Acts 13
1 Among [the people in] the congregation at Antioch there were (prophets/those who spoke messages from God) and those who taught [people about Jesus. They were] Barnabas; Simeon, who was also called Niger/Blackman; Lucius, from Cyrene [city]; Manaen, who had grown up with [King] Herod [Antipas]; and Saul.
さて、アンテオケにある教会には、バルナバ、ニゲルと呼ばれるシメオン、クレネ人ルキオ、領主ヘロデの乳兄弟マナエン、およびサウロなどの預言者や教師がいた。
2 While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said [to them], “Appoint Barnabas and Saul to [serve] me and to [go and do] the work that I have chosen them [to do]!”
一同が主に礼拝をささげ、断食をしていると、聖霊が「さあ、バルナバとサウロとを、わたしのために聖別して、彼らに授けておいた仕事に当らせなさい」と告げた。
3 So they continued (to fast/to abstain from eating food) and pray. Then having put their hands on Barnabas and Saul and [praying that God would help them], they sent them off [to do what the Holy Spirit had commanded].
そこで一同は、断食と祈とをして、手をふたりの上においた後、出発させた。
4 Barnabas and Saul, guided by the Holy Spirit, went down [from Antioch] to Seleucia [port]. From there they went by ship to Salamis [port on Cyprus Island].
ふたりは聖霊に送り出されて、セルキヤにくだり、そこから舟でクプロに渡った。
5 While they were in Salamis, [they went] to the Jewish meeting places. There they proclaimed the message from God [about Jesus]. John [Mark went with them and] was helping them.
そしてサラミスに着くと、ユダヤ人の諸会堂で神の言を宣べはじめた。彼らはヨハネを助け手として連れていた。
6 [The three of] them went across the entire island to Paphos [city]. There they met a magician whose name was Bar-Jesus. He was a Jew who falsely [claimed] (to be a prophet/to speak messages from God).
島全体を巡回して、パポスまで行ったところ、そこでユダヤ人の魔術師、バルイエスというにせ預言者に出会った。
7 He often accompanied the governor [of the island], Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor sent [someone] to ask Barnabas and Saul to come to him, because he wanted to hear God’s message. [So Barnabas and Saul came and told him about Jesus].
彼は地方総督セルギオ・パウロのところに出入りをしていた。この総督は賢明な人であって、バルナバとサウロとを招いて、神の言を聞こうとした。
8 However, the magician, whose name was Elymas [in the Greek language], was opposing them. He repeatedly tried to persuade the governor not to believe [in Jesus].
ところが魔術師エルマ（彼の名は「魔術師」との意）は、総督を信仰からそらそうとして、しきりにふたりの邪魔をした。
9 Then Saul, who now called himself Paul, empowered by the Holy Spirit, looked intently at the magician and said,
サウロ、またの名はパウロ、は聖霊に満たされ、彼をにらみつけて
10 “You [(sg)] are serving the devil and you oppose everything that is good! You are always lying [to people] and doing [other] evil things to them. (You must stop saying that the truth about the Lord [God is a lot of lies!]/When will you stop changing what is true about the Lord [God and saying] what is not true about him?) [RHQ]
言った、「ああ、あらゆる偽りと邪悪とでかたまっている悪魔の子よ、すべて正しいものの敵よ。主のまっすぐな道を曲げることを止めないのか。
11 Right now the Lord [God] [MTY] is going to punish you! You will become blind and not [even] be able to see light for [some] time.” At once he became [blind, as though he was] in a dark mist, and he groped about, searching for someone [to hold him by the] hand and lead him.
見よ、主のみ手がおまえの上に及んでいる。おまえは盲になって、当分、日の光が見えなくなるのだ」。たちまち、かすみとやみとが彼にかかったため、彼は手さぐりしながら、手を引いてくれる人を捜しまわった。
12 When the governor saw what had happened [to Elymas], he believed [in the Lord Jesus]. He was amazed by [what Paul and Barnabas] were teaching about the Lord [Jesus].
総督はこの出来事を見て、主の教にすっかり驚き、そして信じた。
13 [After that], Paul and the two men with him went by ship from Paphos to Perga [port] in Pamphylia [province. At Perga] John [Mark] left them and returned to [his home in] Jerusalem.
パウロとその一行は、パポスから船出して、パンフリヤのペルガに渡った。ここでヨハネは一行から身を引いて、エルサレムに帰ってしまった。
14 Then Paul and Barnabas traveled [by land] from Perga, and arrived in Antioch [city] near Pisidia [district in Galatia province]. (On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day) they entered the synagogue/the Jewish meeting place and sat down.
しかしふたりは、ペルガからさらに進んで、ピシデヤのアンテオケに行き、安息日に会堂にはいって席に着いた。
15 [Someone] read [aloud] from what [Moses had written. Then someone read from what the other] prophets [had written] [MTY]. Then the leaders of the Jewish meeting place gave [someone this] note [to take] to Paul and Barnabas: “Fellow Jews, if [one of] you wants to speak to the people [here] to encourage them, please speak [to us(exc) now].”
律法と預言書の朗読があったのち、会堂司たちが彼らのところに人をつかわして、「兄弟たちよ、もしあなたがたのうち、どなたか、この人々に何か奨励の言葉がありましたら、どうぞお話し下さい」と言わせた。
16 So Paul stood up and motioned with his right hand [so that the people would listen to him]. Then he said, “Fellow Israelis and you [non-Jewish people] who [also] worship God, [please] listen [to me]!
そこでパウロが立ちあがり、手を振りながら言った。「イスラエルの人たち、ならびに神を敬うかたがたよ、お聞き下さい。
17 God, whom we [(inc)] Israelis worship, chose our ancestors [to be his people], and he caused them to become very numerous while they were foreigners living in Egypt. [Then after many years], God helped them [MTY] powerfully and led them out of there.
この民イスラエルの神は、わたしたちの先祖を選び、エジプトの地に滞在中、この民を大いなるものとし、み腕を高くさし上げて、彼らをその地から導き出された。
18 [Even though they repeatedly disobeyed him, he] cared for them for about 40 years [while they were] in the desert.
そして約四十年にわたって、荒野で彼らをはぐくみ、
19 He [enabled the Israelis] to conquer seven tribal groups [who were then living] in Canaan [region], and he gave their land to us Israelis for us to possess.
カナンの地では七つの異民族を打ち滅ぼし、その地を彼らに譲り与えられた。
20 [Our ancestors began to possess Canaan] about 450 years after [their ancestors had arrived in Egypt].” Acts 13:20b-22 “After that, God appointed leaders [to rule the Israeli people. Those leaders continued to rule our people] until the time when the prophet Samuel [ruled them].
それらのことが約四百五十年の年月にわたった。その後、神はさばき人たちをおつかわしになり、預言者サムエルの時に及んだ。
21 Then, [while Samuel was still their leader], the people demanded that he [appoint] a king [to rule them. So] God appointed Saul, the son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, [to be their king]. He [ruled them] for 40 years.
その時、人々が王を要求したので、神はベニヤミン族の人、キスの子サウロを四十年間、彼らにおつかわしになった。
22 After God had rejected Saul [from being king], he appointed David to be their king. God said about him, ‘I have observed that David, son of Jesse, is exactly the kind of man that I desire [IDM]. He will do [everything that] I want [him to do].’”
それから神はサウロを退け、ダビデを立てて王とされたが、彼についてあかしをして、『わたしはエッサイの子ダビデを見つけた。彼はわたしの心にかなった人で、わたしの思うところを、ことごとく実行してくれるであろう』と言われた。
23 “From [among] David’s descendants, God brought one of them, Jesus, to [us] Israeli people to save us, just like he had told [David and our other ancestors] that he would do.
神は約束にしたがって、このダビデの子孫の中から救主イエスをイスラエルに送られたが、
24 Before Jesus began his work, John [the Baptizer] preached to all of our Israeli people [who came to him. He told them] that they should turn away from their sinful behavior [and ask God to forgive them. Then he] would baptize them.
そのこられる前に、ヨハネがイスラエルのすべての民に悔改めのバプテスマを、あらかじめ宣べ伝えていた。
25 When John was about to finish the work [that God gave him to do], he frequently said [to the people], ‘Do you think [RHQ] that I am [the Messiah whom God promised to send]? No, I am not. But listen! The Messiah will [soon] come. [He is so much greater than I am that] I am not [even] important enough to be his slave [MET].’”
ヨハネはその一生の行程を終ろうとするに当って言った、『わたしは、あなたがたが考えているような者ではない。しかし、わたしのあとから来るかたがいる。わたしはそのくつを脱がせてあげる値うちもない』。
26 “Fellow Israelis, you who are descendants of Abraham, and [you non-Jewish people who] also worship God, [please listen! It is] to [all of] us that [God] has sent the message about [how he] saves people.
兄弟たち、アブラハムの子孫のかたがた、ならびに皆さんの中の神を敬う人たちよ。この救の言葉はわたしたちに送られたのである。
27 The people who were living in Jerusalem and their rulers did not realize that this man [Jesus was the one whom God had sent to save them]. Although messages from [MTY] the prophets have been read [aloud] {someone has read [aloud] messages from [MTY] the prophets} every (Sabbath/Jewish day of rest), they did not understand [what the prophets wrote about the Messiah. So] the [Jewish leaders] condemned Jesus [to die], which was just like the prophets predicted.
エルサレムに住む人々やその指導者たちは、イエスを認めずに刑に処し、それによって、安息日ごとに読む預言者の言葉が成就した。
28 [Many people accused Jesus of doing wicked things], but they could not prove that he had done anything for which he deserved to die. They insistently asked Pilate [the governor] to command that Jesus be executed {to command soldiers to execute Jesus}. [So Pilate did what they asked him to do].
また、なんら死に当る理由が見いだせなかったのに、ピラトに強要してイエスを殺してしまった。
29 They did [to Jesus] all the things that [the prophets long ago had] written [that people would do to] him. [They killed Jesus by nailing him to a cross. Then] his body was taken {[some people took] his body} down from the cross and placed it in a tomb.
そして、イエスについて書いてあることを、皆なし遂げてから、人々はイエスを木から取りおろして墓に葬った。
30 However, God (raised him from the dead/caused him to live again after he had died)
しかし、神はイエスを死人の中から、よみがえらせたのである。
31 and for many days he [repeatedly] appeared to [his followers] who had come along with him from Galilee [province] to Jerusalem. Those [who saw him] are telling the [Jewish] people about him now.”
イエスは、ガリラヤからエルサレムへ一緒に上った人たちに、幾日ものあいだ現れ、そして、彼らは今や、人々に対してイエスの証人となっている。
32 “[Right] now we [two] are proclaiming to you this good message. We want to tell you that God has fulfilled what he promised to [our Jewish] ancestors!
わたしたちは、神が先祖たちに対してなされた約束を、ここに宣べ伝えているのである。
33 He has now done that for us [(inc) who are] their descendants, [and also for you who are not Jews], by causing Jesus to live again. That is just like what [David] wrote in the second Psalm that [God said when he was sending his Son], You [(sg)] are my Son; Today I have shown everyone [that I really am] your Father.
神は、イエスをよみがえらせて、わたしたち子孫にこの約束を、お果しになった。それは詩篇の第二篇にも、『あなたこそは、わたしの子。きょう、わたしはあなたを生んだ』と書いてあるとおりである。
34 [God] has (raised [the Messiah] from the dead/caused [the Messiah] to live again after he had died) and will never let him die again. [Concerning that, God] said [to our Jewish ancestors], ‘I will surely help you, as I [promised] David [that I would do].’
また、神がイエスを死人の中からよみがえらせて、いつまでも朽ち果てることのないものとされたことについては、『わたしは、ダビデに約束した確かな聖なる祝福を、あなたがたに授けよう』と言われた。
35 So [in writing] another [Psalm, David] said this [to God about the Messiah]: ‘Because I am devoted to you and always obey [you, when I die] you [(sg)] will not let my body decay.’
だから、ほかの箇所でもこう言っておられる、『あなたの聖者が朽ち果てるようなことは、お許しにならないであろう』。
36 While David was living, he did what God wanted him to do. And when he died [EUP], his [body] was buried, [as] his ancestors’ [bodies had been buried], and his body decayed. [So he could not have been speaking about himself in this Psalm].
事実、ダビデは、その時代の人々に神のみ旨にしたがって仕えたが、やがて眠りにつき、先祖たちの中に加えられて、ついに朽ち果ててしまった。
37 [Instead, he was speaking about Jesus. Jesus also died], but God (raised him from the dead/caused him to live again), and [therefore] his body did not decay.”
しかし、神がよみがえらせたかたは、朽ち果てることがなかったのである。
38 “Therefore, [my] fellow Israelis [and other friends], it is important for you to know that [we(exc)] are declaring to you [that God] can forgive you for your sins as a result of [what] Jesus [has done]. Because of [what] Jesus [has done], [God] considers that everyone who believes [in Jesus] is no longer guilty (OR, the record has been erased {[God] has erased the record}) concerning everything that they [have done that displeased God. But] when [God] does [that for you], it is not as a result of [your obeying] the laws [that] Moses [wrote].
だから、兄弟たちよ、この事を承知しておくがよい。すなわち、このイエスによる罪のゆるしの福音が、今やあなたがたに宣べ伝えられている。そして、モーセの律法では義とされることができなかったすべての事についても、
信じる者はもれなく、イエスによって義とされるのである。
40 Therefore be careful that [God] does not judge you [MTY], as one of the prophets said [MTY] that God would do!
だから預言者たちの書にかいてある次のようなことが、あなたがたの身に起らないように気をつけなさい。
41 [The prophet wrote that God said], You who ridicule [me], you will [certainly] be astonished [when you see what I am doing], and [then] you will be destroyed. You will be astonished because I will do something [terrible to you] while you are living. You would not believe [that I would do that] even though someone told you!”
『見よ、侮る者たちよ。驚け、そして滅び去れ。わたしは、あなたがたの時代に一つの事をする。それは、人がどんなに説明して聞かせても、あなたがたのとうてい信じないような事なのである』」。
42 After Paul [finished speaking], while he and Barnabas were leaving the Jewish meeting place, [many of] the people there repeatedly requested that on the next (Sabbath/Jewish day of rest) [the two of them] should speak to them [again] about those things [that Paul had just told them].
ふたりが会堂を出る時、人々は次の安息日にも、これと同じ話をしてくれるようにと、しきりに願った。
43 After they began to leave [that meeting], many [of them] went along with Paul and Barnabas. They consisted of Jews and also of non-Jews who had accepted the things that the Jews believe. Paul and Barnabas continued talking to them, and were urging them to continue [believing the message that] God kindly [forgives people’s sins because of what Jesus did].
そして集会が終ってからも、大ぜいのユダヤ人や信心深い改宗者たちが、パウロとバルナバとについてきたので、ふたりは、彼らが引きつづき神のめぐみにとどまっているようにと、説きすすめた。
44 On the next Jewish rest day, most of the [people in Antioch came to] the Jewish meeting place to hear [Paul and Barnabas] speak about the Lord [Jesus].
次の安息日には、ほとんど全市をあげて、神の言を聞きに集まってきた。
45 But [the leaders of] [SYN] the Jews became extremely jealous, because they saw that large crowds of [non-Jewish people were coming to hear Paul and Barnabas. So] they began to contradict the things that Paul was saying [and also] to insult [him].
するとユダヤ人たちは、その群衆を見てねたましく思い、パウロの語ることに口ぎたなく反対した。
46 Then, speaking very boldly, Paul and Barnabas said [to those Jewish leaders], “[We two] had to speak the message from God [about Jesus] to you [Jews] first [before we proclaim it to non-Jews, because God commanded us to do that. But] you are rejecting God’s message. [By doing that], you have shown that you are not worthy (to have eternal life/to live eternally [with God]). [Therefore], we are leaving [you, and now we] will go to the non-Jewish people [to tell them the message from God]. (aiōnios g166)
パウロとバルナバとは大胆に語った、「神の言は、まず、あなたがたに語り伝えられなければならなかった。しかし、あなたがたはそれを退け、自分自身を永遠の命にふさわしからぬ者にしてしまったから、さあ、わたしたちはこれから方向をかえて、異邦人たちの方に行くのだ。 (aiōnios g166)
47 [We are doing that also] because the Lord [God] has commanded us [to do it]. He said to us, ‘I have appointed you [to reveal things about me] to non-Jewish people [MET] that will be [like] a light to them. [I have appointed] you to tell people everywhere [MTY] in the world [about the one who came] to save [them].’”
主はわたしたちに、こう命じておられる、『わたしは、あなたを立てて異邦人の光とした。あなたが地の果までも救をもたらすためである』」。
48 While the non-Jewish people were listening [to those words], they began to rejoice, and they repeatedly said that the message about the Lord [Jesus] was wonderful. And all of the non-Jewish people whom [God] had chosen (to have eternal [life/to live eternally with God]) believed [the message about the Lord Jesus]. (aiōnios g166)
異邦人たちはこれを聞いてよろこび、主の御言をほめたたえてやまなかった。そして、永遠の命にあずかるように定められていた者は、みな信じた。 (aiōnios g166)
49 [At that time, many of the believers] traveled around throughout that region. As they did that, they were proclaiming the message about the Lord [Jesus] [MTY].
こうして、主の御言はこの地方全体にひろまって行った。
50 However, [some leaders of] [SYN] the Jews incited the most important men in the city, and [some] important/influential women who had accepted what the Jews believe, to oppose [Paul and Barnabas. So those non-Jewish people] incited [other people also] to persecute Paul and Barnabas. As a result they expelled the two men from their region.
ところが、ユダヤ人たちは、信心深い貴婦人たちや町の有力者たちを煽動して、パウロとバルナバを迫害させ、ふたりをその地方から追い出させた。
51 So, [as the two apostles were leaving, they] shook the dust from their feet [to show those Jewish leaders that God had rejected them and would punish them. They left Antioch] and went to Iconium [city].
ふたりは、彼らに向けて足のちりを払い落して、イコニオムへ行った。
52 Meanwhile, the believers [in Antioch] continued to rejoice greatly, and they continued to be completely controlled by the Holy Spirit.
弟子たちは、ますます喜びと聖霊とに満たされていた。
