concerning these things?”
フェスト、ユダヤ人の意を迎へんとしてパウロに答へて言ふ『なんぢエルサレムに上り、彼處にて我が前に審かるることを諾ふか』
10 And Paul said, “At the judgment seat of Caesar I am standing, where it is necessary for me to be judged; I did no unrighteousness to Jews, as you also very well know;
パウロ言ふ『我はわが審かるべきカイザルの審判の座の前に立ちをるなり。汝の能く知るごとく、我はユダヤ人を害ひしことなし。
11 for if I am indeed unrighteous, and have done anything worthy of death, I do not deprecate to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favor of me to them; I appeal to Caesar!”
若しも罪を犯して死に當るべき事をなしたらんには、死ぬるを厭はじ。然れど此の人々の訴ふること實ならずば、誰も我を彼らに付すことを得じ、我はカイザルに上訴せん』
12 Then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, “To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you will go.”
ここにフェスト陪席の者と相 議りて答ふ『なんぢカイザルに上訴せんとす、カイザルの許に往くべし』
13 And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea greeting Festus,
數日を經て後、アグリッパ王とベルニケとカイザリヤに到りてフェストの安否を問ふ。
14 and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, “There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,
多くの日 留りゐたれば、フェスト、パウロのことを王に告げて言ふ『ここにペリクスが囚人として遺しおきたる一人の人あり、
15 about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,
我エルサレムに居りしとき、ユダヤ人の祭司長・長老ら之を訴へて罪に定めんことを願ひしが、
16 to whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favor of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defense in regard to the charge laid against [him].
我は答へて、訴へらるる者の未だ訴ふる者の面前にて辯明する機を與へられぬ前に付すは、ロマ人の慣例にあらぬ事を告げたり。
17 They, therefore, having come together—I, making no delay, on the succeeding [day] having sat on the judgment seat, commanded the man to be brought,
この故に彼 等ここに集りたれば、時を延さず次の日 審判の座に坐し、命じてかの者を引出さしむ。
18 concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against [him] no accusation of the things I was thinking of,
訴ふる者かれを圍みて立ちしが、思ひしごとき惡しき事は一つも陳ぶる所なし。
19 but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;
ただ己らの宗教、またはイエスと云ふ者の死にたるを活きたりと、パウロが主張するなどに關する問題のみなれば、
20 and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, asked if he was willing to go on to Jerusalem, and to be judged there concerning these things—
かかる審理には我も當惑せし故、かの人に「なんぢエルサレムに往き彼處にて審かるる事を好むか」と問ひしに、
21 but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I commanded him to be kept until I might send him to Caesar.”
パウロは上訴して皇帝の判決を受けん爲に守られんことを願ひしにより、命じて之をカイザルに送るまで守らせ置けり』
22 And Agrippa said to Festus, “I was also intending to hear the man myself”; and he said, “Tomorrow you will hear him”;
アグリッパ、フェストに言ふ『我もその人に聽かんと欲す』フェスト言ふ『なんぢ明日かれに聽くべし』
23 on the next day, therefore—on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered—Paul was brought forth.
明くる日アグリッパとベルニケと大に威儀を整へてきたり、千卒長ら及び市の重立ちたる者どもと共に訊問所に入りたれば、フェストの命によりてパウロ引出さる。
24 And Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, you see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews dealt with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;
フェスト言ふ『アグリッパ王、竝びに此處に居る凡ての者よ、汝らの見るこの人は、ユダヤの民衆が擧りて生かしおくべきにあらずと呼はりて、エルサレムにても此處にても我に訴へし者なり。
25 and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,
然るに我はその死に當るべき惡しき事を一つだに犯したるを認めねば、彼の自ら皇帝に上訴せんとする隨にその許に送らんと決めたり。
26 concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to [my] lord, for what reason I brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;
而して彼につきて我が主に上書すべき實 情を得ず。この故に汝 等のまへ、特にアグリッパ王よ、なんぢの前に引出し、訊問をなしてのち、上書すべき箇條を得んと思へり。
27 for it seems to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not to also signify the charges against him.”
囚人を送るに訴訟の次第を陳べざるは道理ならずと思ふ故なり』
