Acts 8
1 Then some men who revered God buried Stephen’s body in a tomb, and they mourned greatly and loudly for him. On that same day [people] started severely persecuting the believers [who were living] in Jerusalem. So most [of the believers] fled [to other places] throughout Judea and Samaria [provinces]. The apostles were the only [believers who remained in Jerusalem].
サウロは彼の殺さるるを可しとせり。その日エルサレムに在る教會に對ひて大なる迫害おこり、使徒たちの他は皆ユダヤ及びサマリヤの地方に散さる。
敬虔なる人々ステパノを葬り、彼のために大に胸 打てり。
3 While the people were killing Stephen, Saul was there approving of their killing Stephen. So Saul [also] began trying to destroy the group of believers. He entered houses one by one, he dragged away men and women [who believed in Jesus], and then he [arranged for] them to be put in prison.
サウロは教會をあらし、家々に入り男女を引出して獄に付せり。
4 The believers who had left Jerusalem went to different places, where they continued preaching the message about Jesus.
ここに散されたる者ども歴 巡りて御言を宣べしが、
5 [One of those believers whose name was] Philip went down [from Jerusalem] to a city in Samaria [province]. There he was telling [the people that Jesus is] [MTY] the Messiah.
ピリポはサマリヤの町に下りてキリストの事を傳ふ。
6 Many people there heard Philip [speak] and saw the miraculous things that he was doing. So they all (paid close attention to/listened carefully to) his words.
群衆ピリポの行ふ徴を見 聞して、心を一つにし、謹みて其の語る事どもを聽けり。
7 For [example, when Philip commanded] evil spirits who controlled many people [that they should come out of them], they came out, while those spirits screamed. Also, many people who were paralyzed and [many others] who were lame were healed.
これ多くの人より、之に憑きたる穢れし靈、大聲に叫びて出で、また中風の者と跛者と多く醫されたるに因る。
8 So [many people] [MTY] in that city greatly rejoiced.
この故にその町に大なる勸喜おこれり。
9 There was a man in that city whose name was Simon. He had been practicing sorcery for a long time, and he had been amazing the people in Samaria [province by doing that]. He continually claimed that he was a great/important person.
ここにシモンといふ人あり、前にその町にて魔術を行ひ、サマリヤ人を驚かして自ら大なる者と稱へたり。
10 All the people there, both ordinary and important people, listened to him. [Various ones of] them were saying, “This man works in extremely powerful ways [because] God has caused him to be a great [person].”
小より大に至る凡ての人つつしみて之に聽き『この人は、いわゆる神の大能なり』といふ。
11 They continued to listen to him carefully, because for a long time he had astonished them by practicing sorcery.
かく謹みて聽けるは、久しき間その魔術に驚かされし故なり。
12 But then they believed Philip’s [message] when he preached to them about [how] God desires to rule [MET] [the lives of people who believe in him], and about Jesus being the Messiah [MTY]. Both the men and the women who believed in Jesus were baptized. {[Philip] was baptizing both the men and the women [who had come to believe in Jesus]}.
然るにピリポが、神の國とイエス・キリストの御名とに就きて宣傳ふるを人々 信じたれば、男女ともにバプテスマを受く。
13 Simon himself believed [Philip’s message] and, after he was baptized {after [Philip] baptized him}, he began to constantly accompany Philip. Simon was continually amazed because he often saw [Philip] doing many kinds of miraculous things.
シモンも亦みづから信じ、バプテスマを受けて、常にピリポと偕に居り、その行ふ徴と、大なる能力とを見て驚けり。
14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that [many people] [PRS] [throughout] Samaria [district] had believed the message from God [about Jesus], they sent Peter and John there.
エルサレムに居る使徒たちは、サマリヤ人、神の御言を受けたりと聞きて、ペテロとヨハネとを遣したれば、
15 When Peter and John arrived in Samaria, they prayed for those [new believers] in order that the Holy Spirit’s [power] would come to them.
彼ら下りて人々の聖 靈を受けんことを祈れり。
16 [Peter and John realized that] the Holy Spirit had not yet begun to empower any of them. They had been baptized {[Philip] had baptized them} [because they had believed] in [MTY] the Lord Jesus, [but they did not know about the Holy Spirit].
これ主イエスの名によりてバプテスマを受けしのみにて、聖 靈いまだ其の一人にだに降らざりしなり。
17 [Then Peter and John] placed their hands on [the heads of] each person, and they received the [power of] [MTY] the Holy Spirit.
ここに二人のもの彼らの上に手を按きたれば、みな聖 靈を受けたり。
18 Simon saw [things that convinced him] that [God] had given the Spirit’s [power to people] as a result of the apostles placing their hands on them. So he offered [to give] money to the apostles,
使徒たちの按手によりて其の御靈を與へられしを見て、シモン金を持ち來りて言ふ、
19 saying, “Enable me also to do what [you are doing], so that everyone on whom I place/put my hands may receive the Holy Spirit’s [power].”
『わが手を按くすべての人の聖 靈を受くるやうに、此の權威を我にも與へよ』
20 But Peter said to him, “May you [(sg)] and your money go to hell, because you [mistakenly] think that you can buy [from us] what God [alone] gives to [people] (questioned)
ペテロ彼に言ふ『なんぢの銀は汝とともに亡ぶべし、なんぢ金をもて神の賜物を得んと思へばなり。
21 [God] has not authorized you to have any part of this ministry of giving [the Holy Spirit’s power], because he knows that you are not thinking rightly! (OR, because he knows that you are thinking completely wrongly.)
なんぢは此の事に關係なく干與なし、なんぢの心、神の前に正しからず。
22 So stop thinking wickedly [like] that, and plead that the Lord, if he is willing, will forgive you [for what] you [wickedly] thought/planned [to do]
然ればこの惡を悔改めて主に祈れ、なんぢが心の念あるひは赦されん。
23 [Turn away from your evil ways], because I perceive that you [(sg)] are extremely envious of [us], and you [are] a slave of your [continual desire to do evil! God will certainly punish you severely]!”
我なんぢが苦き膽汁と不義の繋とに居るを見るなり』
24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord [God] that [he] will not do to me what you just said!”
シモン答へて言ふ『なんぢらの言ふ所のこと一つも我に來らぬやう、汝ら我がために主に祈れ』
25 After [Peter and John] told [people there] what they knew personally [about the] Lord [Jesus] and declared to them the message about Jesus, they both returned to Jerusalem. [Along the way] they preached the good message [about Jesus to people] in many villages in Samaria [province].
かくて使徒たちは證をなし、主の御言を語りて後、サマリヤ人の多くの村に福音を宣傳へつつエルサレムに歸れり。
26 [One day] an angel whom the Lord [God] had sent commanded Philip, “Get ready and go south along the road that extends from Jerusalem to Gaza.” [That was] a road in a desert area.
然るに主の使ピリポに語りて言ふ『なんぢ起ちて南に向ひエルサレムよりガザに下る道に往け。そこは荒野なり』
27 So Philip got ready and went [along that road]. Suddenly he met a man from Ethiopia. He was an important official who took care of all the funds for the queen [of] Ethiopia. [In his language people called their queen] Candace. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship [God],
ピリポ起ちて往きたれば、視よ、エテオピヤの女王カンダケの權官にして、凡ての寳物を掌どる閹人エテオピヤ人あり、禮拜の爲にエルサレムに上りしが、
28 and he was returning [home] and was seated [riding] in his chariot. [As he was riding], he was reading [out loud from] what the prophet Isaiah [had written] [MTY] [long ago].
歸る途すがら馬車に坐して預言者イザヤの書を讀みゐたり。
29 [God’s] Spirit told Philip, “Go near to that chariot and keep walking close to [the man who is riding in] it!”
御靈ピリポに言ひ給ふ『ゆきて此の馬車に近寄れ』
30 So Philip ran [to the chariot and kept running close to it]. Then he heard the official reading what the prophet Isaiah [had written]. He asked the man, “Do you [(sg)] understand what you are reading?”
ピリポ走り寄りて、その預言者イザヤの書を讀むを聽きて言ふ『なんぢ其の讀むところを悟るか』
31 He answered Philip, “[No!] (I cannot possibly [understand it] if [there is] no one to explain it to me!/How can I [understand it] if [there is] no one to explain it to me?) [RHQ]” Acts 8:31b-35 Then the man said to Philip, “Please come up [and] sit beside me.” [So Philip did that].
閹人いふ『導く者なくば、いかで悟り得ん』而してピリポに、乘りて共に坐せんことを請ふ。
32 The part of the Scriptures that the official was reading was this: He will [be silent when] they lead him away to kill him [like when] a sheep [is led away to be killed]. As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off {someone cuts off its wool}, [similarly] he will not protest [MTY] [when people cause him to suffer].
その讀むところの聖書の文は是なり『彼は羊の屠場に就くが如く曳かれ、羔羊のその毛を剪る者のまへに默すがごとく口を開かず。
33 When he will be humiliated by being accused falsely {people will humiliate him [by accusing him falsely]}, [the rulers] (will not consider him innocent/will consider him guilty). No one will possibly be able to tell about his descendants, because he will be killed {people will kill him} without him having [any descendants] on the earth.
卑しめられて審判を奪はれたり、誰かその代の状を述べ得んや。その生命 地上より取られたればなり』
34 The official asked Philip [about these words that he was reading], “Tell me, who was the prophet writing about? [Was he writing] about himself or about someone else?”
閹人こたへてピリポに言ふ『預言者は誰に就きて斯く云へるぞ、己に就きてか、人に就きてか、請ふ示せ』
35 So Philip began [to explain] that Scripture passage. He told him the good message about [MTY] Jesus. [So the official understood and believed in Jesus].
ピリポ口を開き、この聖 句を始としてイエスの福音を宣傳ふ。
36 While they were traveling along the road, they came to [a place where there was a pond of] water [near the road]. Then the official said [to Philip], “Look, [there is a pond of] water! (I would like you to baptize me, because I do not know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent [you] from baptizing me.}/Do you know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent [you] from baptizing me}?) [RHQ]”
途を進むる程に水ある所に來りたれば、閹人いふ『視よ、水あり、我がバプテスマを受くるに何の障りかある』
[なし]
38 So the official told [the driver] to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the official went down into the [pond of] water, and [Philip] baptized him.
乃ち命じて馬車を止め、ピリポと閹人と二人ともに水に下りて、ピリポ閹人にバプテスマを授く。
39 When they came up out of the water, suddenly God’s Spirit took Philip away. The official never saw Philip again. But [although he never saw Philip again], the official continued going along the road, very happy [that God had saved him].
彼ら水より上りしとき、主の靈ピリポを取去りたれば、閹人ふたたび彼を見ざりしが、喜びつつ其の途に進み往けり。
40 Philip then realized [that the Spirit had miraculously taken him to] Azotus [town]. While he traveled around [in that region], he continued proclaiming the message [about Jesus] in all the towns [between Azotus and Caesarea. And he was still proclaiming] it when he finally arrived in Caesarea [city].
かくてピリポはアゾトに現れ、町々を經て福音を宣傳へつつカイザリヤに到れり。
